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The results are in. The Princeton admission office made 697 students (plus their parents) very happy today. Of the 3,810 students who applied to Princeton for the single-choice early action (SCEA) deadline, 18.3% were accepted–slightly more selective than last year’s 21.1%. You can read more statistics on the Princeton website, but The Ink is here to give you a more personal introduction to who will–and won’t–be making up the Great Class of 2017 (woah, you kids are young!).

We take you now on a tour of some of the highlights of applicants’ reactions, as posted in the College Confidential “Official Princeton University 2017 SCEA Results” forum. Yes, that’s a real page.

Why was this kid rejected? Because, in his words,

I’m surprised this one didn’t get in. Maybe in regular decision: 

This kid applied SEAC, got in, and is still hoping for an HYP three-peat. Doesn’t SCEA mean you really want to go to the place?

Pretty sure these guys have more impressive resumes than I do. (Seriously. Independent work? Getting a head start on your thesis?) Example #1:

Example #2:

Classic I’m So Awesome They Couldn’t Not Take Me post. (They took him. He’s from Alaska. Also, he has no weaknesses.):

And finally, in true orange-and-black style, some alcohol-induced happiness:

Dec 19, 2012

Welcome to Princeton, Baby Tigers

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CAP PRESIDENT ALEC EGAN SPENDS HIS DAYS RUNNING INTO THINGS, WISHES PRINCETON HAD MORE FAST FOOD, LIKED HIS JUNIOR SEMINAR, AND MIGHT END UP IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Name: Alec C. Egan
Hometown: Abilene, Texas
Major: History
Club and Residential College Affiliation: The Illustrious Cap and Gown Club and The Woodrow Wilson College of Destiny

What did you do this past summer? Bench, Squat, Clean.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? Dr. Jon Osterman

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Lamb BLT and an Oatmeal Cookie Stout from Triumph

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Run head first into things, sometimes school work, sometimes food, sometimes doors, but mostly people.

Favorite spot in Cap? Kegerator

What club did you think you’d be in as a freshman and why? Cottage

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Restaurant Impossible

If you could change one thing about Princeton, what would it be? Proximity to fast food

What’s hanging above your desk and/or bed? Texas Flag

What is your biggest fear? Global shortage of steak

Favorite class you’ve taken? Toss up between SOC 250: Western Way of War and HIS 400: Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the Special Relationship

What’s your drink? Whiskey-Dr. Pepper

What’s your personal anthem? Fat-Bottomed Girls

Who is your mortal enemy? Walter Snook

When’s bedtime? I’ll sleep when I’m dead

Best memory in your club? Kitchen Parties

Worst memory in your club? Well if I remembered it, it wouldn’t be the worst

Which club do you frequent the most besides your own? Cottage, Cloister and Cannon.

In 25 years, you will be… either in the white house or a white castle

What makes someone a Cap member? Food obsession, conversation proliferation, and love of relaxation

What makes someone a Princetonian? “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us” – Winston Churchill

 

Nov 23, 2012

21Questions with…Alec Egan ’13

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TI PRESIDENT BEN BARRON WON’T SLEEP UNTIL JUNE, LOVES BANJOS, IS TERRIFIED OF SARAH PALIN, AND HAS A VERY HIGH TOLERANCE FOR CARLY RAE JEPSEN.

Name: Ben Barron
Hometown: Boulder, CO
Major: Comparative Literature
Club and Residential College Affiliation: Tiger Inn, Butler College

What did you do this past summer? Studied Spanish at Middlebury and convinced Comp Lit to fly me to Morocco.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? T.A. Barron ’74

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Burgers and beers every Wednesday night

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Wonder what the phrase “free time” means.

Favorite spot in TI: Behind the bar.

What club did you think you’d be in as a freshman and why? The Glorious Tiger Inn. It’s full of people who like to have fun for the right reasons.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? Playing folk music, especially if there’s a banjo involved.

If you could change one thing about Princeton, what would it be? Mountains. Big mountains.

What’s hanging above your desk and/or bed? Colorado flag, Montreux Jazz Festival poster, respectively.

What is your biggest fear? Sarah Palin.

Favorite class you’ve taken? Performance Studies.

What’s your drink? Fat Tire.

What’s your personal anthem? Dispatch’s “The General”.

Who is your mortal enemy? Jason Ramirez

When’s bedtime? June 2013.

Best memory in your club? Pickups weekend as a sophomore.

Worst memory in your club? Cleaning up after Lawnparties.

