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Eating Clubs and Room Parties
The nightlife is very dependent on your own personal preferences. The main scene is Prospect Street, or "the Street," where all the eating clubs are. There are 10 eating clubs currently open and each has a distinctive atmosphere and membership. I think Princeton gets a terrible rap as being elitist because of these eating clubs, but I've found that they are much more inclusive than I once believed. Freshmen and sophomores often throw room parties if they can't get passes to an eating club, though many clubs don't require passes at all and are thus most populated by freshman on a night out. Some of the eating clubs are deemed more exclusive because most of the people in them are on sports teams or are in certain sororities/fraternities, thus they're only exclusive insofar as you need to be in one of those groups to get in. My club is filled with theater kids, the debate team, Woody Woo majors, and surprisingly, mechanical aerospace engineers. Certain clubs are dominated by Asians, others by whites, others by Asians and Indians, etc. The one demographic that is really missing from the eating club scene is the black community, and I can't speak for why that is. I did gospel choir my freshman year and I know most of those students weren't interested because of the importance of alcohol at the parties. But the school is really trying hard to make the street open to everyone regardless of religious persuasion, financial ability, race, etc., and I think it's only going to get more inclusive down the road. There isn't much going on in the town of Princeton in terms of bar life, but seniors go to Triumph a lot, which is essentially a beer garden. One thing I will say is the school and public safety are excellent about keeping students safe. They don't care if you're underage and drinking, but they care that you get help if you need it.
Aug 14, 2011
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