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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Princeton 30 years ago. The social environment is challenging and competitive in a below the surface way. There is a lot of snubbing that goes on. The eating clubs drive this. It can be a cold place. I would have sent my kids just for the career opportunities if they got in (they never actually applied) but I’m glad they are at different schools. A lot of otherwise socially successful people struggled there. The gothic dorms, cold winters and heavy workloads don’t help. [/quote]

Also went and agree 100% with this. I had mental health struggles there, which I did not have before nor since. It wasn’t about academic pressure at all for me, I did very well and that’s not my personality. For me it was about social/living stuff and social climate: being surrounded by ultra thin girls with very disordered eating, gross living conditions, and heavy drinking and hookup culture that was normalized/celebrated. It just wasn’t great for me. I also had several assistant professors and visiting lecturers who were consumed by stress about their tenure and career prospects and talked about their own problems openly and often, to the point where feeling bad for them was my main takeaway from their classes. I made good friends and had some great experiences as well but often felt at odds with the prevailing culture, which pp describes well.

I’m sure it’s different now in many ways though.[/quote]

Pp here. Maybe I know you. The eating disorders were truly rampant. It’s a very idiosyncratic culture and it’s impossible for anyone to understand unless you’ve had exposure to it… Things have probably changed but whatever energy this was is probably hard to kill [/quote]
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I went to a SLAC and really had none of this. Ended up in ny and was roommates w/ a group of Princeton girls that I had met in my summer analyst program. They all continued the eating disorders after college. It really was normalized within their group. I ended up moving out to a studio bc it’s not fun to share a bathroom with a group like that [/quote]

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