I needed to temper
I needed to temper (my dad’s) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide…My mom was actually jealous. David Sedaris
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At Princeton I wrote
At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about Between the Acts and Mrs. Dalloway” but mostly about To the Lighthouse. With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. That’s when I decided I … Read more
Children are amazing, and
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that’s nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. David Dinkins
Albert Einstein, who discovered
Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, ‘You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single … Read more
If a student takes
If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs. Daphne Koller
Why would anyone expect
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton. Dan Duva
What’s Princeton doing today?
What’s Princeton doing today? Christopher Allsopp
Her blog was doing
Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine – You are the absolute love of my life, he’d written in her last birthday card – and yet there was cement in her … Read more
The greatest thinkers in
The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University. Carl Honore
At Princeton I gained
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in. Brooke Shields