What is social life like for graduate students at Princeton?
Princeton is unusual in that there is a focal point for graduate student residential and social life, the Graduate College, or GC. Most single first-year graduate students live in the GC, which is a dormitory-style complex, and there are thus plenty of opportunities for meeting people through living and dining with each other. Some students elect to live in one of the on-campus apartments, yet still enjoy the wealth of social events that the GC provides, such as weekly social hours, movie nights, intramural sports, and activities ranging from knitting and bridge to canoeing and trips to the Jersey shore. Therefore the social life for Princeton graduate students is very communal. There is a small school atmosphere in which most graduate students know most others and it is also a very supportive environment, with much camaraderie among students.
