<3 The U-StoreAfter an unpublicized amendment to USG election policy, freshmen can now run for sophomore class senator. Yay for elections functionality!!! Screenshot below.
Best of luck to Dylan and Shawn.
(To be fair, they didn’t appear on the actual ballot. [I would've voted for them.])
NEW FRESHMAN CLASS PREZ LUCHI MMEGWA ‘14 WANTS TO MAKE FROSH HAPPY, YEARNS FOR A TROPICAL ESCAPE, SEEKS A BETTER AFRICA
Name: Luchi Mmegwa
Age: 17
Major: Undecided, maybe politics/economics?
Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria (But I’ve lived in Accra, Toronto, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta)
Eating Club/Residential College/Affiliation: Rocky!!!
What was your initial reaction after winning the election?
I was ecstatic, I jumped and screamed, all in my boxers as I had just gotten out of bed.
Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
General David Petraeus.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
Braised lamb shanks.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
I meet people, work, and wish I worked out that day.
What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Sushi.
In 10 words or less, what are your plans as freshman class president?
Get people free stuff, plan cool events, make frosh happy.
via ivysport.com
Congratulations, Princeton Class of 2014. You’re better than 91.82% of everyone who decided to apply to Princeton this year! (Makes you sound smarter than you probably are, right? But so does saying we go to Princeton.)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to navigate and survive this insane place that is exciting and great and awful and grade-deflating all at the same time. It’s a wild ride! (To be honest though, we bitch and moan about it but there’s nowhere we’d rather be.)
So in order to make this whole daunting thing a bit easier to swallow right now, we thought we’d offer some advice for you in this time of heady excitement (college!). You’re not here just yet, so be sure to watch yourself. Check out these rookie mistakes:
Congrats again. (Oh, and it’s not like Harry Potter. Sorry.)
Emma Watson at Brown orientation, surrounded by giants. (From flixster.com)
After only a two percent increase in applications for the Class of 2013, Princeton University has been pushing its hefty financial aid package–and it’s working.
The 19 percent jump in applications to Princeton this year was greater than that of Harvard (5 percent) and Yale (Not really a jump, more like a…tiny step backward.), prompting Bloomberg News to proclaim to the Internet: “Princeton Surge Beats Harvard, Yale as Applications Soar.” Hahaha, we won!
But why the competition? Why not some Ivy League bonhomie? Why must we always be bickering like over-privileged siblings in a race to be Mom’s favorite? Am I even allowed to use bicker in this context this time of the year?
So instead, let’s talk about Brown.
College Confidential, virtual home to thousands of angsty 17-year-olds college-prepped to within an inch of their lives, is a pretty easy gauge for the general College Admissions Stress Level. This week’s stress-inducer: The Prince’s annual joke issue–specifically, “Princeton sees steep drop in applications for Class of 2014.” (Oh, Class of 2014…we’re a little worried for you too.)
The take-away: High school seniors don’t care about how high the acceptance rate is! They’re not going to judge you for it, Ivy League schools (and University of Chicago!). They just want to get in!
From the joke issue:
The University received an astonishingly low 10,943 applications for the Class of 2014, representing a 50 percent drop from last year, a stunned Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian on Tuesday. If the University accepts roughly 2,150 people from the applicant pool this April — as it did last spring — the school’s acceptance rate would more than double, to 20.1 percent.
“I will be delighted to be able to offer admission to more students,” Rapelye said. “It’s only good for us. They are so strong and so powerful.”
Reactions after the jump.
