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Princeton is not an educational institution. Professors are too concerned with their research to interact with students. Ask Shirley Tilghman why she doesn't go tuition free? Dirt poor kids already get full aid and rich kids don't need it. Princeton is fucking the middle class basically, which just goes to show the logic they use with respect to the students. Princeton's current endowment is $16 billion. Supporting all tutitions would cost the university $250 million a year. Do you know what the returns are on the endowment? Near 20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c}. Thats $3.2 billion in returns. Even if you index the endowment, it would still earn on average $1.2 billion a year. What are they using that money for? Does it not make sense to attract the best and the brightest in order to get the greatest return on human captial in the future? Apparently, Princeton does not value the intellect of the middle class, or it would offer a tuition free education for everyone. Fucking pricks.

Nope. Princeton is great, especially the care towards people who need financial aid. The stress can be high, but hey, it's time to learn, and it's college. It's a work hard, play hard attitude. Now, I'm going out to party a bit. Cause it's tuesday night. And that's what I do on tuesdays. I also dont capitalize the word tuesday.

Don't come here if you can't stand the cold, because it's cold!... a lot!

Overall, Princeton isn't too bad, but I definitely think it's a place I'll appreciate a lot more after I graduate.

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The Eating Clubs: Do not fear them. They are great. You get good food, great and often really creative parties, and a chance to get to know a smaller and more manageable group of people. This third thing is hard to grasp before you're in a club, but it's fantastic.

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I absolutely love Princeton. It's a place where students work hard and play hard. People are serious about the studies but are also overall just great people. I will never forget my conversations here.

Princeton is a really fun place, but it is what you make it. If you want to study in your room 24/7 and get straight A's, you can. If you want to go out and drink every night, you can do that too. There are so many groups to get involved with on campus. If you put yourself out there, you will definitely make a ton of friends and find your niche on campus.

I was vegan and had a lot of trouble meeting my nutritional requirements in college, especially when I was restricted by a dining hall meal plan during the first two years of college. I supplemented my diet with groceries that I bought from a local, organic store called Wild Oats (I think the store is now called something else..), which was about a 15 min walk from campus. Unfortunately, it was very expensive, especially since I had to buy speciality soy products like soymilk, soy yogurt, etc. Though I tried to send comments to the dining hall about including more well balanced vegan meals, they were not very responsive and did not change the food that they offered. I tried an eating club my junior year and though they was more flexible than the dining hall was, it still did not offer me what I needed nutritionally. Therefore, I ended up going independent my senior year and found that to be the best option overall. I personally enjoyed it because I had a lot of other friends that were independent, however, it could be socially isolating if most of your friends are in eating clubs.