Opinion

Most of March of my senior year of high school consisted of waiting: waiting for weeks to go by until college admissions, days to go by until I had an idea of what college?s apparel to order in bulk, minutes to go by until the online portal would let me click ?View Decision.? Time seemed to move like an IV drip: infuriatingly and tantalizingly slow.

OPINION | 04/17/2013

Columnist Conversations: Does the Honor Code Need Revision?

By THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN OPINION STAFF Recently, the Editorial Board suggested that the punishment for taking extra time on exams is too severe and that the punishment should be reduced to a zero on the exam and academic probation.Are there other aspects of the Honor Code that could use revision? Kinnari: The biggest problem seems to be that we don’t know the Honor Code well enough.

OPINION | 04/17/2013

The struggles of reading for pleasure

Senior alert: The following contains idyllic depictions of life after handing in a senior thesis. If you are in one of those departments with tragically late due dates, you have been warned.A week or so ago, I was talking to a history major and an English major about what we were going to do after we handed in our theses.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

Inciting violence

?You are a terrorist.? The line lingers at the end of DAM?s impassioned rap; angry, hurt but also dangerously violent.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

Trivializing tragedy

It is 10:02 p.m. on April 15, 2013. Right now, across the country, dozens are huddled in front of their television sets or staring at open browser tabs of CNN, Fox News, The New York Times and their Twitter feeds, feverishly devouring updates on the situation in Boston.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

The great divide

?Do STEM majors get laid?? Of all the questions posed to me by various prefrosh during Preview, this was probably the only one that required a great deal of thought.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

Our reputation

Susan Patton uncovered my greatest fear. One day, I will grow old. My ideas and dispositions will be outmoded, and the younger generation will ridicule me as antiquated and intellectually feeble.

OPINION | 04/15/2013

The meaning of the marathon

I live on Heartbreak Hill, the last of four slopes infamous for making the Boston Marathon one of the most challenging in the world.

OPINION | 04/15/2013

Letter to the Editor: April 16, 2013

Grade deflationRegarding ?Editorial: Reexamining grade deflation? (Monday April 15, 2013):I'm surprised that in all the discussion of grade deflation, there's one sense of deflation that's generally overlooked.

OPINION | 04/15/2013

The bubble within the Bubble

Housing, I have a confession to make. I know that my contract stipulates I mustn?t change my living arrangements ? by moving my bed or swapping roommates ? without your consent.

OPINION | 04/15/2013

The small things

One of my younger brother?s closest friends attended the prefrosh weekend, and I took it upon myself to show him around a little bit.

OPINION | 04/15/2013

Rap on the rocks

I am a fervent lover of music. It has the power to move and mesmerize because it is more than a compilation of sound.

OPINION | 04/14/2013

Hack Princeton

The word ?hack? has been around for a very long time; the Oxford English Dictionary dates its first use to around 1200.

OPINION | 04/14/2013

Editorial: Reexamining grade deflation

While grade deflation continues to influence the academic environment at Princeton, the Board believes that constructive conversation about and criticism of this policy has declined.

OPINION | 04/14/2013

Advice from a recent graduate

I haven?t been outside the Orange Bubble for very long, but being in the real world has quickly put my time at Princeton into perspective.

OPINION | 04/14/2013

Editorial: Taking advantage of Preview

Welcome to Princeton, prefrosh! If you are reading this article, you have begun to explore the bustling campus that we call home.

OPINION | 04/11/2013

Orange Key entertainment

This weekend, prospective students will stroll across campus in droves, trailing a real live Princeton student doing the trademark Orange Key backwards walk.

OPINION | 04/11/2013

A formula for friendship

Lauren Davis

My grandmother, as she sips on her 5 p.m. gin and tonic, frequently dispenses the following piece of wisdom: “If you have as many friends as you do fingers on one hand, you’re incredibly lucky.” This is a woman who has been happily married for 50 years now and has reached the melancholic, yet inevitable, stage of life when friends begin to pass away, leaving more empty seats at her dinner parties every year.

OPINION | 04/11/2013

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