During midterms week, many popular study spaces like Frist Campus Center and Firestone are crowded with students finishing up papers and cramming for exams.
Sometimes it feels like Princeton accepts a bunch of supposedly incredible students just to spend four years showing us how stupid, worthless and untalented we really are.
Last week I won a book in a raffle at one of Rockefeller College's events. The book, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mohsin Hamid '93, follows the path of a Princetonian who joins the world of high finance after graduating near the top of his class.
On Oct. 10, the Korean American Students Association screened a documentary on homeless North Korean orphans, which powerfully portrayed various unimaginable horrors caused by poverty.
The goal of the University's financial aid policy should be to provide equality of opportunity for all Princeton students.
Paul Theroux once said that Bombay smells of money; he said it all. It's a city where an evening party is considered a prime opportunity to boast about your hushed-up close relationship to one of the richest families in India, albeit through your aunt's second cousin's nephew's best friend (but you didn't hear it from me). It's considered normal for a Bombay kid to have a "Contacts" list on his cell phone that includes his driver's cell phone number, at least 15 numbers of important people that he never speaks to and his friend's driver's cell phone number.
If all goes according to plan, you're reading this at nearly the maximum stress point of the semester: the beginning of midterm week.
The problem is glaring: According to the Committee on Background and Opportunity survey, only 38 percent of students who self-identified as low or lower-middle class are eating clubs members, compared to 72 percent of those who consider themselves middle or upper class.
I could not take my eyes off it. No matter how stunning her dress was, how easily she explained the merits of French literature or how bravely she approached the topic of racism, all I could see was the lettuce.
With midterms looming and the recruiting process in full swing, seniors have a lot on their plates. Many students who want to hedge their employment bets in the uncertain economy are considering a broad array of options, including jobs in the private and public sectors and graduate or professional schools.
A common stereotype about black people is that they enjoy eating fried chicken. In February in Beaumont, Texas, Sen.
Columnist Cindy Hong '09 and Executive Editor for Content Development Mike Shapiro '09 discuss Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize in economics, ways to cope with midterm exam stress and two different takes on intellectualism on campus.
Princeton is more than a vocational training schoolRegarding "Why do we even bother?" (Wednesday, Oct.
Daily Princetonian blogger Brian Lipshutz '12 live blogs the final presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) on The Prox.
I would like to propose to President Tilghman, and to the faculty at large, that no classes at this university collect homework or assignments or administer examinations on Nov.
She asked me for my ping, of all things. So quickly rendered a social invalid, I confessed in a whisper that I didn't have a BlackBerry.
