The list of climate-change-related numbers is endless. But people don’t relate to numbers. People relate to people. We connect to feelings. It’s much harder to be moved by abstract concepts of danger with consequences 50 or 100 years down the line.
The question is, how much does one year of school increase a student’s employability? For engineers, this difference could be great: Engineers only take “engineering” their sophomore year. However, this distinction doesn’t exist to nearly the same extent for A.B. students.
I was tricked by websites like College Confidential (admit it, you looked at it too) into believing that I would visit a school and suddenly feel a deep, undeniable connection to it while walking around campus. Alas, this love affair never happened. I liked all of the schools to which I was admitted just fine.
McGinley seems to press us, “Wow, wouldn’t it be great, and wouldn’t we be embracing some fundamental aspects of our humanity, if we paid far greater attention to and wrestled with the moral consequences of our actions?” But the answer to that is no. Not if it means a concern with “touchstone” moral values to the exclusion of other deeply-held and fundamental human values. Much of what is great about life is valuable in spite of the moral consequences.
With little understanding of the inner workings and processes of the Honor Committee, students often feel concerned that the committee is not truly a group of their peers or representatives but is a body intent on convicting students. In considering these concerns and looking to make the process both more transparent and more representative, the creation of a jury system within the current honor system would address many student objections.
To win in the interview game — so I have seen over the years — candidates need not only the knowledge and skills that courses and officially sanctioned activities provide, but also a much wider sense of what matters in the world and a honed ability to carry on discussion. But Princeton, as I have known it for 35 years, doesn’t foster this kind of conversation as effectively as many of its sister institutions.
It strikes me as probable that Kagan shares Obama’s constitutional vision, and her reputation among her fellow lawyers is high. But the question of whether she would add to the diversity of the court requires further interpretation.
Sophia LeMaire, Kelsey Zimmerman and Michael Medeiros discuss meal plan options.
The physical and time constraints of college force us to make use of tools like Hulu, but we lose out on some of the fun of popular culture.
Welcome to the Orange Bubble, prefrosh. If all is going as expected, the Princeton Weather Machine is providing you with a few nice days of sunshine and the administration is wooing you with tours and brochures. The administration can’t tell you everything, though, so the Editorial Board would like to let you in on some lesser-known aspects of the Princeton experience.
Medical professionals have for the most part moved away from using “mental retardation” as a medical term because the term was never accurate. That term does not acknowledge the fact that some afflicted people simply think differently and may have savant abilities unattainable by the average person.
Rivka Cohen '12 criticizes the labeling of Israel as an apartheid state and Gary Fox '13 defends Princeton's dining options.
Nov. 13, 9:30 a.m. I rolled out of bed and began my daily 30-minutes-before-first-lecture routine. Seventeen minutes later, I found myself with three minutes for my pre-lecture check-down: laptop in backpack, watch on left wrist, wallet in left pocket, phone in right pocket. I saw my headphones on my desk but set them aside. I was ready.
Google Apps has the potential to effect concrete improvements in the lives of Princeton students.
We don’t need to get everyone to major in math, but we do stand to gain from giving everyone a better appreciation of math.
Princeton’s progress would be hollow if we moved abruptly and without careful respect for the University’s history.
