While I can credit my many late nights in this building for the foundation of some of my most valued friendships, what also stands out in my mind is the interaction we are privileged to have with the graduate students in this program. Sometimes their cool demeanor and tortured intellectual appearance make them seem daunting and unapproachable, but I can say with confidence that the architecture grad students are among the most accessible and sympathetic people that I know. Nowhere else on this campus do graduate students work so closely alongside undergraduates and consider them as their peers, which I find exceptional. Michelle Leong '00 Life here is a fabulous mess, a cacophony of commitments and desires, of things you have to do, things you need to do, things that just happen on their own. The secret is, it's not about picking and choosing.
People come here to savor existence in one of the luckiest communities on earth.
Ed Finn '02 Princeton to me is all about doors. You want access to the resources, the people, the insight, the help, the connections, the skills that the doors wait to reveal. I find that I have a love-hate relationship with the night. Though I would never choose to stay up until 4 A.M., there is something very powerful about being awake in the dead of the night with the noble purpose of getting things done. You begin to feel that you are all alone, that all others are tucked snug in their beds.