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The Curious Incident of the Wednesday Night Sleepers
Thursday, 24 September 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
I received the frantic BBM around midnight. Roommate Steve had taken up residence in the Campbell basement lounge, intent on doing some MAE homework. But something was wrong. “There are two people sleeping in the Campbell lounge,” he wrote. “Very strange.” “Are they homeless?” I asked. “I don’t think so.” The sleepers began to multiply.
- Published in Goings On
Things that used to be better when I was your age… Jobs.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
by Eric Dodds
I remember a time, not so very long ago, when jobs were just these things that old people had to get when they left college. It didn’t sound like very much fun. After all, you had to leave college and go into this “real world” that everyone is always talking about. No more intramural sports,
Tagged under:
Bain, Barclays, Billy Madison, Career Services, employment, graduation, jobs, Lehman Brothers, McKinsey, Princeton, seniors, the real world, unemployment
Campus H1N1 flu cases on the rise
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
by Angela Wu
Sixteen new cases of flu-like illness were identified by UHS within a 24 hour period between Monday and Tuesday, University spokeswoman Emily Aronson said this afternoon. This brings the total number of cases at the University since August 30 to 80. These cases have generally been mild, Aronson said. “These figures are consistent with what
- Published in Princeton in the News
Genius geoscience professor makes it rain
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
by Will Saborio
Today in people who are way smarter than any of us could ever imagine being: Princeton geoscience professor Daniel Sigman was named a MacArthur Fellow for 2009 for his work as a biogeochemist. This means he’s going to receive a “genius grant” and a huge wad of cash worth $500,000 – with “no strings attached,”
- Published in Faculty, Goings On, Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
biogeochemist, Daniel Sigman, ENV, genius, genius grant, geosciences, global warming, MacArthur Fellows, Princeton
The Class of 2012 never thought they’d be on a boat.
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
by Angela Wu
Now that the recession’s over, we can all do embarrassingly ostentatious things! Like charter a boat with two dance floors around Manhattan, which the Class of 2012 did last week. But don’t worry, we’re not getting too classy, here: The 500 sophomores who were on the boat took a convoy of school buses to the
- Published in Goings On
Grades go down, University celebrates.
Monday, 21 September 2009
by Angela Wu
The proportion of “A” grades received by undergraduates finally dipped under 40 percent last year, the Faculty Committee on Grading reported happily today. A smashing success! Welcome back to school! “A” grades made up only 39.7 percent of undergraduate grades given in the 2008-09 academic year, down more than eight percent from 2002-03, before the
- Published in Goings On
Lawnparties: Egalitarian?
Monday, 21 September 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Ah, the night after Lawnparties. The campus is quiet, what with most of the student body still passed out from that 6 p.m. “nap.” The seersucker suit has been carefully hung back up in the closet, and the campus should stop smelling like stale beer around midday tomorrow. (Just kidding, freshmen. It always smells like
A Look at the Class of 2013
Thursday, 17 September 2009
by Brian No
[Updated 9/21] So just who are these cute little freshmen oozing around campus in large swarms? According to Princeton’s admissions office, there are 1,301 freshmen this year, which means they outnumber all other classes! Eek! They were plucked from 21,963 applicants, of whom 2,209 were originally accepted. Thirteen percent of students in the freshman class
- Published in Student Guides
The Freshman’s Guide to Princeton: Dorm Life
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
by Will Saborio
Ah, Frosh Week. A bright spot in the lives of all Princeton students, the sweet collective calm before the furious academic storm of a school year. I see it now: brightly-clad freshmen wandering across campus in gaggles of eight, collectively lost despite three maps in hand; disheveled 20-somethings handing me overpriced textbooks in the basement
- Published in Student Guides
Tagged under:
Butler, dorm life, Forbes, Freshmen, Frosh Week, Mathey, new year, Princeton, Rockefeller, Rocky, things not to do, things to do, Wilson
Swine flu: What to do
Thursday, 10 September 2009
by Angela Wu
If you’re fearing the swine, don’t forget to get your free seasonal flu shot at the University’s Flu Fest clinic, which takes place September 23-24 and October 12. Health authorities have said that they’re no longer doing regular lab tests to determine if someone has H1N1 flu, so anyone with flu-like symptoms will be asked
- Published in Goings On
Sotomayor ’76 officially wise Latina justice
Wednesday, 09 September 2009
by Brian No
Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76–who has already been confirmed and sworn in–was made even more Justice-y yesterday at her investiture, when she was officially seated on the bench. Everyone was there–Obama, Biden, and even Ricky Martin! Sotomayor hears her first oral arguments today in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Representing the federal government,
- Published in Alumni, Politics, Princeton in the News
Princetonians in Mad Men
Tuesday, 08 September 2009
by Brian No
The best show in the world (no, not Gossip Girl) is currently AMC’s Mad Men. Season three just began with much fanfare, and last week, we got all tingly when one of the episode’s story lines involved Princeton folk! One sad Saturday, Paul Kinsey (played by Michael Gladis) and a couple of his colleagues are
- Published in Musings