Loading ...It’s true that upperclassmen tend to look down their noses at freshmen, particularly early in the year when they’re wet behind the ears and stumbling wide-eyed around campus. We’re not laughing at you because you’re lost, though, or because you brought a ridiculously huge couch for your 90-square-foot room. No, sophomores, juniors, seniors, […]
Author Archives: Blair H. - Princeton University
Join Me in Rocking the Vote for the First Time
October 6, 2008 - 10:00 am
It’s been a while since a turned 18 and became legal, but I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I have never cast a vote — not for a local, state, or national election. My first opportunity to vote was the midterm elections in 2006, and I just wasn’t informed enough about the House […]
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Comments (4) Don’t Let Slacker Guilt Bring You Down
September 19, 2008 - 10:00 am
As a creative writing major, I’m extremely lucky to have parents who didn’t scoff at getting the arty side of a liberal arts education. My parents are voracious readers who have a high level of respect for the arts, and as a result they can be happy for me, even when my class schedule […]
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Comments (2) The Single (Dormroom) Life
September 13, 2008 - 10:30 am
Part of the excitement of moving up to college is meeting that awesome roommate and becoming BFF for life: you party together, study together, laugh together…stand up at each other’s weddings and throw each other baby showers down the road. It happens for some people.
And it couldn’t be further from reality for many others, which […]
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Comments (4) Who Cheats, and What Constitutes Cheating in the College World?
August 10, 2008 - 5:30 pm
Putting aside the very hairy area of cheating in relationships, I’m wondering about academic cheating. Before college, I attended a very small, liberal all-girls school where everyone knew everyone else and we were all trained to be as “honorable” as could be. We all had to re-sign an extensive honor code each year, […]
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Comments (6) The Olympics Do Not Welcome Everyone
August 8, 2008 - 9:30 am
Sure, if you want to go to the Olympics, you’ve got to be the best at your sport. But for some, even that isn’t enough.
This year’s Beijing Olympics are possibly the most politicized Olympics to go down on the planet in decades. It’s always ugly when politics enter into something supposed to be […]
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Comments (10) Pre-Meds: Who Needs ‘Em?
August 5, 2008 - 11:30 am
I hate to put people in a group based on stereotypes. Really, I do. I fought it for a long time. But I realized after meeting pre-med after pre-med that the culture of pre-med life makes it impossible to survive unless you’re a certain personality type.
I know I’ll make some people angry […]
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Comments (14) Am I A Prude Because I Cringe to Talk About “Girl Stuff?”
July 25, 2008 - 2:30 pm
Growing up, I always had a very large and disproportionate sense of my own dignity. I was not to be troubled by these impurities of the flesh; I buried my nose in books and ignored the swirling talk of the girls around me. When I hit puberty, I felt violated somehow, as if […]
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