<p>mentioning dancing… I just found out the niftiest thing ever, Princeton has a performing group called Sympoh for which anyone is welcome to go to the practices to learn to… <em>drum roll</em> … breakdance!</p>
<p>ya! i have friends in sympoh supposedly its really cool!</p>
<p>F. Scott Fitzgerald went to Princeton and wrote his first novel about it!!!</p>
<p>Ooh, which novel? He’s originally from here in Minnesota, what a double coincidence!</p>
<p>Haha, glad you got it 
And yeah, This Side of Paradise. I really need to finish it. F. Scott’s one cool cat.</p>
<p>This Side of Paradise is amazing but basically all of Fitzgerald’s novels are amazing.</p>
<p>Of course Gatsby is my favorite. It’s been one of the few things to make me long for elitism…how stylish, how classy, how vogue can you get? But that East/West Egg were a reality…</p>
<p>Have you read Tender is the Night? Much darker, but also a great novel by F. Scott. I need to read This Side of Paradise if it’s as good as the others.</p>
<p>i havent read This Side of Paradise either but ive heard its good…should i haha</p>
<p>Yah if you’re going to Princeton it’s a good idea to read it</p>
<p>yeah! … it also has some amazing descriptions of what the Eating Clubs used to be like. quite fascinating.</p>
<p>hey - Word has it that Princetonian seniors each get a special reserved carrel in Firestone library; they can reserve books, store their thesis research and documents, and have space for their private use. Perks ahoy!!</p>
<p>Has anyone seen/ heard of this?</p>
<p>This Side of Paradise is really good when actually examined and analyzed. I think that a cursory reading makes it come off as a POS, though ;)</p>
<p>Ian Caldwell (and the other guy, Dustin Thomason or something like that) talked about special carrels in The Rule of Four, so I suppose it could be true. That’d be kind of neat. And a little scary that you’d be stuck in there for hours upon end, but neat nonetheless.</p>
<p>I had a carrel. It was painted hospital green inside and locked with a combination. It was high high up in the library. I was all by myself for hours on end. Best thing is that when you write your thesis you can keep all your books there in one place. Of course, do people still use books:)?</p>
<p>The problem with Fitzgerald is that he actually did not graduate from Princeton and died a pretty messed up guy.</p>
<p>Eh, he was close enough to graduating. He was a great author, though, and that can’t be taken away from him. His works are classics, which is pretty awesome.</p>
<p>During World WAr II Hitler was attempting to develop an atomic bomb and U.S. forces were suffering huge losses in the Pacific. To deal with this double menace the government established the Manhattan Project and turned to the genius at Princeton (Oppenheimer, Einstein, et al and a slew of Princeton graduate students) to lead it. By beating the Germans in the atomic race these Princetonians (with one Columbian, Enrico Fermi) saved many lives and perhaps man and womankind as we know it.</p>
<p>I thought Fitzgerald dropped out because he enrolled in the military in WW1</p>
<p>Please read This Side of Paradise with a huge grain of salt. Princeton is completely different nowadays…i think that novel is just reinforcement of the whole “Country Club Ivy” stereotype. It’s enjoyable but don’t take it as absolute truth :p</p>