<p>going to princeton is an incredibly humbling experience-- if you come from a high school where you are clearly the top, and then you show up at princeton and everyone you meet is incredibly accomplished, it can be rough. I had a rough transition freshman year… but by the second half of the year I loved it. Depending on class choices you can either need to recalibrate your expectations or not… but it was totally worth it, even if I knew that i was no longer the smartest person at the school.</p>