Chapter 128: Princeton

The United States is a large country in modern education, and its college education is second to none in the world. Regardless of the purpose and reason for the establishment of these universities, after two or three hundred years of precipitation, many of them can be called world-class universities. Well-known universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to name a few. Among these universities, however, a consortium of seven universities and one college in the northeastern United States known as the Ivy League is one of the most well-known in the world.

The eight universities are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth. The Ivy League, made up of these eight colleges, is one of the most prestigious university leagues in the world. In comparison, only the Russell Group of Universities in the United Kingdom, the League of Eight in Australia, and later the C9 Alliance in China.

Among the eight world-renowned universities, one of the most unique is located in a group of small towns between New York and Philadelphia, and the university named after the town - Princeton University.

What makes Princeton University peculiar is because of its unique culture. Many times, those who look down on Princeton University always use the reason that Princeton is not even a university.

Indeed, the size of Princeton University is indeed very small, and the total number of students, including teachers and professors, does not exceed 10,000, which is a very special school among universities. However, because of the size, the ratio of Princeton students to professors is controlled between 7:1 and 6:1, which also allows Princeton professors to pay attention to the academic performance of each student. As a result, Princeton students at the undergraduate level have a large number of opportunities to be exposed to advanced research and laboratory courses, which are very important for training their research skills.

Another outstanding feature of Princeton University is its curriculum, which is determined not to have the most lucrative schools of law, business, and medical school, thus maintaining a pure research atmosphere at the university. The school is funded mainly by donations from various distinguished alumni. These donations are sufficient to sustain Princeton's huge funding requirements for experimental research.

Another unique feature of Princeton University is that the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton is located next to Princeton University. As a world-class institution of higher learning independent of Princeton University, it is home to some of the world's best scientists, including the world's top academics in research, researchers, and tenured professors. For the students of the University, they are often exposed to the world's most cutting-edge research, and what they learn in this contact are the research results of the world's top scientists and the ideas of the world's greatest scientists, which has a huge impact on them.

In his previous life, as a disciple of Professor Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and as one of the people who regularly went in and out of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, he naturally knew Princeton's campus well. Therefore, after explaining the matter in Toronto, Canada, I entrusted Director Zhang to bring a letter to Professor Cheng, and then set off directly to the international metropolis of New York alone.

Since Princeton University is located in a small town, it would take a two-hour bus transfer to New York to get to the small town of Princeton, New Jersey.

Junxin is very familiar with the town of Princeton, so after getting off the bus, he dragged his luggage and walked around the town casually, and he felt very fresh about the style and appearance of the town of Princeton in the 80s. At least he didn't see the few Chinatown restaurants he was familiar with, and maybe they hadn't opened yet.

But even if he wanted to visit this town that was a little different from what he remembered, Junxin didn't have time to stay, after all, the two-hour bus ride from New York to Princeton had exhausted his energy. The cars of the 80s are really not as comfortable as the cars of the 30s later. So after taking a general look at the small town of Princeton, Junxin dragged his luggage and walked in the direction of the school.

Princeton University does not host volunteers, and all those who come to Princeton have to go to the school on their own. However, the town is not big, and even those who are not familiar with it will know where Princeton University is located if they ask. So soon Junxin dragged his luggage to the door of Princeton University.

Standing in front of the school gate, Junxin couldn't help but think of a very funny joke by Princeton in China. In other words, the name Princeton is directly translated from the English pronunciation, the original name is Princeton, the front Prince means prince, and a suffix is added to the meaning of town. During the Qing Dynasty in China, Prince's translation to China turned out not to be a prince, but to highlight the so-called majesty of the Qing Dynasty, some people insisted on calling Prince, who meant prince, Baylor. The English suffix of the town was translated into Hoard, so in the end Princeton was translated as Prince Hoard, and then as Baylor Hoard.

However, no matter what is translated into the end, it does not affect Princeton's prestige. Even in the world, Princeton is one of the top universities. In the U.S. university rankings, it has even surpassed Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, etc., and ranked first in the United States several times.

Before and after World War II, a large number of European scholars moved to the United States, and the center of the world's scholarship moved from Europe to the United States, Princeton seized this opportunity, the arrival of the famous physicist Albert Einstein, and the influx of a large number of mathematicians and physicists, making Princeton University quickly become the world's center of mathematics and physics. Today, Princeton has experienced more than 30 years of ups and downs, and is still the center of mathematics and physics in the world. Feynman, Yang Zhenning, Dyson and now Witten are among the world's top physicists. Wyles, Griffith, Faltins, and others are among the top mathematicians in the world. Based on these two points, the first school Junxin chooses to study abroad will always be Princeton and not other universities.

After completing the procedures for entering the school, it was already past six o'clock in the evening, and since he had not contacted other exchange students in advance, Junxin did not bother them. I simply asked the dormitory manager for the address of the exchange student from China, and then put my luggage in the dormitory, plunged into the bed, and fell asleep after a while.