<p>Hehe mea, what was ur first dickens book? Great Expectations like everyone else :D. I actually loved that book...while everyone else in my grade had othehr thoughts :)</p>
<p>prefontaine - you seem to have met so many students in drunk stupors. Where are they hiding? why have I never heard of them from Pton friends, or ever met them?</p>
<h2>shrek - Oliver Twist actually. Great Expectations was a close second. The thing I liked best was that he always created such a great concert of characters. Much better than, say, Austen's.</h2>
<p>ooh you read it for school? Man, I never got to do that.</p>
<p>i'd suggest giving the clubs a chance, then, prefontaine. some three-fourths of your classmates will initially join one, and virtually all of them will do the bulk of their partying - to whatever individual extent - at the clubs. i'd hate for you to go into princeton with a massive chip on your shoulder about the clubs and their denizens. i would not, in fact, be surprised if in two years you count yourself a member of a club - a nonselective one, perhaps.</p>
<p>Eating clubs provide quality food to those with deep resources, sure. While I adhere to capitalist policies, a school should not actively promote accepting bicker students with more wealth and acclaim. I understand that they are private entities, wholly independent of the school but they need to go ASAP.</p>
<p>wait, prefontaine... ur an 09'er???? WHY? it doesnt even seem like you even like Princeton...</p>
<p>Prefontaine - Again, there are subsidies provided to make eating clubs affordable to all. I agree with f.scottie - you're entering a college you chose with a really negative view about upperclassment dining options.</p>
<p>I do, I love Wiles and other academic studs but I have no place in my heart for drunk students and priviledged subsets of a group.</p>
<p>"While I adhere to capitalist policies, a school should not actively promote accepting bicker students with more wealth and acclaim."</p>
<p>you're getting caught up in your own vocabulary words, man. princeton doesn't "actively promote" bickering; in fact, the administration would love nothing more than for all of the clubs to go non-selective. i believe it has even offered incentives for individual clubs to do so.</p>
<p>hobbes - I know what you mean....I thought you entered the college you chose loving it, instead of bashing it.</p>
<p>actually i would have guessed u were a zephyr, constantly degrading our institution :D. And that is not true. The best foods are known to be Ivy (bicker) and Colonial (sign in). Ivy is more expensive because they spend a lot more money (but as I have said before, eating clubs offer financial aid). Everything at Princeton can be made affordable as long as you know how to go about it. Nothing is elitist. The bicker clubs are nothing more than wannabe frats. They are at every school and Princeton is no exception. The good thing about Princeton is that bickering does NOT consume your life, unlike rushing. only 30% of the students actually bicker. At Princeton, it is very easy to avoid bickering and just join a sign in club (which most people do) go independent or do one of the co-ops. I hope when you go to Princeton you will like it more than you do now. I hope a lot of your false preceonceived notions will be eliminated.</p>
<p>the "privileged subsets of a group?" dude, you're a prick. these clubs aren't exactly all "elitist," and Princeton has been working to dispel that "elitist" notion. but since these clubs are unaffiliated with the school, i doubt there is anything Princeton can do about it. so, if you can't beat them, why dont you join one?</p>
<p>terrace is more known for its food than is colonial.</p>
<p>Prefontaine - look, get away from this 'drunk students' business. You must have completed alcoholedu if you're an '09-er - at every school,suddenly liberated freshmen students will have their first entirely unsupervised face-off with alcohol. Princeton is not a place for drunk students. You know as well as I that your high school drunks really didn't make it anywhere - just by virtue of its selectivity, saying Princeton students don't do anything but wander around in a drunken stupor is ridiculous. I understand where you're coming from; I don't like alcohol either and I don't drink, but you're undoing yourself in all these assumptions and slurs.</p>
<p>hahahahaha prick isn't censored. prick prick prick.
stupid damn **** **** crap 60 second rule sdfsafdasf</p>
<p>and stop using such big words, we can understand you using normal words... like... cool.... and sweet.... and stuff like that there</p>
<p>hehe sry scottie ur prolly right, colonial is more known for being humonguous =P</p>
<p>hahahaha hobbes. if everyone from alaska is like u i think alaska would be my favorite state :D!</p>
<p>I couldn't have said it better myself, they aren't ALL that elitist as you proclaim. Thanks for calling me a "prick", nice birthday gift. Princeton could certainly do something about the clubs, whether they are in technical connection with the school or not. Tell your comments to the Russians who bore the brunt of German brutatlity in WW2. If they would have joined them, you wouldn't be hear able to get so "drunk and social". A wise man once told me, "dont argue with a fool, because from afar nobody can tell the difference between the two".</p>
<p>Sweet! <-- normal "slang" word</p>
<p>better for communicating than...</p>
<p>Indeed! <-- weird 19th century lingo</p>
<p>okie, so Prefontaine we're agreeing that they're not elitist. Do you have any other concerns about the eating clubs that we can address before this descends into a major spat? We were having some good debate before (er...about 2 pages ago..)</p>
<p>Sorry, I don't intend to sound haughty or arrogant by using supposed "big words". Truly, I feel that it helps with comprehension to use standard language rather than lol, tyte, duude, and other informalities.</p>