tokyorevelation9

To all Princeton 2011 prospectives,

I just wanted to tell you that I know that many of you are excited to about Princeton, although you also applied and were accepted to other great schools and you just have to "see it to believe it". If you are interested in visiting Princeton as a participant in April Hosting this year, OR during any other time up until the start of May (this is for you Princeton ED admits!), I extend my invitation as a member of the Great Class of 2010.

I am an extremely loyal Tiger, so be warned that I am prepared to indoctrinate you with as much Princeton propaganda as possible. No I'm just kidding, I will honestly strive to give you a real picture into what this school is like, the good and the bad, so that you can make the best informed decision you can make at this crucial juncture in your academic career.

If you are interested in music, I can certainly tell you a lot about the music scene here, being a member of the Princeton University Band (the Plaid-est Band on Earth!).

More importantly, my major interests are in biology, ecology, evolution and environmental science, and I'm looking to pursue my degree in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. If you are at all interested in E&EB, Molecular Biology, Geosciences, or Environmental Science, I would love to tell you about what Princeton has to offer in these areas on-campus and also abroad.

If you are of the Jewish faith, I am a practicing conservative Jew and I take many of my meals at the Center for Jewish Life. I would be very willing to show you what the diverse Jewish scene is like here at Old Nassau.

Most importantly, you will get to stay in my beautiful 154 sq. ft. single in a quintessential Princeton dormitory Walker Hall, a part of Wilson College, and the home of the Einstein Walk, the Footnotes A Capella group, and of Raj and Steve (the best RCAs in Wilson without a doubt) in their room, Club 211, and you may even get to play the mysterious game of "two-ball" with the Princeton Band.


If you are interested in any of this, ED or RD, please PM me and I will try my best to find a time that is mutually good for me to host you. Time is of the essence here.

Hope to see you soon,

tokyo

tedsfrozenhead

What do you know about the Integrated Science Curriculum. It looks fascinating, but it's also a double course with quite a few meetings per week. Do you know anybody who is taking it, and, if so, do they like it?

tokyorevelation9

The Integrated Science Curriculum is very interesting indeed, and its also a very tough set of courses. Professors Botstein and Bialek are not to be taken lightly, and the ISC will easily make up half of your course workload by itself, but everyone who has taken the ISC courses say that they absolutely love the material and the professors, and they wouldn't have done it any other way.

Take a look at this article and this website about the Integrated Science Curriculum and see what you think:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/a...ction=featured

This is from the Daily Princetonian:
http://prince-web1.princeton.edu/arc...ws/11522.shtml

This is the Lewis-Sigler Institute's Website talking about the Integrated Science Curriculum:
http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/topics/undergrad.html

Basically, the ISC sequence is a combination of chemistry, physics, molecular biology and computer science. The freshman sequence focuses more on chemistry, physics, and computer science, and the sophomore sequence focuses on mol bio and computational genetics. You basically develop skill sets in each of these fields in the lab, and you design a lot of experiments using computer modeling techniques, and analyze your results with computer programs. A lot of students who do ISC also do Quantitative and Computational Biology (QCB) which is also headed by Dr. Botstein.

I hope this helps,

tokyorevelation9

ec1234

They are switching around the sequence next year, to have more biology freshman year than previously, and moving some of the quantum physics to sophomore fall.

PM with more specific questions about the program, if youd like

murkywater

Wow, tokyo! If I get in next year, I'm definitely going to take up your offer

frozen-tears

Hehehe by the way, murkywater, if you visit Princeton during move-in weekend in September, people might mistake you for a new froshling. It happened to me last year.

elchingon9

I can go because princeton is gonna pay for me to visit cuz i don't have the money to visit. That is so pimp.

Greg_OotM

thats interesting, I got a thing from Yale that they would fund up to $500 for me to visit them, but nothing from Princeton. I must have just made the cut-off for Yale, but not Princeton. Too bad I live only a little more than an hour from Yale and don't need it.

skysongx

If you need it and were qualified from Yale to receive funding to visit, I'm sure Princeton will give it to you as well. Just give financial aid a call.

x3rose

hmm, question, how are you all carrying sleeping bags/pillows on the flight (if you are flying)? check them in since it's too big for carryon? it's so bulky and inconvenient

but yeah, princeton's flying me over too im excited!

j07

Yeah x3rose I was thinking about this too. When I visited USC, I crammed my sleeping bag and pillow into a big duffel bag and then just checked that in addition to my suitcase. It worked pretty well, you just have to squeeze everything in tightly. I think if you just checked a sleeping bag by itself it would come all unraveled, so if you can try to do what I'm doing it might work.

I wish Princeton was paying for my flight! I got an amazing financial aid package there, and Dartmouth, Duke, and Stanford offered to pay me to visit, but no such luck with Princeton...

x3rose

okay thanks! lol, i was thinking of that too.. i'm the worst sleeping back roller upper everrr. i fail miserably at it.

awww, are you visiting those three other schools as well? that's a lot of flying!

Lord Asquith

Anyone that got a paid flight to another school should give the Princeton financial aid or admissions office a call - Princeton is generally very willing to help with these things.

Just make sure you visit.

elchingon9

x3rose where you from in California
cuz ima fly as well
im from orange county