<p>still better than when i said i wanted to go to MIT and i got th response, that stupid TV thing, you're too smart for that (they meant ITT)
and few people here even realize Princeton exists, most just know Harvard adn Yale, and the local unis, thats it</p>
<p>lol ITT that's really funny</p>
<p>No trust me, I learned Greek without prior knowledge of Latin =) But yeah, it is hard, a lot of things to memorize like special case verbs and nouns. (been doing classical Greek for 5 years)
phil: The bad thing with dead languages: You just use them to understand text, not to write text :P I'd go for oboe if I had the money to buy one :P</p>
<p>I was just thinking about people not having heard of Princeton.... Whenever I tell people about applying there, I get: "OOoooh, Ivy League." That's about all they know.</p>
<p>LoL... it's not sth surprising here... I get it all the time. When I tell ppl I'm applying to Princeton, they go "Wow!" Then, trying to continue the conversation, they say, "Is it the one in Florida?" or better yet "You're going to England? Why not Oxford?" LOL...</p>
<p>"Why not Cambridge?" Jokes, I never get that though. Do you live in England?</p>
<p>LoL... nope. What I mean is that, from where I live, many people think that Princeton is in England. And when they think of England, Oxford and Cambridge come to their mind. So they asked me why I am applying to Princeton, but not Oxford.</p>
<p>Ohh, right. Yah, my brother used to think MIT was in England(:))...but that was when we were small kids.</p>
<p>just cuz ppl dont know princeton, doesnt mean its a bad school. most ppl know harvard yale for their grad school and the ppl who went there, like american presidents and such.. nothing to be ashamed of. princeton is still arguably the best undergrad insitution in the world. and if not the best, one of the best for sure.</p>
<p>I stand firm in my beleif that Princeton is the best undergraduate institution in America. It's professors place a major importance on teaching the students, not just lecturing them once a month. Unlike at Harvard, where you hardly get a chance to interact with your illustrious profs, at Princeton you can take your teachers out for coffee at Cafe Viv. or email them at all hours with your arb. questions. </p>
<p>Someone once mused, "Take away Harvard's graduate schools: Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School... and it's rank will fall like a comet." I think it's amazing Princeton is still going toe-to-toe with Harvard in terms of the two highest ranked universities in the U.S., yet Princeton makes the ranks without a boost from their graduate school (which, save for Woodrow Wilson, is very small).</p>
<p>There isn't even a point adding Yale to this discussion, so I'm leaving them out.</p>