Category: Campus

Meditations from the Dishwashing Room

“Two weeks ago, after a summer spent clearing plates at a restaurant in Seoul, I donned an orange apron and began my next stint as a food industry worker at the Rocky-Mathey dining hall.”

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The Birth of a Language: An Interview with Judy Kegl

“On September 20, 2017, Kegl delivered two lectures at Princeton on language instincts and sign language. I was able to interview her in East Pyne before her second talk. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.”

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Princeton on Crutches

“There are so many random steps on campus that you don’t notice until they become a barrier. It’s hard to explain the dread that washes over you when you’re trying to crutch from Schultz to Friend in ten minutes and encounter a flight of stairs.”

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The Parapsychologists

“From the driveway, Professor Jahn was visible standing behind the screen door. He did not motion or wave as we drove off. He just watched us leave.”

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Celebrating Community

“Thanks to Princeton, the opportunity was created for the students—but the rest? That’s on them.”

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First-Year Reflections

The Nass’s Annual Collection of First-Year Reflections

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Women in Math

“The issue, then, is that in the minds of female students, math becomes a game for ‘smart people’—and over time, fewer and fewer girls retain the confidence to overcome that perception.”

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Uni-versity

“‘I think I terrify a lot of people,’ Akiva tells me, only half-kidding as he balances his unicycle in the middle of the Rocky Classroom…”

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Streicker Bridge

“Granny began losing her memory. Last spring, she mailed me a ripped-out page of an English course catalogue for Middlebury College. I couldn’t tell if she had forgotten that I go to Princeton.”

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Take Control of Your Body, Smash the Patriarchy

“In December of last year, I finally looked into alternatives. Part of that might have been motivated by an uptick in national conversations around accessible birth control, and part of it might have been that more of my friends were having these conversations too.”

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Princeton Mime Club

After thirty years, one student revives the Princeton Mime Club

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A Fragile Peace

Commentary on Anna Kimmel’s “you’ve heard it before | you’ll hear it again” and suicide across college campuses

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