A Week in the Life of a Princeton University Student

Heylooo~ my name is Preeta :) I'm currently a junior at Princeton University in the Neuroscience department and on the pre-med track. Follow me along to all of my classes and activities during a very normal week in my life as a Princeton undergraduate student. This was all filmed April of 2017 when I was in my sophomore Spring semester. The footage was super long and I lost motivation quite a few times (oops) along the way which is why I'm uploading this my junior Fall. The footage is of pretty poor quality; I'm a broke college student y'all. I couldn't afford a GoPro but bought a similar action camera that I could bring into classes with me without arising any suspicion or alarm. I'm still really new to vlogging in public so I avoided talking to the camera because I feel super embarrassed vlogging in front of other people lol. Also the camera movement is super shaky at certain points, sorry about that. I turned my stabilizer off for a certain part and then forgot to turn it back on for a little while. If you're confused about any of the terms I used in this video like 'precept', 'Princeton Preview', 'individual sessions', 'drill', I'll explain them a little more in depth below! Princeton Preview: An event in April for seniors in high school who applied and got accepted to Princeton to come, attend (a select number of) classes, sleep over with a host student, go to club open houses and looks around campus to help make a decision. It takes place over 2 days. Late meal: A meal option for those on the dining hall meal plans. If you can't make it to lunch or dinner (since our dining halls are only open for certain periods of time) you can go to late meal in our campus center and order meals or snacks. Late meal happens right after lunch or dinner closes. It does cost money though, unless you are on the unlimited meal plan (which all freshman are required to have). Precept: In large classes, especially introductory classes, in order to ensure that students get more attention from an instructor, students sign up for a precept in which lecture materials may be reviewed over with a graduate TA. Precept activities range but they're basically just small-group sessions run by a graduate student. Individual Sessions: I think this may be unique to East Asian languages but these are one-on-one sessions with a professor that last for 10-20 minutes. They allow the language professors to evaluate how the student is improving in conversation skills and allows the student to practice. Drill: Also probably unique to the East Asian languages. For Korean, drill classes were classes that emphasized practicing talking with our classmates, as compared to lecture where we were introduced to grammar patterns and vocabulary and didn't really do much conversing. In Chinese, drill class was recitation of the textbook and a dictation quiz for the chapter covered that week. -------------------------------------- CONNECT WITH ME! My other Youtube channel:    / @preetaxyz   Instagram:   / pre.eta   Snapchat Username: pre.eta Soundcloud:   / lovesinging98   --------------------------------------- A Day in the Life Princeton University Princeton Dorm Princeton Campus Princeton Classes Ivy League Harvard Yale Brown Columbia Cornell UPenn College