With this letter I am sending you warmest greetings and a big “Welcome to Forbes”! The entire College Staff is eagerly looking forward to your joining the College as freshmen this Fall semester.
As Master, my goal is to foster a community at Forbes that is safe, comfortable and supportive, while at the same time offering plenty of opportunities for everyone to engage in new and exciting intellectual and cultural experiences. Each year the Forbes community is rebuilt in a process of complex collaboration of the Forbes Staff, Faculty Fellows, residential Graduate Student Fellows and most importantly you, the members of the undergraduate student body. I invite you to fully participate in College life during the coming year.
I will be greeting you all in person once you have moved in just before the fall semester begins; throughout the academic year, I hope to see you and talk to you in the Dining Hall or the College Office. I shall also be inviting you, at some point during your first semester, to the Master's Lodge for dinner, together with the college staff and your fellow "zees" (i.e. members of your resident adviser’s group).
Undoubtedly, many of you are now enjoying the respite of the summer holidays; continue to enjoy whatever you are doing, but also savor the prospect of coming up to Princeton at summer’s end!
With all good wishes,
Christian Wildberg Professor of Classics and Master of Forbes College
Forbes College is one of Princeton University's six residential colleges. (We like to think of ourselves as the best college west of Alexander Road.) Forbes is located on the site of the historic Princeton Inn, a gracious hotel overlooking the Princeton golf course. The Princeton Inn, originally constructed in 1924, played regular host to important symposia and gatherings of renowned scholars from both the University and the nearby Institute for Advanced Studies for many years. Forbes currently houses over 400 undergraduates and a number of resident graduate students in its residential halls, providing a lucky sixth of the Princeton community with a large dining hall, library, dark room, pottery studio, numerous study spaces and an uncanny sense of home away from home.
Explore this site for a deeper sense of all that Forbes has to offer, or take the walk over to University Place and Alexander Road to come see for yourself!
