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Hi, I’m John
Finance major hired by JPMorgan Chase a year before graduation Professor Mayo will come right up to you in Working Capital Finance and ask a question. Then he’ll go to the next person to support you or disagree. He might ask the entire row before he confirms the correct answer. You have to be prepared and engaged. My friends taking the same course at another university check Facebook in class. —John Rizzi Rizzi in front of the New York Stock Exchange 2
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Hi, I’m Nivi Interactive multimedia major tapped as Amazon UX designer after auspicious internship
One of my projects was to rethink Amazon’s Selling Coach widget, a recommendation tool for merchants. I held a design lab, which brings together project stakeholders to brainstorm and tease out requirements. It was a great experience for me to lead that. —Niveda Harishankar
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Hi, I’m Mi-Yeon International studies major who backed a year’s study in China with intensely competitive U.S. grants
I’ve taken two courses with Professor of History Jodi Weinstein, one of which was an independent course on Sino-North Korean relations—an interest we both share. Her letters of recommendation for three scholarships were pivotal: I received all of them. —Mi-Yeon Park
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Y
ou already know if TCNJ
The blend of mentored intellectual
is right for you. You’re the
pursuit and value makes TCNJ a rare find:
student who stands out in
a public college offering the exemplary
high school for welcoming an intellectual
education of an elite private school—
challenge. Deepening your grasp of the world
without the price tag.
feels good; it excites you. That attitude, paired
It makes for an incredible college experience.
The TCNJ Way is…
This urge to go that much further is such
Sky’s the limit 8 Everywhere 18 Warm 24
a point of pride, we even have a name for it:
Successful 34 Take charge 40 Winning 48
The TCNJ Way.
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with restless curiosity, is a bedrock mindset among the students with whom you’ll go to class and the professors who’ll lead the way.
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CLOUDSOURCED An ice crystal viewed at the atomic level with a customized microscope— one unique to TCNJ—is helping physics professor Nate Magee and his team understand how the light it scatters might affect climate.
Sky’s the limit
We are small enough to dote on you, but our expectations are outsized: At TCNJ, you will add to the world’s collected knowledge. With our help, of course.
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Communication majors Kristen Kiernicki, Amanda Burd, and Janna Raudenbush study the connection between the prevalence of AIDS in African countries and the degree to which each government controls the media. Their findings later appear in a paper presented at Oxford.
2 3 Interactive multimedia major Josh Lewkowicz makes a short film, wins a national Campus MovieFest award for special effects, and, after graduation, heads to DreamWorks in Los Angeles to follow his bliss.
Chemistry major Dylan Nguyen investigates a protein involved in blood clotting—the von Willebrand factor—at TCNJ’s Mentored Undergraduate Summer Experience. By August, he kills in his ability to think more broadly than ever before. Watch Nguyen at admissions.tcnj.edu/dylan.
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about The TCNJ Way Understanding Modern Iran, a First-Year Seminar, thoroughly captivates Rob Handerhan. That summer he’s off to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. He soon designs his own major: Persianate studies.
Aspiring geneticist Syndi Barish is invited to attend a summer research institute at New York’s Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, where she presents her research and dines at the home of James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.
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Cookie-cutter education? No, thanks
Up to 75% of students do research with faculty
It’s true. With few graduate students on hand, TCNJ flings convention aside and makes advanced opportunities available to undergraduates. Why label, we say. Be open about what rouses you, and you’ll find outstanding faculty here who can mentor and, very likely, take you on as a junior research collaborator. The TCNJ Way takes you further faster.
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Thrilled
your reaction to having contributed to a better understanding of our world
YOU’RE ON Folake Ayiloge co-presented at a recent University of Pennsylvania conference on cultural partnerships between universities and their cities with her professor, documentary filmmaker Lorna Johnson–Frizell. Watch @frosted_folakes at admissions.tcnj.edu/folake.
