I read, at my roommate's urging, this old Atlantic Monthly article on today's Princeton kid.
Here's the article.
It's spot-on in most ways. We're supposed to be cheerful workaholics, seeking to please authority, obsessed with success and lacking a sense of sin. We're compared to the Edwardians -- and it's true that some of Kipling's short stories about young officers in the Raj sound like they could have been written about my Woody Woo classmates.
I was never an Organization Kid by temperament. But I do know people who fit the model almost perfectly -- and yet are a lot more alive and interesting than the article's generalizations. Not everyone with a busy schedule is soulless! It's always kind of sad to have your identity defined by a journalist, even when he does a better job than most.
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