Which club do you frequent the most besides your own? I try to keep it an even spread, but I find myself at Cap and Terrace a lot.

In 25 years, you will be… Hopefully backpacking, traveling, and raising a family.

What makes someone a TI member? Let’s just say it’s self-selecting.

What makes someone a Princetonian? An unfathomable tolerance for songs like “Call Me Maybe” and “Party in the USA”

Nov 5, 2012

21 Questions with…Ben Barron ’13

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For those of you who missed the email, and the text, and the automated phone message, and every weather report for the last week (basically, anyone who has been under a rock for the past week): yes, Hurricane Sandy is scheduled to hit Princeton pretty soon (updates on the Princeton homepage).

Pretty good timing, Princeton.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll run into if you try to do some hurricane stock-up at the U-Store. The bread is out, the peanut butter supply is low, and some kid walked out with cases and cases of bottled water. At 3:30, there were 25+ people in line. Among the things people were buying: cereal, water, pasta, water, salad, water, plastic utensils, water, sandwiches, water, applesauce, water, chips, water, crackers. Don’t worry, Princeton has generators. And a call to Public Safety clarified that the dining hall (Rocky-Mathey) is considered “critical and essential staff,” and will be opened.

Rolling 25 deep

But as of this posting, not a drop of rain had fallen. Come on, Sandy, we’re ready for you!

Oct 28, 2012

Still waiting on Sandy…

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Over the next few weeks, and in no particular order, The Ink will be taking you on a journey down Prospect Ave., colloquially known as The Street . Check back for 21Qs with all eleven eating club presidents.

TERRACE PRESIDENT DIMITRIS PAPACONSTANTINOU HATES SHOWERS, LOVES HAIR DYE, LOATHES 2-YEAR OLD BUFFOONS, AND SWEARS BY TERRACE 4TH COURSE.

Name: Dimitris Papaconstantinou
Hometown: Athens, Greece
Major: Philosophy
Club and Residential College Affiliation:  Terrace F. Club; Rockefeller

What did you do this past summer? Worked at a law-firm in Singapore, visited Greece and helped renovate TFC.

Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional? At tie between Jeff Nunokawa and Kwame Appiah (and Stanley Jordan).

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton? Every meal at Terrace is like a blissful melody to my stomach. (Thanks Olin. Thanks Ben. Thanks 4th Course)

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day? Everything every other college student does, always grateful for the amazing people I get to interact with, sharing in Food and Love and appreciation for our shared mother.

Favorite spot in Terrace. The newly remade pool-room (also known as the Willard Room).

What club did you think you’d be in as a freshman and why? Terrace, because it was the only place on campus that felt like home.

What is your greatest guilty pleasure? P. Adams Sitney.

If you could change one thing about Princeton, what would it be? More people with green, pink, blue and orange hair. (Yes, I just read Joshua Katz’s article and I love it).

What’s hanging above your desk and/or bed? Curtains.

What is your biggest fear? Any and all fundamentalists.

Favorite class you’ve taken? I’d have to say my junior seminar on Freedom and Responsibility.

What’s your drink? Masticha. Good Greek drink.

What’s your personal anthem? Hard Rock Hallelujah by Lordi. Quality stuff right there.

Who is your mortal enemy? Showers.

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21 Questions with…Dimitris Papaconstantinou ’13

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Apparently, today was a good day for Princeton’s football team. The team, which shut out Brown 19-0 today, “Remains Perfect in Ivies.”

Despite the rivalry between the teams, however, our bands are pretty good friends. It’s become tradition that following the Princeton-Brown game each year, the two bands join together for a jam session in the Woody Woo Fountain, Speedos and tubas and all. In case you missed it (and in case you missed either of the bands parading through campus at ungodly hours this morning) here’s a clip:

Oct 13, 2012

Jam Session in Woody Woo Fountain

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Welcome back to the land of the Weather Machine! Good thing the Machine was working, since it’s the last of the great outdoors many of us will get to enjoy once classes start and we start holing up in the depths of Firestone. And what a perfect day for the sixth annual Campus Rec Quidditch Tournament between the residential colleges.

The final match was between Butler and Mathey, and ended when both teams made sprints for Cat Lambert ’15, a rugby player acting as the golden snitch. Sara Ronde ’16, a track runner in Mathey, chased Lambert around Alexander Hall and finally caught her, leading Mathey to victory. “I didn’t even know what the seeker was and they were just like, ‘Run!’ and I said, ‘I can do that.’”

Following the capture of the snitch, the Golden Broom was formally passed from Whitman College, last year’s champion, to the Mathey team.

