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( [[User:Julie| Julie]] is currently working on this page, since it was previously a stub. It will take a while to complete, so bear with me (ahhh bear!!). Feel free to add, just know that it is not yet complete.)
 
  
The [[Princeton]] site was in 2006 for students who had aged out of the CTY programs. The JHU CTY program has been tweaking the site every year, and actually listening to students, so as to improve the quality of the new site. Only a handful of CTYers continue on to the Princeton program, but with the recent improvements in staff and the overall program, it should now be seen as a wonderful choice after CTY.  
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The [[Princeton]] site was created in 2006 for students who had aged out of the CTY programs. The JHU CTY program has been tweaking the site every year and listening to students to improve the new site. A handful of CTYers continue on to the Princeton program, but with the recent improvements in staff and the overall program, it is a wonderful choice after CTY. There is a growing number of CTYers as of 2012, and Princeton lives up to the expectations well. The people are wonderful. Students and RAs at Princeton often have a much friendlier relationship than students and RAs at regular CTY because of the smaller age difference. It is not uncommon for students and RAs to sit together at lunch, etc.  
  
=Location=
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==Site Overview==
The Princeton site, is of course, at Princeton University. A horribly complicated campus. Because it is so easy to get lost around campus, students are not allowed to wander/explore on their own.  
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The Princeton site, is of course, at Princeton University, a complicated campus. Because it is so easy to get lost, students are not allowed to wander/explore on their own, as well as for other obvious reasons to do with helicopter parents and the whole RA eyesight/earshot thing. (This rule was relaxed at Princeton.)
  
= Princeton Courses =
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===Dorms===
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CTY PRN used Henry and Foulke in 2009. They are next to each other and are connected with an archway. Students are allowed to hang out on the quad outside of these buildings and around the archway during unstructured time. One building houses all the female halls, and the other houses the men. The girls' dorm also houses the health office, the main office, and all of the administrative offices. They are not air conditioned. Bring fans.
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The dorms have suites and singles with dressers, bookcases, desks, and closets. Some rooms have balconies, and all rooms have windows that open and come with screens to let cool air in and keep bugs out.
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Most bathrooms are okay. Third floor entrance one didn't have doors on their stalls, instead there were shower curtains that didn't quite do the job. Bring shower shoes and be prepared for awkward early-morning bathroom incidents.
  
* [[Advanced Cryptology]]
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As of 2010, they students used the dorms Campbell and Joline. BRING A FAN, there is no air conditioning. Boys were in Joline, and had bathrooms interspersed throughout the building and laundry machines in the basement. Girls, however, had bathrooms in the basement and no laundry machines. Once a week they could be accompanied by an RA to laundry machines halfway across campus. Thanks, Princeton.
  
* [[Epidemiology, Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, and Pandemics]]
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In 2011, students were housed in Henry and Foulke halls. The boys, laundry and offices were in Henry and the girls were in Foulke. Girls' and boys' laundry days alternated so that girls had greater access to laundry than in 2010. The dorms were not too bad, but on the third floor it was too hot and it is recommended to bring a fan.
  
* [[Global Politics: Human Rights and Justice]]
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In 2012, students used Whitman college. Floors 1 and 2 were for girls, and 3 and 4 were for guys. There was air conditioning, although water were sometimes leak out of the air conditioning onto the CTYer. Everyone loves cold water mysteriously appearing on their shoulder. Dorms were arranged differently; some people had singles, while others had suites consisting two doubles and a common room. These were liked (except for during Blammo).
  
* [[Human Nature and Technology]]
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On a side note, Whitman College has triple-glazed mahogany windowsills. Upon which we heaped books, snacks, crumbs, and unmentionable fluids.
  
* [[Memoirs of War]]
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In 2013 it was again Whitman College Floors 1 and 2 were for girls, and 3 and 4 were for guys. There was air conditioning, although water sometimes leaked out of air conditioning units. Dorms were arranged differently; some people had singles, while others had suites consisting two doubles and a common room.
  
* [[Politics and Film]]
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In 2015 Whitman College was used for dorms again. Whitman has a multitude of interesting tunnels in the basement that were great places for "doing laundry" and other such activities.
  
==Human Nature and Technology==
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In 2017 Whitman College was used again. Floors 1 and 2 for girls, 3 and 4 for guys. Temperature was okay, but your ceiling might start leaking. The thermostats on floor one are for decoration and do not work. Protip: steal an armchair from a lounge on your floor and keep it in your room. It is comfy. Interesting things took place on the staircases, and lots of exploring was done!
Daniel Estrada taught section A in 2008 and 2009 with John, also from Lancaster, as a TA. Section B was taught by Michele Merritt and Diana. This is a favorite among students, and the only one that doesn't take existence for granted. During the first week, students learn basic philosophies of the mind. After establishing the fact that we don't know anything, they introduce the idea that all technology changes our definition of ourselves. Students study philosophers from Ancient Greece to those still going out for a drink with certain instructors. This course is challenging and definitely up to CTY standards. It is this CTYer's 2nd favorite class she has taken. (It culminated with a viewing of Wall.E. <3)
 
  
=Staff=
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===Dining Hall===
==Main Office==
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The Rocky dining hall is a hike from the dorms. Students are allowed to leave their dorms at 8 o'clock to walk to the dining hall. It is down the street from the dorms, past the UStore, under an archway, up some stairs, and across a quad. The dining hall resembles the Great Hall at Hogwarts. There are long tables to sit at and two circular tables. One sat at by the [[Oval Table Mafia]]. The food is decent, although frequently mislabeled, such as the Potato Puffs that were labeled as Eggplant Parmigiana one morning. There is a salad bar, PB&J station, fruit, hot meals, cereal, a table of rotating desserts, and ice cream. One of the favorite ice creams was Passionfruit Sorbet, which lasted a day for obvious reasons. Due to legal precautions, signs are hilarious. One morning, there was a sign that said, "Bacon (Contains Pork)."
==Health Office==
 
==RA's==
 
There were two returning RA's this year, JC and Katrina.
 
*JC- There has been a religion created around the awesomeness of JC. He de-mined Cambodia in Middle School. 'Nuff said. He is currently taking a year off from school to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. He also writes amazing poetry.  
 
*James- Went to Carlisle as a student. He is 19, but he is going to be a senior at Harvard. Another fabulous RA. He was the DJ for all of the dances, and made sure to play lots of current music, some favorites, and of course, the high holy [[canon]] at every dance. He also taught students how to rave, and made sure to play enough techno so that a circle could be formed and ravers could, well rave.  
 
==Instructors and TA's==
 
=Activities=
 
  
=Things We Like/Traditions Migrating To Princeton=
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The food sucked most days, although some items were delicious (such as General Tso's chicken). Deserts were wonderful, and so was the ice cream.
  
