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Men of Thesis Beard
Friday, 22 February 2013
by Vivienne Chen
What’s harder: writing a senior thesis or growing a nice beard? Since early February, seniors Will Harrel (whom you might know as the guy who put President Shirley Tilghman in a snuggie) and Daniel Song have been on a mission to chronicle the day-to-day progress of their senior independent work and their facial hair with ThesisBeard.com. As
- Published in Fun
Tagged under:
Beard, Daniel Song, disapproving girlfriends, mustache, Senior Thesis, seniors, Unruly Facial Hair, Will Harrel
The A-Bomb Kid (And How’s Your Senior Thesis Going?)
Tuesday, 05 February 2013
by Oren Fliegelman
Seniors, here’s a thesis idea: how to build an operable atomic bomb. Although it was a junior term paper and not his senior thesis, John Aristotle Phillips ’78 did just that. A less than lackluster student and Tiger mascot, the physics major came across the paper idea as he was trying to think of ways
- Published in Alumni
Weekend Arts Roundup: Intime, Improv, and More
Thursday, 29 September 2011
by Julia Bumke
Two weeks in (doesn’t it feel longer?) and campus arts events are up and running! As the semester goes into full swing, this batch of events is the perfect antidote to daunting workloads and overtired brains: Theatre Intime, Princeton’s oldest entirely student-run theater company, starts its 2011-2012 season with Neil Simon’s Lost In Yonkers, directed
- Published in Weekend Arts Roundup
Let the turning in of theses begin!
Friday, 08 April 2011
by Angela Wu
Here’s some video we shot of the Class of 2011 Woody Woo seniors running into the fountain on Tuesday after turning in their senior theses. Enjoy, but keep in your thoughts those seniors who woke up at 7 am today to sit in the basement of Firestone or bike down to Icahn… who still have
Weekend Arts Roundup: A Capella and Theater Galore
Thursday, 24 March 2011
by Julia Bumke
A big weekend ahead for the arts at Princeton! Give yourself a couple hours to relax after an epically long (and snowy…sigh) first week back: In the mood for a (literally) epic evening of opera? Theo Popov ’11’s senior thesis with the Music department, called Nero Artifex, is an original chamber opera based on the life
- Published in Weekend Arts Roundup
Anonymous Thesis
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
Dearest seniors, As you work through all those intellectual and logistical hurdles of thesis chapter drafts, remember the words your third-grade teacher would chant before every spelling test: “Put your name at the top of the page.” Below is an email sent out to English seniors after one hurried (or humble?) (or ashamed?) senior submitted
- Published in Goings On
What did your senior thesis ever do: CDY edition
Saturday, 23 October 2010
by Angela Wu
Comic Sans gets a lot of crap. But hard-to-read fonts like Comic Sans and Bodoni may help students learn more, according to a new study in Cognition. By “a new study in Cognition,” we mean Connor Diemand-Yauman’s senior thesis. He may have been eliminated from the Amazing Race, but his senior thesis is starting to
How’d You Like Your History Thesis to Undergo a Supreme Court Grilling?
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
by Julia Bumke
As discussions keep going strong about last week’s Elena Kagan ’81 nomination, the White House has announced that it will publish Kagan’s undergraduate thesis from Princeton’s Department of History. This announcement was made after the right-wing site RedState had illegally posted her “socialist thesis” last week; apparently, Kagan (and not ‘ole Nassau) holds the copyright
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
So you want to be a Supreme Court justice…
Monday, 26 April 2010
by Brian No
[from left to right: Kagan ’81, Sotomayor ’76, Alito ’72, and Obama ’85] Do you plan on becoming a Supreme Court justice? Do you plan on becoming famous? If so, do yourself a favor: Write your thesis on the most mundane, non-controversial topic possible. Specifically, don’t write about: Scary foreign lands (i.e. Puerto Rico) Last
- Published in Alumni, Open Letter, Politics
Tagged under:
Elena Kagan, First Lady, Michelle Obama, Senior Thesis, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Nominee
Recommendations to Die For
Friday, 02 April 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
Every year, the University sends out “The Thesis: Quintessentially Princeton” to incoming freshman and rising seniors. This booklet is meant to give students a taste of the thesis-writing process, and it contains the perspectives of several ’02 Princeton graduates and their thesis advisers. As you seniors trudge through the final weeks and days of your
- Published in Alumni, Faculty, Student Guides