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Our Five Signature Experiences define a TCNJ education. The first two are universal experiences, and you select from the rest based on your own interests. But what appeals overall, in the words of business major Jessie Geevers, are TCNJ’s “endless opportunities.” ›
personalized, collaborative, and rigorous education
› undergraduate research, mentored internships, and field experiences ›
community-engaged learning
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global engagement
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leadership development
Arts and Communication
Engineering
Art education Art history Communication studies Interactive multimedia Music Education Performance Visual arts Fine arts, graphic design, lens-based arts
Business
Biomedical engineering Civil engineering Computer engineering Electrical engineering Engineering science Management Policy and society iSTEM education Mechanical engineering Technology education/ pre-engineering
Nursing, Health, and Exercise Science
African American studies Criminology English History International studies Journalism and professional writing Philosophy Political science Psychology Sociology Spanish Women’s and gender studies
Health and exercise science Nursing Public health
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Accountancy Business administration Finance Interdiscplinary business Management Marketing Economics
Education
Humanities and Social Sciences
Early childhood education Education of the deaf and hard of hearing Elementary education Special education Urban education option
Science Biology Chemistry Computer science Mathematics Physics
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Majors with a teacher certification option, five-year master of arts in teaching program, and seven-year MD and optometry programs: admissions.tcnj.edu/ academics
majors
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These two are classmates One of our humanities courses matches you with a professor to do research and attend a weekly class together, where you are drawn deep, over bagels and juice, into freewheeling discussions with other student-professor pairs. Sounds like graduate school to us.
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SHARPEN YOUR WITS Plaid-clad undergrad Steven Thompson and Professor of English Michael Robertson team up in class.
Every where
Global study at TCNJ is more popular than ever before. We’ve seen international experiences—both full-semester programs and shorter TCNJ faculty-led trips on themes such as apartheid in South Africa and the Armenian genocide— spike by nearly 30 percent. Our 500-plus choices include China, Haiti, France, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, and South Africa. We dare you to choose just one.
CUBA, SÍ TCNJ students headed for Havana just days after President Obama announced that the U.S. would normalize relations with the country in 2015.
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Still life with study-abroad iguana Biology major Andrew Goldfarb (center) does global studies in an epic way. Freshman year, he starts with a Holocaust study tour through Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, where he earns honors credit for lecturing to his peers on the science and pseudoscience of the Third Reich. Sophomore year, it’s the Netherlands to study genetic disorders in a lab. Summer before senior year, he’s in The Galápagos (pictured), where he picks up Darwin’s trail, the spot that sparked the botanist’s theory of evolution.
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Warm In a recent poll about why students chose us, the top answer—flat out—was, “It felt like home.”
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aybe this default friendliness gets ingrained during Welcome Week, an intense, headlong introduction to college that launches lifelong friendships— and, years later, even marriage proposals. (No lie.) Or maybe it’s innate. For the last two years, TCNJ has landed on GrubHub’s Top 20 Most Polite Colleges in the nation based on the number of students who say “please” and “thank you” when placing delivery orders.
CULTURE SHOCK Communication studies major Lindsay Thomas tweets about summer break away from campus.
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4 Seasons Once home to woods and wheat fields, our compact 289 acres, sheltered by a canopy of trees, look fantastic blanketed in fresh snow (top left). Under a cerulean sky, Alumni Grove (top right) is an ideal study spot. Most campus buildings are in homage to the Georgian Colonial architecture of Green Hall (bottom left). TCNJ has two small lakes (bottom right), where you can take part in a Chinese lantern launch—or just relax.
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What matters most? Having a professor who cares about you as a person and gets you excited about learning actually doubles the chances you will “thrive in all areas of well-being,” according to a recent Gallup/Purdue University poll of college graduates. You can count on this happening at TCNJ. In the words of one senior: “My professors have always had my back. I cannot thank them enough.”
BUSINESS PARTNER TO THE ENVIRONMENT A TCNJ graduate with a thirst for surfing, Matt Scapardine took inspiration from management professor David Prensky and lined up a job at Bloomberg LP before he put on his cap and gown. Watch Matt at admissions.tcnj.edu/matt.
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Employers: American Cancer Society American International School in Kuwait Atlantic Health System Bank of America Bloomberg Deloitte JPMorgan Chase Johnson & Johnson Lockheed High Incomes High Graduation Rates The College Scorecard spotlights TCNJ as one of just two small public colleges nationwide that have high graduation rates leading to high incomes.* See where our students head after graduation. We’re pretty proud.