=Princeton Passionfrut=
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As of 2010, the dining hall was shared with about six other camps at a time (mostly sports, but also the infamous JSA), making it crowded. ([[The 2010 Hipsters]]) sat in the back room for a full week before getting kicked because it was "reserved" for the ID Tech camp, which consists of 12-year-old boys learning computer science.
  
==[[User:Rae Spasmodic| Rachel Hall]]==
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Also in 2010, many bystanders were given a show in the middle of their meal by Daniel Ochoa with his heroic shout, "I bet the neighbors know my name!" This occurred several times during the session, as well as at the last dance. Thank you, Dan, you crazy bastard. We CTY you.
*To Da Boys.
 
*To the Female Bananas.
 
*To raking in the bananas.
 
*To National Security: 3, Human Rights: 0.
 
*To always having Facebook.
 
*To being wimps.
 
*To grass orgies in the sunshine.
 
*To parties in dorm rooms when it rains and cancels activities.
 
*To RAMEN.
 
*To Emily Mamula. If you ever take more of my ramen, I will eat your soul.
 
*To the Knights of the Oval Table, the Mafia, and the CTYxcore.
 
*To living in Hogwarts for 3 weeks.
 
*To Brynn.
 
*To Barry (Mom), Katrina (Mommy), and Josh (Big Momma).
 
*To Dom, JC, Kate, Charleen, Ore, and James.
 
*To sketchball SRAs.
 
*To Silent Football and ASA.
 
*To "awesome".
 
*To Camp Touch Yourself.
 
*To unexpected mutual friends.
 
*To Passionfruit sorbet.
 
*To Halo and Morning Glory and Small World and The Record Exchange and CVS and starbucks and the movie theater.
 
*To always saying yes...except when it actually might change things.
 
*To fingerpainting and modge podge and Beat It and Defend Yourselves Against Bears and Extreme Inactivity.
 
*To trying to introduce myself to everyone...and not succeeding in the slightest.
 
*To my second staff lanyard. It seems like my only chance for another one will be as an actual staff member.
 
*To getting AP exam scores halfway through the last week.
 
*To boobtag in the library and on Facebook.
 
*To doing just about anything EXCEPT working on our thesis papers.
 
*To sleep-deprivation.
 
*To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Jello Pudding.
 
*To our notorious TA, even if she won't tell us why.
 
*To crying during Hotel Rwanda and The Pianist.
 
*To falling asleep during 12 Monkeys.
 
*To right foot first.
 
*To running up on stage and doing the Time Warp at every dance.
 
*To marrying 23 people and Howan's hat at Casino Night.
 
*To becoming an assassin.
 
*To being too damn adorable for anyone to stay angry.
 
*To hickeys and bruises that fade just in time.
 
*To turning a curtain into a dress...and then having to fix that dress every ten seconds.
 
*To Never Have I Ever and Truth or Truth.
 
*To Carlisle and Lancaster, coexisting in harmony.
 
*To CTY PoRN.
 
*To arguments on the walk back from the last dance.
 
*To feeling unloved.
 
*To feeling loved.
 
*To hugs and laps and smiles and laughs and bites and stomachs and circles and grass and statues and trees and stairs.
 
*To the Princeton bugs. I wanted you all DEAD.
 
*To hugging RAs. Even when they didn't want us to.
 
*To TAs who don't like hugs.
 
*To a million other things I can't think of right now.
 
*But...as of this moment...
 
  
*I love CTY
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In 2012, CTYers used the Gordon Wu Dining Hall. The dining space given to the CTY program was often too small, so students snuck off to the other side of the building where there were other camps with small children. These children would take an eternity to scoop ice cream, of which there was always a gratuitous amount, even if it was five tubs of disgusting orange sorbet. The food was amazing on Sundays, great on Mondays, decent on Tuesdays, and revolting by Saturdays. This may have been due to repetition of food choices or recycling of leftovers into creative dishes. Tater tots at breakfast would be potato puffs for lunch and fried potatoes for dinner, rinse and repeat. If there was plain white tofu on Sunday evening, Tuesday would have some sort of Princeton Club Tofu Sandwich. Thursday's dinner would contain French Tofu Beef Casserole. Saturday's lunch: Brazilian Tofu Filet Mignon with Rice and Hummus. It is believed that the employees had, in the back room, a dartboard printed with countries, with which they decided what obscure, unrelated country's name they would append to their outlandish foods.
and I love the Passionfruit.
 
  
=Discussion=
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In 2015, the Butler Dining Hall was used. This was close to the dorms, and on the way to class, so all in all a great location. The food was decent, but the main attraction was the ice cream on offer, which lead to the weight gain of nearly 200 CTYers. We shared the space with ID Tech, as well as various sports camps and even a ballet camp, but it never got too crowded. There were seats outside, although these were not often used on account of the heat or the rain.
  
*More people will slowly show up over the years as more hear of it. ~Yulia
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In 2017, Butler was used again. The quality of the apples decreased between the first and second week, much to everyone's dismay, but the ice cream was always there for comfort. It was hard to find seats at times because of the sports camps, but if you went at breakfast it was a ghost town. The far side of the dining hall, when open, was less crowded. Pro tip: there is a second entrance to the dining hall if you walk around the left of the building.
  
*From [http://community.livejournal.com/cty_therapy/ CTY Therapy].  For those too lazy to read, it sounds as if the campus itself isn't that amazing and the staff is fumbling around to figure out what's going on. Otherwise, it sounds that the people are amazing there and it's worth it to go.
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===Classrooms===
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All students have class (as well as Opening and Closing Ceremonies) in McCosh Hall. The building is cold, especially in the basement (dungeon).The classrooms were a bit of a walk from the dining hall, but it was a nice time to wake up, talk to friends, and walk slowly to make morning classes shorter. All classes have lunch at noon, which makes the morning class long, especially when you don't get much sleep the night before...
  
*I went!
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McCosh 50, the location of Opening Ceremonies, the Talent Show, and Closing Ceremonies, was also the room in which several of the class scenes for Transformers 2 were filmed.  This is not in any way an endorsement of the movie.
  
And I'm so sad it's over.
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Fine, McDonnell, and Whitman were used in 2012. It was an easy stroll away from the dining hall, which all laid out nicely in a straight path.
  
I think the best part about it was that it was only older kids. Also, it was a really small campus, which was nice. There were only 120 kids. Only one kid (that I know of) didn't go to any other CTY program.
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McDonnell was again used in 2013
  
The dorms weren't air conditioned (which was unbearable a couple of days) and there was a LOT of walking from each of our buildings.
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Jadwin and McDonnell were used in 2017. Classrooms are freezing, so bring a heavy sweater to keep in the classroom at all times. It was a nice walk from the dining hall, straight down from the dorms too.
  
Um...the classes seemed to be really interesting. I took epidemiology which had the potential to be really amazing, but it seemed like the teacher didn't really know where he was going because it was the first year of the class. At least our teacher was amazing. We got Dr. Ted who taught History of Disease I believe.
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===Main Office===
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The main office staff were quite wonderful. On many occasions, students needed to use the internet and copier, and they were always willing to help. They also had a water cooler that they always let students use.  
  
