<p>Well who would've thought Intels would get their packet before you guys in the states :p</p>
<p>Hehe, yeah. You guys got decisions earlier too :P</p>
<p>Yeah...I live in NJ (~30-40 mins from Princeton), and I got both packet and decisions after the intls (though decisions were just a few hours later).</p>
<p>But could be worse...I could live in CA.</p>
<p>I'm in NorCal and I just received the packet! :-D</p>
<p>Nice :). I envy your weather down there in CA right about now. Then again, for NJ, we're having a fairly pleasant winter (57 F right now).</p>
<p>Okay, enough distraction on CC. Back to Biology (ugh).</p>
<p>Still no packet for me in Southern California. I heard they shut down a sorting center and the mail is taking longer/getting mixed up a lot... or maybe I'm just gullible.</p>
<p>Hankblalock, I'm in Los Angeles (or thereabouts) and I got my packet this morning.</p>
<p>ahhhhh frozen-tears i am mad jealous</p>
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Look for interesting courses in subjects that dont particularly interest you. The freshmen seminars can be a painless way to meet a distribution requirement in an area that is not your strength.
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<p>Disagree. There are very few good reasons to take a course that doesn't interest you. Granted, if you categorically hate math finding a suitable QR might be pesky, but in any other distribution area there's a good variety of choices beyond freshman seminars. Realize that unlike regular lectures, a seminar is a three-hour long class. Please, for your own sake, don't take one you're not enthused about. There <em>are</em> seminar courses open to all years, so the freshman seminar is not your last chance for the "seminar experience."</p>
<p>That said, there are a whole lot of choices, so it shouldn't be difficult to find one you are enthused about. I loved mine (The Natural History of Food). It was nice to take a course that they put together just for us as freshmen, and I think that some of the best professors choose to teach them.</p>
<p>We don't disagree. I'm not suggesting students take courses that don't interest them. My point is that if you dislike math as a subject but might find a course on the mathematics of dance interesting, then that might be a good way to get your QR requirement out of the way. Similiarly if you hate language and arts but would be interested in a course on Film and War that gets you a LA distribution then you might want to do that. I still think that's better than taking a Freshmen Seminar that meets an LA requirement if you are going to be an English major or one that meets an HA requirement if you are going to be a history major.</p>
<p>Is it true that the the freshman pac sent out contains the OLD freshman seminar book and you dont get the new one until august and this book was just sent to show you sort of what its all about? anyone know the answer to this?</p>
<p>Yes it's true. You won't get to know what the freshman seminars for your freshman year are until August, when you write your application essays for the Fall Semester seminars.</p>
<p>But more often than not, the frehsman seminars kind of stay the same from one year to the next.</p>
<p>Is the freshman seminar book another name for the catalogue listing all of the courses one can find at Princeton?</p>
<p>No, the freshman seminar book is a thin booklet with details about all of the freshman seminars. It's about the thickness of the Quintessentially Princeton book.</p>