Martin L’Oréal USA Lululemon New Jersey school districts Peace Corps Penguin Random House Picatinny Arsenal St. Barnabas Healthcare System TV Land U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Wells Fargo
* U.S. Department of Education admissions.tcnj.edu/highincomes
Graduate schools: Boston University Columbia University Cornell University Harvard Johns Hopkins Penn State Princeton Rutgers Seton Hall Law School TCNJ University of Pennsylvania University of Virginia Yale
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TCNJ loves entrepreneurs this much Peter Okoh knows a lot about winning. When he was a teen in Nigeria, his family won a diversity visa lottery to emigrate to the U.S. As a TCNJ sophomore, he and two partners took second place in the Mayo Business Plan Competition— the college’s version of Shark Tank—for a barbershop hangout in Campus Town. A biomechanical engineering major now working on a brain-controlled wheelchair, Okoh might consider entering again: The current cash prize pot is $50,000—the largest in New Jersey higher education.
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Take charge
COMMITTED TO THE CORE Nursing major Edric Vites is a TCNJ Bonner Community Scholar, one of more than 100 who perform meaningful community service in exchange for financial aid.
Effecting change is a powerful, in-demand skill you can build by working to better a community or by strengthening your leadership abilities. Both endeavors are at the core of a TCNJ education.
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hours of Bonner Scholars’ service over the last decade
For the common good Community is ingrained in our culture—and our curriculum. You can get started as early as Welcome Week. We offer volunteer spots at more than 15 long-term partner sites, and community–engaged-learning projects are built in to more than 40 classes. How committed are we? TCNJ grants scholarships to our go-to crew: the 100-student-strong Bonner Community Scholars Corps.
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Boat pond
side benefit of the flood-prevention basin for South Dakota’s Crow Creek Indian Reservation being designed by TCNJ Humanitarian Engineers
PASSION TO SERVE In the last decade, more than 1,000 TCNJ students have hit the road to help New Orleans heal post-Katrina.
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To baldly go ‌ Community service goes well beyond the classroom. Twenty-five fraternity brothers shaved their heads to raise money for pediatric cancer research through St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
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Goal
Amount raised
$3,000 >$5,600
A healthy disregard for the impossible TCNJ-tailored leadership programs bring out your inner leader, connecting you with your own capacity to spark real change. Even better? Leadership encompasses the very skills—the ability to envision, build consensus, and direct action toward an achievable goal—that prove your value within organizations, from workplace to community.
Operation Lead Program for a select group of first-year students to build their leadership potential
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Percentage of students who called TCNJ’s six-day LeaderShape Institute “valuable”
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Cost to attend the LeaderShape Institute for participants
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Winning We like to think we get athletics right. As an NCAA Division III school, we see student-athletes as being spurred on by both intellectual and physical challenge. We offer 20 varsity sports, racking up 89 national championships: 40 team, 49 individual. Want to help us win more?
MEN’S
WOMEN’S
Baseball
Swim & Dive
Basketball
Softball
Basketball
Tennis
Cross Country
Swim & Dive
Cross Country
Track & Field
Field Hockey
Tennis
Football
Wrestling
Lacrosse
Track & Field
Soccer
Despite having a seed time more than seven seconds slower than the team to beat, the members of our TCNJ men’s freestyle relay team each swam the fastest 200 meters of their lives, taking home an NCAA National Championship.
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Coach: Brian Bishop, the only men’s swim coach the college has ever had, recently won the distinguished NCAA Division III National Swimming Coach of the Year award.
Field hockey made NCAA history by being the first team to win the National Championship without allowing any opponent goals throughout the four-game tournament. The player hugging the trophy, Lindsey Hatch, was later nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year.
Coach: TCNJ alumna Sharon Pfluger recently hit 1,000 career wins as coach of not one, but two teams: field hockey and lacrosse.
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Not to put any pressure on prospective pigskin players, but our team is tough on opponents and on academics. Case in point: A defensive lineman who played all four years and started all 10 games his senior year graduated recently with a 3.9 GPA. In finance.