Spencer Caton ’14, Ronde’s RCA, couldn’t have been prouder. “She’s got great things ahead of her,” he predicted. “You grow up watching Quidditch on TV and you try and practice…This match was where practice meets dedication and dedication meets mastery. All together, that makes the Golden Broom.”

“It looks funny to be running around with a pool noodle between your legs,” admitted Matt Frawley, Director of Student Life for Mathey and also the coordinator of the frosh-week Quidditch match. But the games are “a lot of fun” and are great for building college loyalty and for having some good, silly fun before classes begin. While admittedly happy that Mathey came out as the champions, Frawley is still looking for Wilson College to take home the Golden Broom–Wilson is the only college without a title, and he’ll root for them next year so long as they’re not facing Mathey in the finals.

Sep 12, 2012

Quidditch: The Real Clash of the Colleges

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This week has been a big one for Tiger athletes, least of all because of some impostor-Princeton rowers hitting the boats at Lake Carnegie. The much-anticipated Ralph Lauren fall collection photoshoot, which took place on campus in early May, is finally online, so if you’re missing the Dinky or Blair Arch or the courtyard outside the U-Store, just play it on repeat. (We’d also like to let all nervous 2016ers know that real Princeton students are much happier than the models pretending to be Princeton students).

But the Ralph Lauren rowers have nothing on our real Tiger rowers, who have brought in a medal of each color in the past week. Caroline Lind ’06 helped the US women’s eight win their second Olympic gold in a row on August 2, and Andreanne Morin ’06 and Lauren Wilkinson ’11 brought home silver medals for Canada in the same race. The women’s eight gave Princeton its first medalists of the London Olympics. On August 4, Glenn Ochal ’08 and the US men’s four came away with bronze.

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Week in Review: Tigers vs. Ralph Lauren Crew (July 30-August 6)

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Leaving Firestone to walk back to my room just now I passed by Cannon Green only to hear the strumming of banjos, ukuleles, and guitars and the piercing tunes of an expect harmonica player.

I stopped by for a while to join Rise Up Singing, the folk-singing group that meets once a week in Murray Dodge on Wednesday nights. When the Weather Machine is on they meet outside. Tonight you’ll find them on Cannon Green (until it starts pouring, at which point they’ll relocate under the East Pyne arch) for the sixth annual All Night Rise Up. They’ve been there since 11:30pm, and will be there until the sun rises, so you’ve got time (this clip is just a teaser)…

From the email sent to the Rise Up listserv today:

“Originally inspired by the challenge to sing as many songs as possible, this is the sixth year for this event.

We’ll meet in cannon green, the lawn behind Nassau, with sleeping bags, headlamps, instruments and voices to sing the night away. If you can’t come for the whole time, just drop by when you can. Additionally napping out on the lawn is welcomed.” (TE ’13, CC ’13, LM ’13)

May 24, 2012

All Night Rise Up Singing

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The University hardly waited for the prefrosh to leave before they began setting up for Reunions, plural, with a capital R. Expect to start seeing full fences go up soon, making it impossible to take shortcuts (unless you’re particularly good at hopping the ten-foot-tall wooden blockades meant to keep strangers out and beer-wielding alum in).

Taking down the Prefrosh Tent even the electricity posts for Reunions fences go up

Taking down the Prefrosh Tent even as the electricity posts for Reunions fences go up

Apr 30, 2012

Goodbye Prefrosh, Hello Reunions

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Seen this girl walking around campus today and wondered what bet she lost?

If you missed it, don't worry. Her hair will be like this tomorrow and Saturday, and then again next week on show days!

If you missed it, don't worry. Her hair will be like this tomorrow and Saturday, and then again next week on show days!

The answer to your query is “none”. Maeve Brady ’15 is doing the only thing she knows how to “make my hair stay curly for more than 45 minutes”. And why does she need curly hair? She’s in the Princeton Shakespeare Company‘s production of Titus Andronicus,which opens at 7 tomorrow at the Class of 1970 Theater at Whitman College.

Apr 25, 2012

Leopard Print Curlers: for the Love of the Show

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Spotted: this little guy, hanging out by the food/non-food/utensils collection bins at the Mathey Dining Hall this morning.

Materials used: part of a banana, some Cracklin’ Oats, two Apple Jacks.

Unfortunately, he fell down shortly after I saw him, and one of the dining staff came and wiped him into the food collection bin.

banana person--blog

Apr 24, 2012

Banana Man in Mathey DHall

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