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| You Are a Pear |  You are independent, intelligent, and a free thinker.
You can accomplish great things, especially when you do them on your own.
You are direct, honest, and sometimes even a bit brutal.
There's not much that gets in the way of you and your ambition.
While you are hard nosed, you do have a much sweeter side to you.
It takes times for you to soften toward someone, but once you do, you'll be their friend for life. |
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| Princeton University
Department of Public
Safety
Campus Safety
Alert
This notice is to advise you of an
incident that concerns the University community
Date:
Friday, May 18, 2007
Incident:
Unpleasant odor on
campus
The Department of Public Safety is informing the campus
community about the origin of an odor being experienced in the northern part of
campus. The odor is not harmful, though it may be
unpleasant.
Shortly before 11 a.m., Friday, May 18, an individual
conducting research in Frick Lab near the north end of campus off of Williams Street
accidentally spilled a chemical typically used as a deodorant. In taking
appropriate steps to neutralize the chemical – ethane thiol – it was flushed
down the drain and made its way through the sewer
system.
Because the chemical has a low odor threshold, even the
estimated 2 tablespoons of the ethane thiol, which commonly is used as a
deodorizer in natural gas, is emanating an odor that can be smelled from Frick
to as far as Clio Hall toward the center of campus. Individuals can expect to
continue experiencing the odor for a couple of hours, but it will not cause
injury or ill effects.
As is the case with any chemical that is released, the
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection was notified and determined
that no action was warranted.
Princeton University
Department of Public
Safety
Campus
Safety Alert
This notice is to advise you of an incident that concerns
the University community
Date:
Tuesday, April 17,
2007
Incident: Invasion of
Privacy-Suspicious Person
The Department of Public Safety is alerting
community members of an incident that took place inside the Caldwell Field House
Locker Room on Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
At approximately 7:38 p.m. Tuesday, a male
student observed an individual in the men’s locker room photographing male
athletes while they were unclothed. The individual was taking pictures with a
camera from within one of the bathroom stalls. The individual fled the locker room and
building after being confronted by the male student.
The suspect was described as a white male, 6
feet tall, in his late 20’s to early 30’s, with long dirty blonde hair, a
mustache and lip ring, wearing a black leather jacket, black pants, dark boots
and carrying a camera.
Public Safety responded and thoroughly checked the
area. The suspect was not located.
If you have any information
relevant to this incident, please contact the Department of Public Safety at
(609) 258-1000.
To maintain the safety and security of the campus, the Department of
Public Safety reminds all community members to follow the crime prevention tips
listed on our Web site (http://web.princeton.edu/sites/publicsafety/CrimeTips.htm), including:
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Report suspicious persons or activity immediately by calling
911.
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Always lock your door.
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Always lock your window screens and
windows.
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Do not open your door to unidentified or unknown
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| I used to have a lot more reflections in writing. I'm not sure why I don't anymore. I'd like to do it more often though.
Whether we act like it or not, going to Princeton is stressful. For the science people, it's one problem set after another. Oftentimes we have a pset due everyday of the week, or multiple psets due on the same day, not to mention readings or just trying to understand what the heck is going on in class. For the humanities people, whom we make fun of occasionally for having easy lives, are in reality no less busy. Hundreds of pages of reading a week on top of massive papers that only make my head spin when I think about it. And as the overachievers that we all are, in the midst of grade deflation, we will only work ourselves harder and harder as we surround ourselves with some of the most amazing people you will ever meet. The expectations are high, and the pressure is stifling at times. Sometimes, under this crazy workload and exam stress, we lose focus and perspective of ourselves, and forget to be thankful for everything that we have.
Finals are just finals. They are tests of how well we've learned the material over the course of the semester. We have studied hard for every class, so what if we do poorly on some of them? Put that in perspective, how much will one grade really matter 20 years from now? If I really have the drive and motivation to succeed in life, will one grade really ruin all my life goals? Under the pressure to perform, I sometimes forget why I'm here in the first place. It's not about the race to a better score. It's about learning, and loving to learn. I must not forget that.
I rarely have much time to just lie in bed and think abt the world, but when I do, I always end up being thankful for what I have. It's important to appreciate what you have, so tonight I will spend some time doing just that instead of driving myself crazy over Diff Eq or Thermo.
I am thankful for:
-having loving and supportive parents, whom I know I can always depend on and trust
-having great friends with whom I can be my silly self, and friends who can always make me relaxed after a stressful day
-being able to be so close to someone, even when we are separated by hundreds of miles
-being able to bond with others. It's a special feeling =)
-having people who genuinely care for me
-being loved
-having a roof over my head
-never having to go hungry against my will
-being in a place with good sanitation so I can't get Cholera
-not having a final until Wednesday
-Hoagie Haven for providing cheap and tasty food, though I wish it were closer...
...I could go on forever, but now I must go study a little. It's important to keep things in perspective and not drown in books, but that doesn't mean I don't have to work hard =(
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| Houseparties this weekend. Houseparties is hosted simultaneously by all the eating clubs once a year at the last weekend of classes before reading period and exams. It comprises of a formal on friday, a semiformal on saturday, and lawnparties on sunday. It is more or less the culmination of the Princetonian debauchery and preppiness. AWESOME. But what's even more awesome is that Will will actually be my date for this weekend! We've never been to a formal, or a semiformal, together. So I'm reaaalllly looking forward to it. As for summer, I will be working with Flagstone Re (a reinsurance company) and Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences on risk management, aka what happens in case of extreme natural catastrophes. Should be interesting. Met with Vanmarcke, my advisor on the Princeton side, today. He basically said that since I will be the first Princeton undergrad to work with an actual reinsurance company in Bermuda, I will be responsible for creating and maintaining a good and hopefully cooperating, relationship with BIOS, reinsurance companies on the island, and Princeton research in risk management.....suddenly I feel I have a lot more on my shoulders than I thought... but nonetheless, I'm excited to get out of the country and see a bit (and I do mean a tiny little bit) of the rest of the world. | | |
| So I decided to get a cup of coffee at 9PM last night. BAD CHOICE.
Went to bed at 12:30PM
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Look at clock, it's 1
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Look at clock, it's 2
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Look at clock, it's 3
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Decide to not waste anymore time doing nothing, so study for Thermo
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Look at clock, it's 4...time to give sleep another try...
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Look at clock, it's 5...damn it!
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Fall asleep between 5 and 6!
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Wake up at 8, can't fall asleep again...
In conclusion, I'm never drinking coffee again.
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