The activities were pretty lame and the dances weren't all that great (mainly because we didn't have a consistent place to have them and they decided to play a LOT of rap). Forced fun on the weekends was also pretty bad.
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===Health Office===
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For obvious reasons many students avoided going to the Health Office whenever possible. If a student were found to have a fever, they would be sent home to recover. (aka torture!!!) So students went for things like bee stings and sprains and for medication. During these visits, the Health Office staff supplied pretty cups of cold water, and... CANDY! Yes, they gave you candy. The only problem with the Health Office was its location: the basement of the girls' halls. This meant that boys going for morning medications would have to be fob'ed in by RAs (who were waking up and often were outside after the students went for meds) or had to wait for a girl to come down for her meds. For the girls though, it was convenient.
  
One really good thing, however, was that we were actually allowed to go off campus this year. For one of our activity periods per week we were allowed to sign out to go through the tow of Princeton for two hours. That was pretty sweet.
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Congrats to 2017 for not having a mono outbreak!
  
The RAs were cool, especially my RA (Alice). They were more laid back at the beginning, but as the session progressed, they got to be more strict. It seemed like Princeton was trying to find any reason to not invite us back next year. So by the end of the session, the RAs were paranoid about following the rules. But...hopefully they do have it again...because it was really fun.
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==Student Life==
  
To be honest, I have a feeling that CTY Princeton had its first and last year this year. The campus was really crowded with other camps and Princeton kept getting mad at us for the stupidest little things. I I don't think they liked us very much.  Omega17
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===Dances===
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Princeton has three dances, one on each Friday night and one on the last Thursday. The dances  are held in a multi-cultural house a few blocks away from the dorms, so the walk was not fun when wearing heels for the dance. It was nice walking back from the dance though because it would be nice and cool outside, so you would be at a comfortable temperature by the time you got back to the dorms.  
  
*The program was amazing for being CTYish, but I agree with Sarah on the paranoia thing. I think that will improve in other years if we get invited back, because this year we really had to tiptoe around everyone else. Hopefully, they will take student suggestions and have less mandatory fun on weekends and less rap at the dances (even the major hip-hop people were ticked off that Stairway didn't get played). We had traditions like American Pie and Passionfruit, and otherwise just had fun. For example, my hall+a few others had an emo Wednesday, and several of us got together a Rocky Horror cast for 2nd Saturday's dance. It was totally worth it, but not for everybody.
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In 2010, two of the dances were held in Forbes Hall and one somewhere else which the students liked better, but staff didn't. The second location had a much larger dance floor, and was considered to be nicer by many. The author of the passage likes both locations. The first dance of 2010 was a disaster. The DJ played three canon: Cotton-Eyed Joe, Stairway to Heaven and American Pie, in that order. The rest was hip-hop. It was DJed by one of the RA's who had never been to CTY before. Many students complained, however, and the next two were improved and awesome. Word of advice for future CTY Princetoners: ask around first week for who the DJ will be, find them, and plaster them with canon.
  
Also, my class, Advanced Crypto B, was taught by an NSA guy. He had to be declassified to teach us, and there was a lot he couldn't tell us, which was annoying but intriguing. It was up there as one of my favorite CTY courses. Bohorseok
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In 2015, during the first two dances, held in a nice frat house, the music failed halfway through. In the first dance, this lead to students beat-boxing and creating their own songs, and at the second dance, the class of MOCB B lead about 100 people in a huge rendition of the Hokey Pokey, which had become a tradition for the sausage fest that was MOCB B. All the dances were fantastic, with every student having a great grasp on tradition and it being held in a great venue with great DJing. Also during the first dance, the attempted use of glow-sticks by a student named Tom and the repeated shouts of 'BIG CIRCLE!' led to him receiving the infamous title of 'glow-sticks guy'. On the final dance, when 'Cotton Eye Joe' was played upon request, around 30 boys, lead by the famous members of the Arty Party took off their shirts and danced around for two minutes, ignoring the shouts of RAs trying to restrain them. At the Talent show, 'glow-sticks guy' resurfaced as MC, and he brought the crowd into fits of laughter as he fell while trying to jump onto a stool. Check the My Life is CTY Facebook page for videos of said fall.
  
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In 2017, all of the buildings where dances are held were reserved for other events, so CTY was stuck with a small, two-floor area. The top floor was the dance, with a balcony area from which an SRA watched your every move, and the bottom floor was board games, movie, and a small outside area with strange iced tea, water, and snacks. The first dance was rough, with lights flickering and music being cut off every few seconds. Music was too quiet through all three dances. At the end of every dance, boys were to go down to the first floor to meet with their RAs and walk back to the dorms first, then the girls on the second floor would go. The first dance was cut short in the middle of "American Pie" due to a student crowd-surfing despite RA warnings. After the nevermores sang "Seasons of Love" at the end of that session's talent show, they followed it with singing Happy Birthday to RA Peter, as there was a session-wide running joke about it being his birthday every day - a joke that drove him insane after we sang for him at every single hall meeting. (Needless to say, we made him age - ha!). As for canon, there was a decent amount. Many canon songs were never played, but there was a decent amount. There were no traditional dances done except for a big outer circle during American Pie with a smaller RA circle. We'd do the leg lift thing (RIGHT FOOT FIRST!), and many Lancaster kids would do the chants (turkey hill! not even one! etc), but most of the other kids rushed the RA circle and jumped and joined in on the "sex-orgy" chants. There were three slow canon songs per dance, and since the area was so small, it was hard to avoid RA tapping and flashlights. Stairway to Heaven and Forever Young were always played, as well as Mr. Brightside.
  
*Okay, so I confess: I was not a CTY Princeton student, but I spent a ridiculous amount of time there anyway. I crashed Meet Market, snuck into dances, and hung out with CTY Princeton friends during dinner.
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The dances have refreshments. These consist of cookies, chips, sprite, soda, diet soda, and water, which is a nice change from Lancaster dances, which don't even have water other than the water fountain. During the dances, an air-conditioned room plays decent movies, like Jurassic Park and Harry Potter 5.  
  
This might tell you something about the laxity of CTY Princeton RAs. Anonymous
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One year, James Fish was the DJ for every dance. A CTY Carlisle alum, he understood the necessity to play [[Canon]] at every dance. He played a lot of hip hop, but that is unavoidable because that's what teenagers like to listen to. But favorites were still thrown in.
  
