In response to: Building Boom Adding Space for Sciences, Engineering, and More
Current issue
November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
On the one hand, I’d love to be 18 and matriculating to undertake STEM education in today’s world. On the other, it looks like, even for an 18-year-old, getting around to all the places on campus and in town that an undergraduate wants to routinely go to will require something more capable than the simple three-speed bike that did the job in the 1960s — an electric bike perhaps?
I discovered at my last reunion in 2019 that it was a mistake not to prearrange the regular services of a golf cart. I did not notice the differences in elevation from one spot on campus to another when I was an undergraduate, but at my present age getting about seems to constantly require walking uphill — something I find I am even less able to accomplish today.