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Coach: Wayne Dickens came to TCNJ with both NCAA Division I and II coaching experience, despite starting as a college coach at age 42.
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At TCNJ, the immersive experience of discerning who you want to be is happening simultaneously for the rest of your classmates. Then, mix this heady dynamic with our vibrant campus life. This is what gives rise to friendships that last a lifetime.
150+ clubs: All-College Theatre American Medical Student Association Black Student Union Circle K Circus Club College Union Board (the people who bring many bold-faced names
Endless “Infinite” pretty much describes the ways you can spend your free time at TCNJ. But we’ll keep quiet on the countless personal and professional advantages this offers you. That would spoil the fun.
to campus, below) Hillel Lions TV Muslim Student Group New Jersey Christian Fellowship Order of the Nose-Biting Teacups Pre-Law Society student newspaper The Signal Student New Jersey Education Association Union Latina Student Organization Water Watch Women in Learning and Leadership WTSR 91.3 FM—plus, that new club you’ll launch 30+ intramural teams and sports clubs: Baseball cheerleading crew dance team fencing flag football ice hockey rugby softball swimming table tennis Ultimate Frisbee Greek life: 15 sororities 13 fraternities 2 co-ed groups Recent bold-faced names on campus: Actor and director Zach Braff Laverne Cox of Orange Is the New Black Etsy creative director Randy Hunt Ice-T Jerry of Ben and Jerry’s Journalist Soledad O’Brien Panic! at the Disco Paramore Transparent’s Jeffrey Tambor UGGs founder Brian Smith activist Cornel West
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Life hacks: Recharge and relax Try spaces that nourish your soul, like TCNJ’s Art Gallery (top left) or our Spiritual Center. Dine at our award-winning food court (top right) at Eickhoff Hall, a.k.a. Eick, which serves up clean food like Mongolian grill, tacos, fresh salads, and classic fare—with a website that displays Nutrition Facts. A new 12,000-square-foot fitness center (bottom right) is key to reenergizing (better yet: studies link regular exercise to mental acuity). Or head to Campus Town, a new expansive retail and apartment complex bordering campus that has us pretty excited. You’ll find Panera, RedBerry Frozen Yogurt, Yummy Sushi, pub/restaurant Brick Wall, Mexican Mariachi Grill, plus others—and everything you need for a weekend getaway: bank, car rental, and, of course, nail salon. A Barnes & Noble (bottom left) serving Starbucks is fitting, given that GrubHub calls TCNJ the sixth-most caffeinated campus in the country.
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Float your boat Design savvy? Luck? Excess optimism? Just what does it take to be a Cardboard Regatta champ? Find out each spring, when teams vie for victory in blessedly shallow Lake Ceva. (Tip for success: join a team with engineering majors.) 61
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New Jersey State Police Museum Called “the nation’s favorite soap opera” by TCNJ alumnus Mark Falzini, the 1932 kidnapping and murder of famed minutes aviator Charles Lindbergh’s toddler son is preserved—including the ladder used for the break-in—at the New Jersey State Police Museum, headed by Falzini.
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Quaker Bridge Mall Could there be anything more Jersey than a mall? The closest one is Lawrenceville’s Quaker Bridge Mall, with 90-plus stores, including Apple, H&M, Coach, Foot Locker, and Teavana.
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Slocum’s Bowl-O-Drome A TCNJ institution, Slocum’s is an unpretentious, minutes old-school bowling alley with 12 lanes and decent food.
Eet Gud Bakery Even the most saintly student can be tempted by the sweets sold in this pink-neon legend. Do not skip the crème-filled doughnuts.
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Halo Farm Ice Cream Chocolate Heath Bar, Lemon Cream Sorbet, and Madagascar minutes Vanilla are some of the 50-plus choices to try at Halo Farm, a family operation known for eschewing antibiotics and artificial anything.
Destination: Jersey 15 minutes
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Labyrinth Books A Princeton must-see, this independent bookstore is in thrall to words on paper. The store stocks titles that skew scholarly as well as popular titles. IQs jump just by being here.
Apple picking at Terhune Orchards CBS New York calls this farm one of the five best in the tri-state area. It’s not unheard of to leave with a bag of addictive, sugar-crusted cider donuts.