*The above commenter, if I know who she is, is a 2005 nomore of the Carlisle variety like myself who lives in Princeton. Although her presence was perhaps a large part of what made my Princeton(tm) experience so enjoyable, she hits the nail on the head about the general environment there. Strict rules aside, the place was a party. The classes, if untested and fresh, were up to the CTY standard, but the rest of the environment was anarchy by compared to Carlisle. Students regularly snuck off of campus for dinner, visited with other campus groups, skipped activities (I walked out of the mandatory viewing of the World Cup mandatory fun for two hours), held wrestling competitions and illegal sleepovers after dark and more or less acted with impunity. I enjoyed myself. -Yoda, CAR 2002.1-2005.1; PRN 2006.1
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Some RAs patrol the dance floor with bright flashlights, or spied on young couples who left the dance floor for some alone time. Other, much more awesome RAs cracked jokes, and let young adults be the young adults they are. Thank you Clay, among the rest of you awesome people, for being reasonable, respectful, and funny.
  
*I went, and it was just as awesome as any other CTY I've attended.
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===Activities===
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In 2010, students had two activities blocks a day: first a daily activity, then a weekly activity. The daily activities included henna tattoos, frisbee, arts and crafts, mafia, swimming, and occasionally silent football, Best activity ever, Worst activity ever, and Fun, which students are not allowed to discuss. Weekly activities included quiet time (a favorite, because it basically meant an hour and a half of free time), ultimate Frisbee, scrap-booking/slideshow work, manipulating objects (glowstringing and contact juggling!), and JC's spoken word workshop.  
  
Well, not quite. The standards must have been lower or something, because the kids there weren't all cream of the crop. Lots of them were very very immature and unpleasant, and we had a huge hip-hop crowd who didn't want any canon at all to be played. Not to mention that the campus was horrible. One of our classrooms was a mile from our dorms, and we had to walk there and back every day, and getting to the dining hall was quite a trek. Princeton had terrible weather, and the dorms weren't air conditioned, which absolutely killed in 80 degree weather, with perhaps 90% humidity. I may be exaggerating, but that's what it felt like. It was literally the armpit of the world.
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In 2012, new activities included: CrossFit (a great workout headed by RA Alex), Jog to Einstein's workplace, campus tours, Prison Break, Volleyball, Basketball, cloud watching, advanced moping, hat game. Most of the activities were pretty cheesy, but still fun nonetheless.
  
But some people were awesome, and my class was fantastic. All in all I'm SO SO SO glad I went. Anonymous
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In 2015, site-specific activities were weekly, including prison break and treasure hunt. These took place in the main dorm building, and involved escaping without getting shot by a nerf-gun wielding RA in prison break, and finding certain items in the building in the latter activity.
  
IN reply to that...I just checked the Princeton website, the standards are only CAA standards (410 grade7, 560 grade 10 <--WTF?!) I guess that's why, and also they aren't very clear on the admissions process (highest SAT scores?)
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In 2017, there were two activity blocks a day except for on Thursday, when there was a 2 hour double block. Activities included cloud-watching, basketball, pumping iron without iron, prison break, drip drip drop, escape room, letter writing, Disney sing along, ultimate Frisbee, soccer, etc.
-Liza
 
  
*Does anyone know about the differences between CTY Princeton Advanced Cryptology and regular CTY Cryptology?  I've been looking at classes for this year and was considering Crypto, but I don't want to take something that's pretty much the same as a class I've already taken. - [[user:steve|Steve]]
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===Sleepovers===
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Sleepovers were legal on Friday nights for girls, and Saturday nights for boys. During sleepovers, students were allowed to order pizza and wings from the nearby Dominoes. Illegal sleepovers abounded, such that an entire hall's worth of guys lived in the same room for two weeks, and nobody cared. Yes, I'm referring to the Man Cave.
  
*Advanced Crypto A, the in 2006, was taught by a Princeton math professor, so it was a ''lot'' of math.  Lots of proofs and work with modulo. The first week was spent as a review of cyphers and basic theory.  The second week got into RSA and modern cryptosystems, and the third week was crazy: we split into two teams prepared scavenger hunts for the other team while still doing some learning.  It's really good to have someone in your class who can program his/her calculator. - Alex R/&y2
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Many students liked to order pizza and Chinese food to their dorms even on nights when it wasn't legal. This was much easier for boys, as the girls' building housed the administration and health offices.  
  
