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“Thank you, thank you, thank you”: The Strange World of Senior Thesis Acknowledgments
Wednesday, 03 May 2017
by Francesca Billington
Turn to the second or third page of a Princeton senior thesis to the acknowledgments section. It is usually between the title page and the table of contents, though sometimes the table of contents comes right before. The acknowledgments are typically what the reader will read first, and maybe even last, too, if you’re like
Four Princetonians Win Rhodes Scholarship
Sunday, 22 November 2015
by Spencer Parts
The Rhodes Trust announced this year’s class of scholarship awardees yesterday, and it includes three Princeton seniors and one recent graduate. Evan Soltas ’16, Richard Lu ’16, Cameron Platt ’16 and Katherine Clifton ’15 won the scholarship. The announcements were made after the committee conducted interviews with the finalists from each region all day
- Published in Academics
IN PRINT: The Bernanke Talk
Thursday, 03 April 2014
by Spencer Parts
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke reflected on his experience to a packed McCosh 50 yesterday. The talk was a conversation with Econ Professor Alan Blinder, and the Press Club covered it for the Trenton Times. You can check out the front-page story here.
IN PRINT: Eisgruber looks to the future
Thursday, 26 December 2013
by Oren Fliegelman
As Christopher Eisgruber finishes up his first academic semester as Princeton’s president, he is still looking to students and alumni to help shape his presidency’s goals. In an hour-long interview with the Press Club, Eisgruber spoke broadly about himself, the university, and the next few years ahead. Some highlights: He wants to hear from
- Published in Academics, Alumni, In Print, Uncategorized
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
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
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
The UPC PreFrosh Class Guide: April 22-23
Monday, 22 April 2013
by University Press Club
Among the hundreds of things that prospective Princeton students can do when they visit campus, sitting in on real classes–with real professors and real, live Princeton students!–is up there with finding free food and oversigning yourself on club email lists. But what if the class listed turns out to be a snooze-fest? (You missed ice-cream for this!) What
- Published in Academics
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belt and suspenders, classes, computer science, Courses, Economics, etiquette, Guides, hand-raisers, prefrosh
Honor Code Fail
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
by Vivienne Chen
Sometimes you have to proofread carefully to make sure you haven’t any words out. (Yes, that was intentional.) Especially when it’s the operative word in the illustrious Princeton Honor Code: That said, the student (name redacted to protect dignity) for all we know could have been telling the truth! (Quick! Someone call the Honor Committee! No
- Published in Academics
Course Evaluations: Sucks to Be Physics, Poetry is Life
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
by Jean Wang
While shopping period has already come to an end, it’s still never too early to take a look at the course evaluations from last semester and start planning for the fall (okay, perhaps it’s a bit too early). Luckily, if you were basing your class decisions on our post from last year, not much has
- Published in Academics
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class shopping, course evaluations, east asian studies, humanities, physics, sad science majors, student feedback
Stuff Professors Say On The First Day Of Class
Thursday, 07 February 2013
by Vivienne Chen
While Day 1 is usually just handing out syllabi and making awkward “name-year-major” introductions, sometimes professors get a little bit colorful with their intros on the first week of classes. Sam Wang (NEU 101): “Please, no tattoos or unremovable piercings above the waist in the fMRI. Otherwise those piercings… will become removable.” Darcy Steinke (CWR
- Published in Academics
Welcome to Princeton, Baby Tigers
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
by Abby Klionsky
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
- Published in Academics, Goings On, Princeton in the News
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