<p>I just got back from the Princeton alumni meeting....and I'm completely, utterly, hopelessly- IN LOVE.....with Princeton :o</p>
<p>princeton admission letter, o princeton admission letter, where art thou? :::sigh:::</p>
<p>lol. </p>
<p>Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.</p>
<p>Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.</p>
<p>Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, -
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breat whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.</p>
<p>Hopefully, I'll be one of those swallows but I wont be "twittering" but having a deep sonorous song. lol, sleep beckons</p>
<p>btw the above poem is Keats- what we're studying at my college class</p>
<p>What happened or was said at the meeting to cause such delight?</p>
<p>Probably Princeton alums being creepily enthusiastic about their four years in college.</p>
<p>there was a good deal of that....the nassau-holics (a-cappela group) sang a few princeton tunes....and we did the whole "go princeton, fight fight fight" chants. But mostly, it was the feeling of togetherness, and the smiles and happiness on everyone's face! President Tilghman gave a great speech, and there was a lot of fun and mingling going on. I dunno, when I imagine myself 4 years down the road, I imagine myself graduating from Princeton, going to alumni ceremonies with my Princeton alum friends...</p>
<p>P.S. the whole thing bout 70% of princeton alum marrying each other is sooo true! everyone there was married to another princeton alum!!! :)</p>
<p>there's a group called nassau-holics? I thought it was just the nassoons...</p>
<p>i guess so....i mean, lol, im not making this stuff up :D</p>
<p>or maybe the person that told me they were called nassau-holics was wrong...but i think Tilghman referred to em as the "nassau-holics" as well :-</p>
<p>Were they an alumni singing group or an undergrad one?</p>
<p>....alumni</p>
<p>Oh then it makes sense lol. Nassoons is the undergrad one. Sorry!</p>
<p>no hay problema, my beautiful New York bombshell ;)</p>
<p>:::looks around to make sure no one overheard:::</p>