<p>Another short video clip while you're waiting. Please remember that these were written as Annual Giving solicitations and ignore the request for donations! Enjoy.</p>
<p>cool, thanks!</p>
<p>since you're a grad, how has princeton helped your life?</p>
<p>thanks for sharing this one too, Ptongrad!</p>
<p>Ditto, we love watching it over and over. It leaves you with such nice feeling and awe for Princeton!</p>
<p>The music and feel was awsome :)</p>
<p>I saw another Princeton video (I think it was the recruitment video, but I'm not sure), where they would film activities and interview a select few. I think a graduation and a speech to the incoming freshman was in it as well. But I like the "Spirit of Princeton" video waaay better. The music is cute.</p>
<p>Not only cute, but uplifting...inspiring...moving...divine...spiritual...and lovely...makes one swell with pride to be connected to Princeton.</p>
<p>P.S. same with the Lumina Princetonia video.</p>
<p>Amnesia, I apologize for taking so long to respond to your question. I hadn't noticed it after the initial posting.</p>
<p>Princeton will change your life, but so will all other colleges and universities. The next four years will be a time of tremendous growth, both intellectual and spiritual and I urge you to take full advantage of everything that is available to you. Personally, I turned down Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other peer schools in order to accept an offer of admission to Princeton. It became clear to me very quickly that I had made the right decision though I acknowledge that it's a very personal decision and any one school is not necessary "right" for every student. For me, Princeton combined the intellectual strengths I was looking for with the warmth of a smaller community and an exceptionally beautiful setting...exceptionally beautiful. To see the campus on a warm fall or spring night with a full moon illuminating the trees and gothic towers, to listen to a Nobel prize winning professor's comments interrupted by the chirping of birds through an open window, to stay awake late into the night discussing your roommate's research and just-published book, to meet your friends for a celebration party after another friend's discovery that he had just won a Rhodes Scholarship, these are the magical moments that won me over. </p>
<p>There are some other aspects of campus life at Princeton that attracted me. One of the most important was the Honor Code which is not found at Princeton's primary competitors. The Honor Code system, in force since the 19th century at Princeton, allows students to take exams without the hovering presence of proctors and other monitors as is the case at the other schools I was considering. Under this system, administered by undergraduates, there is a sense of responsibility, both personal and group, that is fostered to the benefit of all. I liked being treated as an adult even in my freshman year.</p>
<p>How has Princeton helped my life? I went to Harvard for law school and found that I was very well prepared academically. After that? I don't want to share too much biographical information but let me say that my preparation at Princeton has helped enormously in my career. </p>
<p>I could go on but you get the idea. The combination of openness and intellectual intensity at Princeton is a potent brew. I found that brew completely intoxicating (in the non-alcoholic sense)! I wish you good fortune in the next couple of weeks and hope that Princeton will be among the schools from which you'll be able to choose.</p>
<p>Allow me to correct a statement in my previous post. I was keyboarding too quickly to edit properly. In fact, Stanford does have an Honor Code very similar to Princeton's. My apologies to Stanford!</p>
<p>they sure know how to milk alums...</p>
<p>I thought the video was in good taste.</p>
<p>Any stats on the average amount donated annually per alum?</p>
<p>Ah... so nice and relaxing, and so contradictory to what I'm feeling right now! :P</p>