Roommate Contract (Amended)

Roommate Contract (Additions in Green) Names: Donald Marad, Neil Stewart By signing this roommate contract, we hereby agree to: Sleep by 2 AM on weeknights. Sitting in bed and cackling to Dane Cook…

Lingua Princetonia

Princeton students have developed a unique vocabulary that may seem daunting to the yet-unversed freshman class. To help out the newest Princetonians, Tiger has accumulated a useful list of the…

Spires and Gargoyles — Hogwarts

There is a moment on every campus tour when someone looks up at Holder Tower cutting the sky in two and whispers to their neighbor, “Wow, this place is just…

Outdoor Action 2014: Tips and Tricks

This year, from August 30th to September 5th, approximately 800 freshman from the class of 2018 will participate in Princeton’s Outdoor Action program. To any and all anxious freshmen, here…

Emoticons for an Evolving Age

Sometimes a crude, punctuation-based picture is worth a small collection of words. And in this age of smartphones, where texting could transform at any moment into meaningful conversation, never has…

How to Successfully Embezzle Money from Your Student Group

By Tim Matchen, Chairman Emeritus Let me start with a disclaimer: I have never, ever embezzled money from The Princeton Tiger (though I make no similar claims about my interactions…

Spires and Gargoyles – Reunions 2014

A message from the chairman: It is 5 am on the Sunday morning after Reunions, you are under a tent at the 5th smoking a Camel, and you have seen…

Eight Signs You Went to Princeton But Have Total Retrograde Amnesia

You ALWAYS tell people you went to “a small liberal arts school in New Jersey” because that’s all you’ve been able to piece together of the life you had before.

Oh God, We Can’t Stop

What luck. After 25 years of fruitless research, I tentatively present that my team may have finally found another long-lost piece of history’s puzzle. From this day forward, our understanding…

Princeton in the Movies!

Last month, actor/director James Franco filmed several scenes from his upcoming blockbuster, The Sound and the Fury, on Princeton’s campus. Here are some other famous films that were also filmed…

Humor is Worthless

People say that satire has the power to educate and change and even assert its author’s own opinions. They are wrong.

Who Said It: Eisgruber or Pinochet?

Can you figure out which quotes are from Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber and which are from Brutal Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet?

Princeton Application Essay Word Cloud

Rejected Hardy Boys Titles

The Hardy Boys and The Secret of the Internship Search The Hardy Boys and The Key to Dad's Liquor Cabinet The Hardy Boys and The Juxtapositions of Narratives:  A Deconstruction of Gendered Characterization…

Who Is This Man? A Profile of President Eisgruber

Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber opens up about his adventurous past and talks about his journey to the job.