*BTW, can anyone tell me if my SAT score 640CR 650M in grade 7 would let me in? Because I know what the official requirements are...but I just don't know what the 'real' score requirements are..
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Another favorite late-night activity was sneaking out to the nearby WaWa to get sandwiches and whatnot. Often, students did not get caught.
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On the last night in 2009, DRL Allie legalized inter-hall sleepovers (still single sex, but you could sleep in any room in the building).
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Orders were available from Dominoes in 2012.
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In 2017, takeout was allowed on the last night. Inter-hall single-sex sleepovers were okay (girls on Friday and boys on Saturday) and people got away with illegal sleepovers with little chance of getting caught. Many snuck out to WaWa or into town in the middle of the night, and many also snuck into dorms for the opposite sex.
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===Casino Night===
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Casino Night, a tradition at several CTY sites, traveled to Princeton.  The first Saturday of the session, students and staff travel to a dining hall other than Rocky for casino games.  A marriage booth is available for $20 (in casino money). Any CTYer who ran out of money and wished to get more approached a Godfather (RAs and staff members) for a task to complete.
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As always, a movie option is offered for those uninterested in taking part in the games. Also available was a karaoke room.
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Casino night was held on a Saturday night in another house a walk away from the dorms, past the WaWa that some students snuck out to in 2009. Said students returned in 2010 saying that it wasn't worth it, so this was not repeated.
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In 2013, EPIB executed Operation Not-A-Heist to rob the bank. The plan did not play well. Students began bribing RAs to jail other students.
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In 2017, Casino Night was crowded with barely enough seats for everyone that wanted to play. Everyone wanted to go to Patty's table, because she dealt the best cards, but anyone who didn't want to gamble considered it social time. Many did "tasks" (i.e. doing the chicken dance on stage or messing up RA Jeremy's hair) for money. Marriage booth was interesting, and the horse race was won by RA Allison.
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===Scavenger Hunt===
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Another fun weekend activity was the Scavenger Hunt, an event which pretty much had CTY students running around with their halls and grabbing random strangers from the campus in order to have them sing "Bah Bah Black Sheep," recognize the fact that the students lying in weird shapes on the ground spelled out CTY, or being forced to listen to students ask for directions in what turned out to be an 'orrible British accent. There were also non-creepy activities, such as getting a CTY shirt off Boyd's back. He had two, which meant many groups were disappointed. (One group went so far as to take their own CTY shirt, put it on Boyd's back, then take it off, an innovative solution.)
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Also on the list were such things as finding a four-leaf clover, a bird feather, a business card, a map, and a flying cow. Yes, a flying cow.
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There were several prizes for winning the Scavenger Hunt, such as an extra trip into town and candy.
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The Scavenger Hunt ends at the Fountain, which halls must find for themselves within the time limit. If they do not arrive there before time is up, they are disqualified. The scavenger hunt's ending at the fountain was fun because students were hot from running around scavenging, so they jumped into the fountain fully clothed. The wet students were then banned from participating in the next part of mandatory fun (watching a movie in the science building) because they were wet.
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There was no Scavenger Hunt in 2017, but there was a "public art scavenger hunt" as an option for one of the activities, which was basically walking around campus with your friends.
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===Talent Show===
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The talent show was held on the other Saturday night in McCosh 50. It featured such memorable acts as JC's slam poetry, Dom fighting a bear, Kyle's hall being manly men, the Princeton incarnation of [[Monty Python Madness]], and the Hip-Hop class' performance.
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The 2010 talent show was entitled "the Blammies," and was won by Eli Turner for his amazing poetry. You should all bow down to him.
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===Town Walk===
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On offer in 2015 was the town walk, where students, accompanied by an RA in groups of their choosing, could walk around town and buy things. It was a nice diversion from normal mandatory fun at other sites, and it was a good way to fill the Sundays.
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In 2017, a hall was matched with another hall for town walks. Popular destinations were Urban Outfitters, Starbucks, and Kung Fu Tea.
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==Traditions==
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===Games===
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'''Risk:''' The board game, played a lot.
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'''Card Games:'''
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They were played a lot. Mostly:
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* President (a.k.a. Asshole)
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* B.S.
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* B.S. Poker
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* E.R.S.
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'''Mao (One Card Millard):'''
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* Rule 1: You're not allowed to discuss the rules.
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* Rule 2: There is no rule 2.
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* Rule 3: You are not allowed to be frustrated by the rules.
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===Blammo===
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For all you Lancasterians, Princeton does Blammo. It is organized by the students (AKA our fellow CTYers)
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In 2010, it was presided over by Race Archibold and Benjamin Boult. The game was intense. On the morning of Passionfruit, 8 people remained. Two dropped their spoons and ran for their lives and one was eliminated through a silly voice competition. I believe that left 5 finalists, whom all became God. (Correct me if I'm wrong, my memory is failing.)
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In 2011, AJ Franchino, Ian MacArthur and Bethia Kwak presided over Blammo. On the morning of Passionfruit, there were approximately 16 players still in the game. Two had forgotten their spoons in the dorms or did not have their entire spoon on them and were eliminated immediately. A few more were eliminated by a "Simon Says" game, and more still by a contest to see who could balance the spoon on their nose. The final six were subjected to a planking contest, which eliminated one player to leave a final five winners (whose names will be posted soon).
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In 2012, Oleck was the Blammo God. The game started on the last Monday. By Thursday, there were 47 people left and every place including showers became fair game. By Friday morning, 20 remained. At the end of Passionfruit, spoons no longer protected players and all that was needed to Blammo someone was to tap them with a spoon on their back and say "Blammo!" Some players retreated to their dorms, which leaving those who stayed to duke it out. This CTYer was the last one remaining of those who stayed outside after Passionfruit; however, I got eliminated after another person came down stairs and in a chase I dropped my spoon. I'm not sure if anyone won as Oleck stopped keeping track of who was in.
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In 2013, [[User:Lcparr|Alfie]] bought spoons and organized the game with Esti. There were over 80 participants, including the head of site, a good number of RAs, and one somewhat confused TA. Blammo kills were cumulative (as points, to avoid confusion), and after the first purge, new players were added, resulting in a second round of about 80. There were purges Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. At the end of Passionfruit, the winner, Zeyneb Majid, was announced. She had 57 points, but isn't returning to Princeton. An extra, beaten-up box of spoons and the two god Blammo spoons (each being two spoons taped together with pink hello kitty duct tape), were passed down to Abby Menschik and Doug.
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In 2017, with all the drama going on with Blammo being shut down at some other sites, Blammo didn't happen at Princeton. Also the fact that there weren't enough people interested, since more than half the people there were first-years.
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===Life Stories===
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Asking staff to tell the story of their entire life. If they refused to tell their story, it would be questioned out of them. No subtlety necessary.
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===Passionfruit===
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You wake up pre-dawn and go out into the quad to drink Passionfruit juice and discus CTY memories in a circle with no RAs watching the sun rise.
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In 2009, the Princeton Passionfruit adopted a combination of the styles of Passionfruit at Lancaster, Carlisle, and Siena. To reflect this, Passionfruit was presided over by two emperors: [[user:Rae Spasmodic|Rachel Hall]] (Carlisle) and [[User:Julie|Julie Leghorn]] (Lancaster), and an empress, Johnine Licht (Siena).
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2010's Passionfruit was held at 5:30am and was organized by Logan Phillips. It featured many an emotional speech, and every single RA present.
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In 2017, Passionfruit wasn't organized by a single entity, but enough people bothered the RAs about it that they provided juice and cups for students. People woke up at 5:30 AM and gathered on the patio area of Whitman College. Juice cups were passed around, rather than all being gathered at the center, and people got up in no particular order and talked. RAs and SRAs were present, and it started drizzling halfway. It was bittersweet as some shuttles had to leave in the middle of it.
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In 2019, Passionfruit was organized by Sophia Malinsky, while continuing the tradition of 5:30am Passionfruit at Princeton. Several RAs were present and some gave speeches. One humorous speech was cut short as somebody pulled the fire alarm, and CTYers were split into groups, halting Passionfruit. Fruit punch replaced Passionfruit juice. Many people joined after waking up due to the fire alarm.
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==External Links==
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[https://mycty.jhu.edu/mycty2/parent/Templates/SitePackets/2019/PRN_SitePacket.pdf Site Information Packet]
  
 
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Princeton
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Site Information
CollegePrinceton University
LocationPrinceton, New Jersey
DatesJune 23 - July 12
Years of Operation2006-present
Avg. Number of Students?
Courses Offered
CoursesEpidemiology | Global Politics: Human Rights and Justice | Human Nature and Technology | Politics and Film | The Mathematics of Competitive Behavior | Science, Technology and Public Policy | The Global Environment | You Will Be Offended: Satire, Comedy and Public Discourse | Playing God: The Ethics of Human Subjects Research
Defunct CoursesMemoirs of War | Advanced Cryptology | Politics in the Middle East
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The Princeton site was created in 2006 for students who had aged out of the CTY programs. The JHU CTY program has been tweaking the site every year and listening to students to improve the new site. A handful of CTYers continue on to the Princeton program, but with the recent improvements in staff and the overall program, it is a wonderful choice after CTY. There is a growing number of CTYers as of 2012, and Princeton lives up to the expectations well. The people are wonderful. Students and RAs at Princeton often have a much friendlier relationship than students and RAs at regular CTY because of the smaller age difference. It is not uncommon for students and RAs to sit together at lunch, etc.

Site Overview

The Princeton site, is of course, at Princeton University, a complicated campus. Because it is so easy to get lost, students are not allowed to wander/explore on their own, as well as for other obvious reasons to do with helicopter parents and the whole RA eyesight/earshot thing. (This rule was relaxed at Princeton.)

