5:04 PM EST: Princeton Campus
Empty your Canvas dashboards, send out those last few emails, pry your fingers loose from those keyboards…
WE DID IT!
One way or another, it’s over – and no matter how stressful or relaxed your Dean’s Date was, congratulations to all of us for getting (mostly) through another year at Princeton. Let’s head outside, breathe in the fresh air, take a look around at the spring flowers left over from last month’s bloom – or stay inside and pass out from sleep deprivation. Whatever floats your boat.
To those of you reading this, thanks for spending your Dean’s Date with us at UPC! We hope we were able to distract you a little bit from all the important work you had to do, and we got a great laugh out of your survey responses. Until next year…
Congratulations Tigers, and happy No-Longer-Dean’s Date!
— EW ’24
4:30 PM EST: A special message…
T-30 minutes until the big deadline, folks. We dedicate this (probably) penultimate post to last year’s brilliant and hardworking Press Club Co-Presidents, Hannah Kapoor ‘23 and Anna Allport ‘23!
Let’s face it, it’s been a hard few years for journalism, especially the freelance variety – but last spring and fall, Anna and Hannah put their blood, sweat, tears, and so, so many emails into rebuilding UPC from the ground up. Without them, it’s impossible to know where the club would be now. They showed compassion with each of the club’s members and never faltered in offering advice and support where it was needed, all in the interest of keeping the club alive. So since we’re not sure if we’ll still be alive once this Dean’s Date is over, we current members wanted to acknowledge that and offer our deepest thanks to last year’s brilliant leadership!
To our former presidents, Anna and Hannah: we wish you the best and happiest path from Princeton, and cheer for the bright future of UPC you built in your time here!
– AB ‘26 & EW ‘24
2:40 PM EST: Who’s counting anyway? (jk I am, I’m still in Firestone)
We’re almost there! Time to take a look at your peers’ most recent Google searches 😉
- How to Design a Wheel That Rolls Smoothly Around Any Given Shape – YouTube
- synonyms for evanescent
- Princeton University
- How to create a violin plot in R
- council of europe committee of ministers
- “alternatives to the word said@
- Coffee club hours
- What is the lowest gpa needed for grad school?
- nj weedman’s joint hours
- Tourism statistics in Louisiana
- “starbucks korea ebay”
- acres to hectares
- Il-7
- “Princeton midnight breakfast”
- if someone gives me a lease and doesn’t call it a lease, is it still legally binding
- st paul’s apocalypse
1:20 PM EST: No information
Time’s ticking down. As we approach the final hours of Dean’s Date, I thought I’d honor the professors and preceptors who got me where I am today by exposing (semi-anonymously) their wildest quotes, as per my three-year experience at this prestigious University.
“I can’t read.”
– Creative writing professor
“We know that we live in a society.”
– Psychology professor
“Haikus are more difficult than poems.”
– Psychology preceptor
“Calling someone a dick is respectful.”
– Another psychology preceptor
And finally…
“There’s no information. Just die.”
– EAS Professor
— EW ’24
3:00 AM EST: Bed
Did I sleep write this? Maybe, maybe not.
2:33 AM EST: Corn
Two whole people’s Dean’s Date song of choice was “Corn” by the original Broadway Cast of Shucked. Wild.
— EW ’24
1:29 AM EST: One Fear
Top 5 survey respondents I’m afraid of:
5. RR ’23, whose Dean’s Date snack of choice is “the tears of my rivals”
4. AVC ’24, whose Dean’s Date study playlist is just Megalovania by Toby Fox on loop
3. The two guys FD ’25 overheard saying “Be careful, we’re dangerous” while planning their next casual scream as they walked past MD
2. The two people whose advice for other students on Dean’s Date was “don’t die”
And finally…
1. KY ’23: Where do you see yourself in 24 hours? “Your mom’s house.”
— EW ’24
00:09 AM EST: Mathey Library
What I just witnessed.
– AB ’26
00:05 AM EST: Holder Courtyard
Let it all out.
– AB ’26
11:52 PM EST: Mathey College Library
As the time approaches for students to wail, whether it be in Whitman courtyard or Holder Hall, I thought it was only appropriate to share with you another one of our Dean’s Date traditions – the Band’s visit to Firestone! Enjoy this short clip of the musical chef d’oeuvre some peaceful library goers got to witness earlier tonight.
10:05 PM EST: Murray Dodge
Reporting live from Murray Dodge, I have procured a list of the current cookie spread:
- Pumpkin White Chocolate
- Oreo Matcha
- Matcha White Chocolate
I have it on good authority from an MD baker that the Matcha White Chocolate cookies are the best. They’re going fast, so come by to snag one before they’re gone.
— AC ’24
9:12 PM EST: Genuinely, RIP sleep schedule
I’m worried about some of y’all.
(Jk. I’m also in the 11+ category.)
— EW ’24
7:42 PM EST: RoMa Dining Hall
As we finish our dinner and begin the long trudge back to Firestone, let us contemplate how many pages our peers have yet to write during the night before Dean’s Date:
Average: 9.333333333333333333333
Median: 6.5 (Angry Stats Lover: “Don’t use the median use the mean. The median is so misleading in such a small data set. The mean is skewed by the outlier the median doesn’t give a **** about the outlier” – AR ’26)
Mode: 5
Standard Deviation: “Girl why are you calculating the standard deviation” – AA ’26
Maximum: 20
Minimum: 0
Range: 20
HALL OF FAME:
- “0 lol I’m chilling”
- “5 left but 30 to edit fml”
– AB ’26
7:02 PM EST: ChatGP-Yeehaw
It’s nice to hear words of encouragement from other Princeton students. But most of them don’t have that ol’ familiar drawl I’ve been used to hearing as an Alabamian. Luckily, I know someone who can help with that:
Yeehaw!!
— EW ’24
6:20 PM EST: Guess where I am. Tiger Tea Room 😉
Time to share some verbatims, because why not. At this point we all share one brain cell anyway 😛
“Those who late meal together stay together.” – KG ’26
“I like mochi because I don’t want to use my teeth” – AG ’26
“I need that reminder again that I won’t survive in jail” – Anonymous ’26
“I don’t have the time to nap. I need the time more than the energy.” – KG’26
“Slay Comrade” – JK ’25
“My goal is to write a paper so good I make the Professor cry” – ET ’26
“Don’t use morality as a shield for your callousness. You’re just a jerk who can do math” – ST ’24
“I expected some deeper discussion but people are just trying to survive” – SB ’25
– AB ’26
6:01 PM EST: Still in Tiger Tea Room
– AB ’26
6:00 PM EST: Tiger Tea Room
– AB’26
5:00 PM EST: Patton Hall, no AC
It’s here. The sun will soon set on this, the day before Dean’s Date. But for now… 24 HOURS REMAIN.
Hey, just had a thought – how about instead of focusing on our own deadlines, we at the University Press Club tried our hardest to distract you from yours? And what better way to do that than with our HOURLY (more-or-less) Dean’s Date Liveblog?
Before we get started, consider taking this 30-second questionnaire for a chance to win absolutely no gift cards, but our undying admiration!
See you on the other side… we’re gonna make it (one way or another)!
— EW ’24