<p>I don't know anyone who's taken FRS 111 - it wasn't offered last year -- but all the second-hand stories I've heard have highly recommended it. As do all courses with the ST designation, it fulfills one of your two required lab science courses.</p>
<p>This is only for the fall. You will be notified of spring courses in November (that's what the letter said)</p>
<p>Aludaughter said cool. And liked the Hamlet or the Brain etc.</p>
<p>Will aludaughter ever be joing us on cc? Is she on facebook?</p>
<p>Good question! And dizzyson! And cookieson! So pretty much all of the kids of these here parentals :)</p>
<p>Aludaughter, like many kids, is somewhat suspicious of something her mother endorses:). And she has not done facebook...She will be on OA however. She might also kill me if I told you anything else. I have to admit I look forward to the day you all meet her. The 2009 EA group was one of the reasons I hoped she would choose Princeton. Here is a hint, look for Buffy the Vampire Slayer clues. Are you guys starting to get excited? The series of mailings is making it feel real around here.</p>
<p>Oh it's like a game! lol and certainly people will be giving us strange looks when we go around asking girls if they have an "alumother" :p</p>
<p>Somebody asked whether it's better to take a course that you're interested in, or a course with a recommended awesome professor. Really depends on the individual case. If it's something that you REALLY don't care about, and no professor could make the material interesting to you, then don't take the course. However, most Princeton students have a pretty broad variety of interests, so in most cases I would say that the "take the professor, not the course" rule applies. Of course, if you can, TAKE BOTH. At Princeton, this should be possible.</p>
<p>Lithographic's statement is pretty much dead-on. I would suggest choosing courses by professors, but there will of course be times where you have to take an ST, or a QR, or an EM, and you don't really know of any good professors in those areas, because you're either leaning towards, say MOL or ENG. In those cases, it's best to ask friends thinking about those departments, or simply taking a course that sounds neat.</p>
<p>For example, although I will probably end up Philosophy or History, I'm taking a course cross-listed between EEB, CHM, GEO, and AST next fall called "Astrobiology." I've heard several great reviews of it, and we get to go to Yellowstone over Fall Break to conduct our experiments (another benefit of this is that we have no labs during the school year). Although I personally don't know the professors, both the coolness factor of the course & the reviews my friends have given it made it sound like a neat opportunity.</p>
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<p>That is supposed to be an awesome course... :-) I haven't taken it, but when we were on our trip to Morocco for Sedimentology (GEO 308), and we had long hours in the van, it got talked about quite a bit...</p>
<p>On that note, once you're on campus, it's a good idea to ask students majoring in a given department what the best courses are there. They won't always be the ones with the shiniest descriptions.</p>
<p>zante - sort of like Where's Waldo. I assume you all had those books too? I refused to read them, too dizzy-making. Enjoy your summers you all.</p>
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of the current professors who are taking the seminars, can you tell me who are the best among them??? also i am interested in:
1) Eco. of env. protection
2) ethics of war
3) sex, money and rock n roll
4) politics n religion in ancient world
are they good????? thx</p>
<p>And is Professor Hitz good?</p>
<p>yeah i was wondering about hitz too...he wrote that "the great game" book and worked as CIA Deputy Director of european ops, but does that transfer into good erudite teaching?</p>
<p>Does it matter whether you apply earlier or later? It's not a first-come thing right? They're supposed to read all the essays?</p>
<p>(Damn, I really don't want to do work during the summer...writing essays seems so long ago)</p>
<p>I'm looking at:
1) Tokyo in Lit and Film
2) What Disney Didn't Tell You About Fairy Tales
3) Dreaming
4) Let's Eat: Food in Contemporary American Culture</p>
<p>Yeah, three of my choices are in LA. I'm a self-proclaimed Lit-hoe. (Not a gardening tool, in case you're wondering.)</p>
<p>we dont HAVE to take a freshman seminar, right? or is it a mandatory thing like the writing seminar? </p>
<p>--David--</p>
<p>It's not mandatory, but recommended.</p>
<p>And chichi, I thought the Dreaming one sounded really interesting too. It's my #2 :)</p>
<p>David: Nope freshman seminars aren't mandatory, but highly recommended.</p>
<p>Phil: I love the subject of dreams. I've actually been dying to analyze and Apocalypse Now in a group setting, but my high school seminar-ish course "History Through Film" wouldn't let us for fear that our Catholic schoolgirl minds would be corrupted (we watched Platoon instead...).</p>
<p>Anyone know if Princeton pays for the trip in the Oceanography one?</p>