Dorms

CTY PRN used Henry and Foulke in 2009. They are next to each other and are connected with an archway. Students are allowed to hang out on the quad outside of these buildings and around the archway during unstructured time. One building houses all the female halls, and the other houses the men. The girls' dorm also houses the health office, the main office, and all of the administrative offices. They are not air conditioned. Bring fans. The dorms have suites and singles with dressers, bookcases, desks, and closets. Some rooms have balconies, and all rooms have windows that open and come with screens to let cool air in and keep bugs out. Most bathrooms are okay. Third floor entrance one didn't have doors on their stalls, instead there were shower curtains that didn't quite do the job. Bring shower shoes and be prepared for awkward early-morning bathroom incidents.

As of 2010, they students used the dorms Campbell and Joline. BRING A FAN, there is no air conditioning. Boys were in Joline, and had bathrooms interspersed throughout the building and laundry machines in the basement. Girls, however, had bathrooms in the basement and no laundry machines. Once a week they could be accompanied by an RA to laundry machines halfway across campus. Thanks, Princeton.

In 2011, students were housed in Henry and Foulke halls. The boys, laundry and offices were in Henry and the girls were in Foulke. Girls' and boys' laundry days alternated so that girls had greater access to laundry than in 2010. The dorms were not too bad, but on the third floor it was too hot and it is recommended to bring a fan.

In 2012, students used Whitman college. Floors 1 and 2 were for girls, and 3 and 4 were for guys. There was air conditioning, although water were sometimes leak out of the air conditioning onto the CTYer. Everyone loves cold water mysteriously appearing on their shoulder. Dorms were arranged differently; some people had singles, while others had suites consisting two doubles and a common room. These were liked (except for during Blammo).

On a side note, Whitman College has triple-glazed mahogany windowsills. Upon which we heaped books, snacks, crumbs, and unmentionable fluids.

In 2013 it was again Whitman College Floors 1 and 2 were for girls, and 3 and 4 were for guys. There was air conditioning, although water sometimes leaked out of air conditioning units. Dorms were arranged differently; some people had singles, while others had suites consisting two doubles and a common room.

In 2015 Whitman College was used for dorms again. Whitman has a multitude of interesting tunnels in the basement that were great places for "doing laundry" and other such activities.

In 2017 Whitman College was used again. Floors 1 and 2 for girls, 3 and 4 for guys. Temperature was okay, but your ceiling might start leaking. The thermostats on floor one are for decoration and do not work. Protip: steal an armchair from a lounge on your floor and keep it in your room. It is comfy. Interesting things took place on the staircases, and lots of exploring was done!

Dining Hall

The Rocky dining hall is a hike from the dorms. Students are allowed to leave their dorms at 8 o'clock to walk to the dining hall. It is down the street from the dorms, past the UStore, under an archway, up some stairs, and across a quad. The dining hall resembles the Great Hall at Hogwarts. There are long tables to sit at and two circular tables. One sat at by the Oval Table Mafia. The food is decent, although frequently mislabeled, such as the Potato Puffs that were labeled as Eggplant Parmigiana one morning. There is a salad bar, PB&J station, fruit, hot meals, cereal, a table of rotating desserts, and ice cream. One of the favorite ice creams was Passionfruit Sorbet, which lasted a day for obvious reasons. Due to legal precautions, signs are hilarious. One morning, there was a sign that said, "Bacon (Contains Pork)."

The food sucked most days, although some items were delicious (such as General Tso's chicken). Deserts were wonderful, and so was the ice cream.

As of 2010, the dining hall was shared with about six other camps at a time (mostly sports, but also the infamous JSA), making it crowded. (The 2010 Hipsters) sat in the back room for a full week before getting kicked because it was "reserved" for the ID Tech camp, which consists of 12-year-old boys learning computer science.

Also in 2010, many bystanders were given a show in the middle of their meal by Daniel Ochoa with his heroic shout, "I bet the neighbors know my name!" This occurred several times during the session, as well as at the last dance. Thank you, Dan, you crazy bastard. We CTY you.

In 2012, CTYers used the Gordon Wu Dining Hall. The dining space given to the CTY program was often too small, so students snuck off to the other side of the building where there were other camps with small children. These children would take an eternity to scoop ice cream, of which there was always a gratuitous amount, even if it was five tubs of disgusting orange sorbet. The food was amazing on Sundays, great on Mondays, decent on Tuesdays, and revolting by Saturdays. This may have been due to repetition of food choices or recycling of leftovers into creative dishes. Tater tots at breakfast would be potato puffs for lunch and fried potatoes for dinner, rinse and repeat. If there was plain white tofu on Sunday evening, Tuesday would have some sort of Princeton Club Tofu Sandwich. Thursday's dinner would contain French Tofu Beef Casserole. Saturday's lunch: Brazilian Tofu Filet Mignon with Rice and Hummus. It is believed that the employees had, in the back room, a dartboard printed with countries, with which they decided what obscure, unrelated country's name they would append to their outlandish foods.

In 2015, the Butler Dining Hall was used. This was close to the dorms, and on the way to class, so all in all a great location. The food was decent, but the main attraction was the ice cream on offer, which lead to the weight gain of nearly 200 CTYers. We shared the space with ID Tech, as well as various sports camps and even a ballet camp, but it never got too crowded. There were seats outside, although these were not often used on account of the heat or the rain.

In 2017, Butler was used again. The quality of the apples decreased between the first and second week, much to everyone's dismay, but the ice cream was always there for comfort. It was hard to find seats at times because of the sports camps, but if you went at breakfast it was a ghost town. The far side of the dining hall, when open, was less crowded. Pro tip: there is a second entrance to the dining hall if you walk around the left of the building.

Classrooms

All students have class (as well as Opening and Closing Ceremonies) in McCosh Hall. The building is cold, especially in the basement (dungeon).The classrooms were a bit of a walk from the dining hall, but it was a nice time to wake up, talk to friends, and walk slowly to make morning classes shorter. All classes have lunch at noon, which makes the morning class long, especially when you don't get much sleep the night before...

McCosh 50, the location of Opening Ceremonies, the Talent Show, and Closing Ceremonies, was also the room in which several of the class scenes for Transformers 2 were filmed. This is not in any way an endorsement of the movie.

Fine, McDonnell, and Whitman were used in 2012. It was an easy stroll away from the dining hall, which all laid out nicely in a straight path.

McDonnell was again used in 2013

Jadwin and McDonnell were used in 2017. Classrooms are freezing, so bring a heavy sweater to keep in the classroom at all times. It was a nice walk from the dining hall, straight down from the dorms too.

Main Office

The main office staff were quite wonderful. On many occasions, students needed to use the internet and copier, and they were always willing to help. They also had a water cooler that they always let students use.

Health Office

For obvious reasons many students avoided going to the Health Office whenever possible. If a student were found to have a fever, they would be sent home to recover. (aka torture!!!) So students went for things like bee stings and sprains and for medication. During these visits, the Health Office staff supplied pretty cups of cold water, and... CANDY! Yes, they gave you candy. The only problem with the Health Office was its location: the basement of the girls' halls. This meant that boys going for morning medications would have to be fob'ed in by RAs (who were waking up and often were outside after the students went for meds) or had to wait for a girl to come down for her meds. For the girls though, it was convenient.

