<p>There are soo many classes I’d love to take next year, and really want to start off college with great courses. Are there any links online to actual student assignments, excluding course syllabi—specifically submitted papers/projects? I think they’d present a great representation of whatcertain classes are all about. I’d also love to gauge how different the writing seems/is expected once you enter true Princeton standards.
Thanks!</p>
<p>You have an interesting idea here, but I don’t think you’ll find what you are looking for. A publically-available database of previously submitted assignments might offer a little too much temptation to students who would be inclined to, shall we say, “base their work too closely on the work of others”. Accordingly, I don’t think you will find anything, unless you find specific friends who will show you their work on a private basis.
BTW, Princeton has very sophisticated technologies for comparing any papers, programs or problem solutions you submit to work previously submitted by others or available on the Internet. Because most work is submitted electronically these days, it’s easy to run everything through filters that will find the couple paragraphs copied verbatim from another source. So the probability of getting caught is high, and they take violations of the Honor Code very seriously at Princeton.
I’d warn everyone not to even contemplate presenting anyone else’s previously submitted work as your own, but I doubt the warning is even remotely necessary in your case. It does not seem to even occur to you that people might use other’s work for nefarious purposes. I’ll bet you are a woman of exceptional integrity. I also suspect you’ll find a lot of great classes that you’ll love – just follow your nose.</p>
<p>Ohhhh, I was hoping this wouldn’t set off a plagarism tone. In retrospect, individual classes must be too specific, andI should have phrased this more properly:</p>
<p>I remember receiving a thesis booklet with hundreds of culminating senior reports. Since these can never be repeated, I’m assuming, but represent a major point of college education/work, is there a database of some sorts to read these?</p>
<p>You can use the student course guide (though I think it might be down right now, since Point got hacked earlier this summer) to see reviews of courses/professors, which might help you choose your courses, but I don’t think there’s any database for past student work.</p>
<p>You can read thesis from the mudd manuscript library once you get on campus, but the resource is not online. A thesis is not at all similar to the work done in a class, since it is the work over a year or two and on a subject of your choosing. There may be web resources with old math/science tests, but you probably have to be in the classes in order to access them through blackboard.</p>