<p>You can get a meal plan over these breaks, but they are expensive. It is probably better to give your S some money, and there are definitely places to eat for cheaper. (Frist stays open, although usually with reduced hours, as does chancellor green/icahn). There is also all of the restaurants on nassau street / the wa/ the c-store. I have stayed over several breaks–even though I only lived an hour away–and was never hurting for food. </p>
<p>A lot of people stay for some portion of intersession, and for some portion of spring break (esp juniors and seniors doing independent work), so the campus isn’t as quiet. Most people leave for fall break, I would say.</p>
<p>ec means over spring break the junior writing junior papers and the seniors finishing up their senior theses are dug into library carrels and labs:). So more people are around.</p>
<p>The calendar says that the break begins “after the last class” on 12/17. Does that mean that most kids go home that evening? Or can they wait until the next day? When does the dorm actually shut down? I read somewhere about kids having only so many hours to get out of the dorm.</p>
<p>On the return to campus after the holidays, there is a “reading period” until 1/11. Do the frosh kids have to be on campus for this or is there flexibility on their return?</p>
<p>So when I went there, the dorms never actually shut down during the school year. I knew some people who stayed over christmas break, or at least significant parts of it. I think that last year as a cost-saving measure they did shut down the dorms at some point? Although I think it was problematic because there was a lot of snow the day that people were supposed to leave. Most people generally do go home ASAP, since winter break isn’t that long, but I’m pretty sure that the dorms are open at least the next day or two-- although it is likely that the dining hall isn;t. </p>
<p>Reading period is optional, although highly recommended. Some classes, like language classes, tend to have classes during reading period (not optional). It probably wouldn’t be a problem to come back monday or tuesday instead of sunday though.</p>
<p>Anyone is interested in Princeton University Orchestra?
Any information you have or any experience you would like to share would be greatly appreciated…!</p>
<p>The easiest way to get to princeton from PHL is to drive-- it’s not very far. You can do it by public transportation:</p>
<p>take septa from PHL - 30th st station
take septa from 30th st station to trenton
take NJ transit from trenton to PJC
take dinky from PJC to princeton</p>
<p>if you time it right, its probably about 2hours, but its pretty easy to time it wrong. The dinky trains line up with the NYC trains, so you can be waiting in PJC for a LONG time, which is annoying since you are almost home.</p>
<p>Not sure if this has been asked/posted before:
between EWR (Nework Liberty) airport and Princeton, there is this Olympic Airporter shuttle bus that runs quite often. Here is the link:</p>
<p>@ec1234, thanks so much for all the information… !</p>
<p>So the train goes between Newark Liberty and the Dinky station of Princeton? Do you get on the train from the airport terminal? Now I think I remember seeing where to board the train by the terminial, but I could confuse it with another airport :-)</p>
<p>@GSharpM7,
Thanks for the information and link, we are able to figure out all the details, I feel much better now Looks like train is a better choice, as ec1234 pointed out.</p>
<p>I noticed you both had questions about the Orchestra (PUO) and the Band (PUB). I play in both groups up here in campus, so I can give you both some (hopefully) useful information about the. There are yearly auditions for orchestra, taking place during freshman week just before classes commence. For the audition, you’ll be asked to play some piece of your choosing (i.e. solo work), as well as some excerpts that the orchestra will be performing throughout the year. </p>
<p>As far as rehearsals are concerned, there are three rehearsals each week (Sunday evening, Monday afternoon, and Wednesday afternoon), for a total of about 5 hours (so each one lasts about 1 hour and 40 minutes). There will typically be 1-2 more rehearsals during concert weeks (which are late-October, early-December, early-March, and late-April). </p>
<p>Now for the PUB - the PUB is a group that you can put into it what you want (i.e. you can show up to however much or however little you want to). Personally, I’m involved in nearly everything the PUB does because i simply love the group. There is one rehearsal every Tuesday for an hour and a half. Depending on which sports teams are playing throughout the year, you’ll have a slightly varying schedule. For example, during football season, you’ll have field rehearsal to attend on Thursday nights, and the games are every Saturday (for the extra-long away games, such as Harvard, Brown, Cornell, etc., you’ll leave together Friday afternoon - let me just say that these overnight road trips are the best). </p>
<p>Anyway, this is what I thought of off the top of my head, so if you have any more questions, feel free to message my any time.</p>
Looks like train is a better choice, as ec1234 pointed out.</p>