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Wednesday, 25 September 2013
by University Press Club
To our Freshman and Sophomore readers, You might think that, here at The Ink, all we do is blog silly things and stay up all night with you on Dean’s Date. Yes, we do, but this is actually our side-job. We are members of one of the oldest and most venerable (if we do say so
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People You Meet in Every Precept
Monday, 23 September 2013
by Vivienne Chen
It’s hard to remember everyone’s names in your first discussion-based class at Princeton, and you’ll eventually resort to gesturing to them vaguely whenever you respond to their points (“I disagree with that one“). But with this handy guide from The Ink, you’ll at least remember the horrible stereotype they fit under. (Note: This applies to seminars
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annoying people, engineers, freshman, hipster grad student, people you meet, philosophy bro, precept, seminars
So You Think You Can Dance: Princeton Edition
Friday, 20 September 2013
by Jean Wang
Editor’s Note: I am excited to introduce the first in what (hopefully) will be an ongoing series, SYTYCD: Princeton, chronicling our writers’ experiences trying out for various dance groups on campus. I’m pretty much one of the most coordinated people you’ve ever met. If, that is, you’ve only met people like this: I’ve also pretty
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dance, dancing, eXpressions, so you think you can dance, splits fail, too real, tryouts, work it girl
The Death of the Dinky
Thursday, 19 September 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Update: For a quick recap of the Dinky controversy, check out the Ink’s previous coverage: Video: The Dinky Controversy Explained David Walter ’10 and his Dinky piece for the New York Times When we almost thought the Arts and Transit neighborhood was done for Around 4:30pm, the canopy overhanging the old Princeton train station (aka
- Published in Princeton in the News
Princeton Prof Makes Awesome Intro Syllabus
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Creating a class syllabus is sort of a work of academic art. Some may fancy David Foster Wallace’s course handouts, but Professor Gayle Salamon, who teaches Intro to Gender Studies and a course in Queer Theory, has her own flair for explaining to newcomers the expectations on her assigned essays. An excerpt: Questions that Professor
- Published in Academics
Q&A with The Princeton Horse
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
by Andrew Sondern
ONE OF PRINCETON’S MOST RIDICULOUS TWITTER ACCOUNTS, @PRINCETONHORSE, HATES THE MATHEY MOOSE, KNOWS THE WORDS TO EVERY SONG, AND IS BACK FOR ANOTHER YEAR. Disclaimer: this interview was translated from what would sound like incoherent neighing to an untrained ear. Any mistakes are the sole responsibility of the translator. Age: 21 (horse years) Hometown: Princeton Major: English What
- Published in 21 Questions
IN PRINT: Bad job market spurs undergrads to concentrate in pre-professional majors
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
by Oren Fliegelman
It’s become an almost endless refrain repeated by the news and countless parents to college students across the country: good luck trying to find a job in this terrible economy. Interviews with officials and concentration data from four New Jersey universities show that in order to improve their chances of finding jobs in today’s lackluster
- Published in Academics, In Print, Politics, Uncategorized
Welcome Back To The Top of College Rankings, Princeton
Thursday, 12 September 2013
by Vivienne Chen
No better way to start the brand new semester than to come in at #1 in US News & World Report’s Big Important List of College Rankings That May Or May Not Mean Anything— and for once, we’re not tied with Harvard! The methodology of the US News & World Report Rankings is something as
- Published in Princeton in the News
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cheating, college rankings, Harvard, Malcolm Gladwell, methodology, Princeton, sex, US News & World Report, We're #1