Social scene at Princeton

ChicagoMama
Sat, 20 Sep 2014 01:05:40 +0000

With the residential college system of 2 years and the upperclass years - it’s more like your first years are meant to intentionally throw you in with a lot of different types of kids and shake you out of whatever comfort zone you arrived from. The last two years let you gradually form new friendships and alliances based on where your eventual serious interests and comfort levels come to rest. Wherever they may be.

If you make serious friends with sound foundations freshman year - they will stand the test of time. You can also never see your freshman roommate again except maybe once or twice after the first year. Princeton’s big enough.

The one thing you can count on is that if you are accepted - there is a vast common community of kids where there are many who are just like you. Same interests. Same ambitions. Same thoughts. Same fears. Same sense of humor. You just have to find them. Don’t worry about anything you posted about in terms of finding friends and keeping them. There’s no way to come out of a school like Princeton without lifetime friends.