Congrats to 2017 for not having a mono outbreak!

Student Life

Dances

Princeton has three dances, one on each Friday night and one on the last Thursday. The dances are held in a multi-cultural house a few blocks away from the dorms, so the walk was not fun when wearing heels for the dance. It was nice walking back from the dance though because it would be nice and cool outside, so you would be at a comfortable temperature by the time you got back to the dorms.

In 2010, two of the dances were held in Forbes Hall and one somewhere else which the students liked better, but staff didn't. The second location had a much larger dance floor, and was considered to be nicer by many. The author of the passage likes both locations. The first dance of 2010 was a disaster. The DJ played three canon: Cotton-Eyed Joe, Stairway to Heaven and American Pie, in that order. The rest was hip-hop. It was DJed by one of the RA's who had never been to CTY before. Many students complained, however, and the next two were improved and awesome. Word of advice for future CTY Princetoners: ask around first week for who the DJ will be, find them, and plaster them with canon.

In 2015, during the first two dances, held in a nice frat house, the music failed halfway through. In the first dance, this lead to students beat-boxing and creating their own songs, and at the second dance, the class of MOCB B lead about 100 people in a huge rendition of the Hokey Pokey, which had become a tradition for the sausage fest that was MOCB B. All the dances were fantastic, with every student having a great grasp on tradition and it being held in a great venue with great DJing. Also during the first dance, the attempted use of glow-sticks by a student named Tom and the repeated shouts of 'BIG CIRCLE!' led to him receiving the infamous title of 'glow-sticks guy'. On the final dance, when 'Cotton Eye Joe' was played upon request, around 30 boys, lead by the famous members of the Arty Party took off their shirts and danced around for two minutes, ignoring the shouts of RAs trying to restrain them. At the Talent show, 'glow-sticks guy' resurfaced as MC, and he brought the crowd into fits of laughter as he fell while trying to jump onto a stool. Check the My Life is CTY Facebook page for videos of said fall.

In 2017, all of the buildings where dances are held were reserved for other events, so CTY was stuck with a small, two-floor area. The top floor was the dance, with a balcony area from which an SRA watched your every move, and the bottom floor was board games, movie, and a small outside area with strange iced tea, water, and snacks. The first dance was rough, with lights flickering and music being cut off every few seconds. Music was too quiet through all three dances. At the end of every dance, boys were to go down to the first floor to meet with their RAs and walk back to the dorms first, then the girls on the second floor would go. The first dance was cut short in the middle of "American Pie" due to a student crowd-surfing despite RA warnings. After the nevermores sang "Seasons of Love" at the end of that session's talent show, they followed it with singing Happy Birthday to RA Peter, as there was a session-wide running joke about it being his birthday every day - a joke that drove him insane after we sang for him at every single hall meeting. (Needless to say, we made him age - ha!). As for canon, there was a decent amount. Many canon songs were never played, but there was a decent amount. There were no traditional dances done except for a big outer circle during American Pie with a smaller RA circle. We'd do the leg lift thing (RIGHT FOOT FIRST!), and many Lancaster kids would do the chants (turkey hill! not even one! etc), but most of the other kids rushed the RA circle and jumped and joined in on the "sex-orgy" chants. There were three slow canon songs per dance, and since the area was so small, it was hard to avoid RA tapping and flashlights. Stairway to Heaven and Forever Young were always played, as well as Mr. Brightside.

The dances have refreshments. These consist of cookies, chips, sprite, soda, diet soda, and water, which is a nice change from Lancaster dances, which don't even have water other than the water fountain. During the dances, an air-conditioned room plays decent movies, like Jurassic Park and Harry Potter 5.

One year, James Fish was the DJ for every dance. A CTY Carlisle alum, he understood the necessity to play Canon at every dance. He played a lot of hip hop, but that is unavoidable because that's what teenagers like to listen to. But favorites were still thrown in.

Some RAs patrol the dance floor with bright flashlights, or spied on young couples who left the dance floor for some alone time. Other, much more awesome RAs cracked jokes, and let young adults be the young adults they are. Thank you Clay, among the rest of you awesome people, for being reasonable, respectful, and funny.

Activities

In 2010, students had two activities blocks a day: first a daily activity, then a weekly activity. The daily activities included henna tattoos, frisbee, arts and crafts, mafia, swimming, and occasionally silent football, Best activity ever, Worst activity ever, and Fun, which students are not allowed to discuss. Weekly activities included quiet time (a favorite, because it basically meant an hour and a half of free time), ultimate Frisbee, scrap-booking/slideshow work, manipulating objects (glowstringing and contact juggling!), and JC's spoken word workshop.

In 2012, new activities included: CrossFit (a great workout headed by RA Alex), Jog to Einstein's workplace, campus tours, Prison Break, Volleyball, Basketball, cloud watching, advanced moping, hat game. Most of the activities were pretty cheesy, but still fun nonetheless.

In 2015, site-specific activities were weekly, including prison break and treasure hunt. These took place in the main dorm building, and involved escaping without getting shot by a nerf-gun wielding RA in prison break, and finding certain items in the building in the latter activity.

In 2017, there were two activity blocks a day except for on Thursday, when there was a 2 hour double block. Activities included cloud-watching, basketball, pumping iron without iron, prison break, drip drip drop, escape room, letter writing, Disney sing along, ultimate Frisbee, soccer, etc.

Sleepovers

Sleepovers were legal on Friday nights for girls, and Saturday nights for boys. During sleepovers, students were allowed to order pizza and wings from the nearby Dominoes. Illegal sleepovers abounded, such that an entire hall's worth of guys lived in the same room for two weeks, and nobody cared. Yes, I'm referring to the Man Cave.

Many students liked to order pizza and Chinese food to their dorms even on nights when it wasn't legal. This was much easier for boys, as the girls' building housed the administration and health offices.

Another favorite late-night activity was sneaking out to the nearby WaWa to get sandwiches and whatnot. Often, students did not get caught.

On the last night in 2009, DRL Allie legalized inter-hall sleepovers (still single sex, but you could sleep in any room in the building).

Orders were available from Dominoes in 2012.

In 2017, takeout was allowed on the last night. Inter-hall single-sex sleepovers were okay (girls on Friday and boys on Saturday) and people got away with illegal sleepovers with little chance of getting caught. Many snuck out to WaWa or into town in the middle of the night, and many also snuck into dorms for the opposite sex.

Casino Night

Casino Night, a tradition at several CTY sites, traveled to Princeton. The first Saturday of the session, students and staff travel to a dining hall other than Rocky for casino games. A marriage booth is available for $20 (in casino money). Any CTYer who ran out of money and wished to get more approached a Godfather (RAs and staff members) for a task to complete.

