Hey Princeton! Pre-Frosh Edition (2010)
Some highlights (lowlights?) from weekend one:HEY PREFROSH WHO LIKE TO FINISH EACH OTHERS’ SENTENCES! How do you think Princeton is perceived by the outside world?Prefrosh A: There’s like this elitist image –Prefrosh B: Yeah, especially with the eating clubs –Prefrosh A: The eating clubs are this big scary thing that no one understands –Prefrosh B: Because other colleges have frats, which you can understand –Prefrosh A: But it’s not obvious what “eating clubs” should entail –Prefrosh B: Like, what’s an eating club? People eating? But it’s more than that, right?Yeah.HEY PREFROSH ARGUING WITH EACH OTHER! I’m just gonna listen in for a bit before I interject!Prefrosh C: Okay, then what would you say to my friend who got a 2300 on the SAT, worked his ass off for four years and didn’t even get into any of the top schools?Prefrosh D: Try harder.Whoa. What are you guys talking about?Prefrosh C: What we’re discussing is what’s better: the system of admissions into schools in America or the system of admissions into schools in India and China.India and China?Prefrosh C: THANK YOU!No, that was just, like, a restatement.Prefrosh D: He was just repeating the last few words you said.Yeah.HEY PREFROSH SITTING IN FRIST! How do you like Princeton? Good.Yeah? Yeah.What’s good? Princeton.Are you… scared of me? Little bit.Um… what’s the best thing you’ve experienced on your whirlwind tour of Princeton? Princeton.Where are you from? Tennessee. [Princeton’s] very different from Tennessee. People are a lot smarter here.Oh.HEY PREFROSH IN THE TIE-DIED SHIRT! Where are you from? I’m from Princeton. I’m really familiar with the campus. I treat it as my neighborhood park.What was your impression of Princeton students from living in town? Living in town you don’t really see that many students... Most of what I would see would be people at the eating clubs. I walk on Prospect Street a lot because my friends live there. We walk past the eating clubs and see people getting drunk. And you hear stories about people getting drunk. My cousin was in Tiger Inn.[She tells a story] My friend who lives on Prospect was taking a walk, and there was a naked party at an eating club and there were people peeing out the window. And I was like, "Oh My God, Oh My God. Ew! What? I can’t go to Princeton! Oh My God."[She continues] A lot of the people I’m meeting are really, really nice. And, like, some of them were drunk, but I can deal with that.HEY PREFROSH IN THE MUSCLE SHIRT! Where are you living this weekend? My host is in Wilson, he’s in the Feinberg building. The room on the very top floor. It smells, though. It’s kind of like a party room, they say. So it kind of smells like ass, liquor, and puke.