Which is what I keep telling myself, every Tuesday and Thursday morning. International relations is a great class. And all those rumors about the professor being a communist probably stem from disgruntlement over the midterm essay prompts. International relations has been a novel experience for me, and not just because it's the first class I've taken in which the professor has seized upon every opportunity to work the names of former Soviet republics into his lectures. It's also the first class I've taken at Princeton where my precept hasn't been led by the professor.
Most preceptors are graduate students.
Alex, who leads my Tuesday night precept, is not. He is in his early 20s and works for Merrill Lynch. He does offshore trading. From what I understand, that means helping people in London and Tokyo make the kind of investments that are illegal in this country. He's not a grad student.