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DeLorenzo’s Tomato Pies DeLo’s doesn’t make pizza, rather they put out the state’s best thin-crusted tomato pies, which give star billing to the famous Jersey tomato.
Deepen your Jerseyness by experiencing a dozen nearby Garden State legends. Approximate travel time by car listed.
Washington’s Crossing Re-enactment Each December, re-enactors don Continental Army uniforms and stage George Washington’s 1776 push through a half-frozen Delaware River to launch a surprise—and successful—attack on Britain’s Hessian troops.
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Delaware-Raritan Canal State Park Bike, hike, or canoe the Delaware-Raritan Canal. Start in Princeton, head north for 15 miles, and you’ll reach Rutgers. Or slow down and look for wildlife.
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Jersey Shore It’s difficult to say which shore towns are the best, but two stand out: Asbury Park, for its music history (think Springsteen and iconic venue The Stone Pony), and Wildwood for its boardwalk.
Yours
If you’ve made it this far, you know that community means everything to us. A warm and supportive environment undergirds The TCNJ Way, for if you are to connect with your greatest potential, having people who’ve got your back means the world. Can you see yourself here?
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TCNJ: Private feel.
7,406 students
91 percent are undergraduates. Seventy percent rank in the top 20 percent of their high school graduating class, and average SAT scores range from 1130 to 1360. Students of color comprise approximately 25 percent of the most recent class.
Public cost. Get your app in We’ll be so pleased if you consider continuing your education with us. You’ll find important dates, as well as step-by-step application instructions for in- and out-of-state, transfer, and international students at admissions.tcnj.edu/apply.
Watch our campus video
#1
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percentage of 2014 students returning sophomore year
Our welcome mat is out in this brief, student-produced tour at admissions.tcnj.edu.
U.S. News & World Report 2016 (Public, Northeast region)
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“A public college in the mold of William & Mary”
Office of Admissions
Compare TCNJ’s costs with those at schools across the country. admissions.tcnj.edu/valuecalculator
Fulbright distinction Top producer of Fulbright Scholars, 2014–2015 Chronicle of Higher Education
2016 Fiske Guide to Colleges
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The only N.Y. metro area public college in the top 10
“Stands out for affordability” Princeton Review’s Colleges That Pay You Back 2015
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Money Magazine’s The 25 Public Colleges Where Students Graduate the Fastest 2015
“One of the most highly regarded public liberal arts colleges in the Northeast” Forbes’ Top Colleges, 2015
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“National leader in undergraduate research” Winner of the inaugural Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments Council on Undergraduate Research, Washington, DC
Questions? We have answers. P.O. Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 609.771.2131 tcnjinfo@tcnj.edu
Learn about financial aid As a public school founded in 1855, TCNJ has a public mission— we exist to serve fellow citizens. We take seriously our responsibility to be an engine of social mobility for our state, to educate future leaders, and to offer students an exemplary education. We work hard to be efficient and keep close tabs on tuition. Approximately 75 percent of our students receive merit or need-based scholarships. Find scholarships and eligibility requirements at financialaid.tcnj.edu.
Come see us We offer a rolling schedule of TCNJ Ambassador-led campus tours and open houses. Find dates and details on traveling via trains, planes, and automobiles at admissions.tcnj.edu/visit.
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ILLUSTRATION
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PHOTOGRAPHY @alyssajfreitas @jillianhopes @sophiecoy @tcnjcub @thesarlew Bill Cardoni Lynn DeLade Dustin Fenstermacher Matt Furman Jack Meyers Mike Morgan Peter Murphy Nick Romanenko This book was printed on Finch Opaque, a 30% post-consumer, FSC- and SFI-certified paper.
Hi, I’m Britta Self-designed religious studies major and Circus Club founder Video | admissions.tcnj.edu/britta
I probably hoop too much for my own good, but it’s my favorite thing. So if I’m writing a paper and I get stuck, I’ll go and hoop for two minutes and then run back upstairs. Or if I have an hour between classes, I’ll usually be in the driveway with my hoops. —Britta Nippert
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FUNIVAL!! TCNJ’s annual spring event takes the edge off imminent finals.