As always, a movie option is offered for those uninterested in taking part in the games. Also available was a karaoke room.

Casino night was held on a Saturday night in another house a walk away from the dorms, past the WaWa that some students snuck out to in 2009. Said students returned in 2010 saying that it wasn't worth it, so this was not repeated.

In 2013, EPIB executed Operation Not-A-Heist to rob the bank. The plan did not play well. Students began bribing RAs to jail other students.

In 2017, Casino Night was crowded with barely enough seats for everyone that wanted to play. Everyone wanted to go to Patty's table, because she dealt the best cards, but anyone who didn't want to gamble considered it social time. Many did "tasks" (i.e. doing the chicken dance on stage or messing up RA Jeremy's hair) for money. Marriage booth was interesting, and the horse race was won by RA Allison.

Scavenger Hunt

Another fun weekend activity was the Scavenger Hunt, an event which pretty much had CTY students running around with their halls and grabbing random strangers from the campus in order to have them sing "Bah Bah Black Sheep," recognize the fact that the students lying in weird shapes on the ground spelled out CTY, or being forced to listen to students ask for directions in what turned out to be an 'orrible British accent. There were also non-creepy activities, such as getting a CTY shirt off Boyd's back. He had two, which meant many groups were disappointed. (One group went so far as to take their own CTY shirt, put it on Boyd's back, then take it off, an innovative solution.)

Also on the list were such things as finding a four-leaf clover, a bird feather, a business card, a map, and a flying cow. Yes, a flying cow.

There were several prizes for winning the Scavenger Hunt, such as an extra trip into town and candy.

The Scavenger Hunt ends at the Fountain, which halls must find for themselves within the time limit. If they do not arrive there before time is up, they are disqualified. The scavenger hunt's ending at the fountain was fun because students were hot from running around scavenging, so they jumped into the fountain fully clothed. The wet students were then banned from participating in the next part of mandatory fun (watching a movie in the science building) because they were wet.

There was no Scavenger Hunt in 2017, but there was a "public art scavenger hunt" as an option for one of the activities, which was basically walking around campus with your friends.

Talent Show

The talent show was held on the other Saturday night in McCosh 50. It featured such memorable acts as JC's slam poetry, Dom fighting a bear, Kyle's hall being manly men, the Princeton incarnation of Monty Python Madness, and the Hip-Hop class' performance.

The 2010 talent show was entitled "the Blammies," and was won by Eli Turner for his amazing poetry. You should all bow down to him.

Town Walk

On offer in 2015 was the town walk, where students, accompanied by an RA in groups of their choosing, could walk around town and buy things. It was a nice diversion from normal mandatory fun at other sites, and it was a good way to fill the Sundays.

In 2017, a hall was matched with another hall for town walks. Popular destinations were Urban Outfitters, Starbucks, and Kung Fu Tea.

Traditions

Games

Risk: The board game, played a lot.

Card Games: They were played a lot. Mostly:

  • President (a.k.a. Asshole)
  • B.S.
  • B.S. Poker
  • E.R.S.

Mao (One Card Millard):

  • Rule 1: You're not allowed to discuss the rules.
  • Rule 2: There is no rule 2.
  • Rule 3: You are not allowed to be frustrated by the rules.

Blammo

For all you Lancasterians, Princeton does Blammo. It is organized by the students (AKA our fellow CTYers)

In 2010, it was presided over by Race Archibold and Benjamin Boult. The game was intense. On the morning of Passionfruit, 8 people remained. Two dropped their spoons and ran for their lives and one was eliminated through a silly voice competition. I believe that left 5 finalists, whom all became God. (Correct me if I'm wrong, my memory is failing.)

In 2011, AJ Franchino, Ian MacArthur and Bethia Kwak presided over Blammo. On the morning of Passionfruit, there were approximately 16 players still in the game. Two had forgotten their spoons in the dorms or did not have their entire spoon on them and were eliminated immediately. A few more were eliminated by a "Simon Says" game, and more still by a contest to see who could balance the spoon on their nose. The final six were subjected to a planking contest, which eliminated one player to leave a final five winners (whose names will be posted soon).

In 2012, Oleck was the Blammo God. The game started on the last Monday. By Thursday, there were 47 people left and every place including showers became fair game. By Friday morning, 20 remained. At the end of Passionfruit, spoons no longer protected players and all that was needed to Blammo someone was to tap them with a spoon on their back and say "Blammo!" Some players retreated to their dorms, which leaving those who stayed to duke it out. This CTYer was the last one remaining of those who stayed outside after Passionfruit; however, I got eliminated after another person came down stairs and in a chase I dropped my spoon. I'm not sure if anyone won as Oleck stopped keeping track of who was in.

In 2013, Alfie bought spoons and organized the game with Esti. There were over 80 participants, including the head of site, a good number of RAs, and one somewhat confused TA. Blammo kills were cumulative (as points, to avoid confusion), and after the first purge, new players were added, resulting in a second round of about 80. There were purges Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. At the end of Passionfruit, the winner, Zeyneb Majid, was announced. She had 57 points, but isn't returning to Princeton. An extra, beaten-up box of spoons and the two god Blammo spoons (each being two spoons taped together with pink hello kitty duct tape), were passed down to Abby Menschik and Doug.

In 2017, with all the drama going on with Blammo being shut down at some other sites, Blammo didn't happen at Princeton. Also the fact that there weren't enough people interested, since more than half the people there were first-years.

Life Stories

Asking staff to tell the story of their entire life. If they refused to tell their story, it would be questioned out of them. No subtlety necessary.

Passionfruit

You wake up pre-dawn and go out into the quad to drink Passionfruit juice and discus CTY memories in a circle with no RAs watching the sun rise.

In 2009, the Princeton Passionfruit adopted a combination of the styles of Passionfruit at Lancaster, Carlisle, and Siena. To reflect this, Passionfruit was presided over by two emperors: Rachel Hall (Carlisle) and Julie Leghorn (Lancaster), and an empress, Johnine Licht (Siena).

2010's Passionfruit was held at 5:30am and was organized by Logan Phillips. It featured many an emotional speech, and every single RA present.

In 2017, Passionfruit wasn't organized by a single entity, but enough people bothered the RAs about it that they provided juice and cups for students. People woke up at 5:30 AM and gathered on the patio area of Whitman College. Juice cups were passed around, rather than all being gathered at the center, and people got up in no particular order and talked. RAs and SRAs were present, and it started drizzling halfway. It was bittersweet as some shuttles had to leave in the middle of it.

In 2019, Passionfruit was organized by Sophia Malinsky, while continuing the tradition of 5:30am Passionfruit at Princeton. Several RAs were present and some gave speeches. One humorous speech was cut short as somebody pulled the fire alarm, and CTYers were split into groups, halting Passionfruit. Fruit punch replaced Passionfruit juice. Many people joined after waking up due to the fire alarm.

External Links

Site Information Packet