Egotistical Princeton Freshman Wants to Rule the World
It’s a fact of life: Facebook has made incoming Ivy League freshmen retarded – at least until they arrive on campus and reveal how awkward and un-cool they truly are. Meet “Stephany Her RoyalHighness,” Princeton ‘12, author of a ludicrous post on the discussion board of the Princeton 2012 Facebook group. She writes:
Dear Class of 2012,
I only hold you to the same standards I hold myself to and I HATE being disappointed.
Having said that, do not let ANYONE tell you that you are not better than them, because you are. We are the elite, we are the 0.0000001% of the world who have spent the last four years of our lives either blackmailing or working our asses off. There was something that got you here—whether it was daddy’s money or your #1 ranking in the nation, you are here and you are better. You have mercilessly beaten out your friends, your girlfriends, your boyfriends, your brothers, your sisters and every one you have loved. Don’t apologize for it, revel in it. YOU. ARE. BETTER. Why deny it?
Don’t be held back now—you are in your prime. Starting from the first day you step on campus, there is no past, there is no judgment. You are beautifully brand new. Wherever you came from, whatever you have been through, whoever you knew: that counts for nothing now. It only matters who you are now.
Try everything once: Pilates, squash, open mic night, tantric sex. What do you have to lose? When you risk everything, you have anything to gain.
If someone says you can’t. Don’t answer. Walk away and prove them wrong.
Princeton is famous for its elitism and for fostering loyalty among its students and alumni but “Stephany” – if there’s really an incoming Princeton freshman behind that facile alias – is someone different altogether. Read her post in its entirety after the jump.
Laws are nothing but restrictions: break every one you possibly can. The only order is the one that you make. The only resolution you’ll ever find is within yourself. The only satisfaction you’ll ever discover is the one you create. Never look to others for leadership, take control yourself. Never have regrets, because at some point, what you did is what you wanted. Don’t just take responsibility for your actions, take pride in every little mistake, every little stumble because it just means it won’t happen again.
We all have weakness, accept it. But to be able to overcome it—that’s where we’re different. We don’t let it hold us back. Pain is weakness leaving the body. That ache in your muscles? The ripped papers? The taste of blood on your lips? The broken condom? The fatigue in your bones? Those are the victories. Life is a beautiful game and you sure as hell are winning. Just make sure it stays that way.
You beat out everyone else’s best. Now, it’s about beating you own best. I know it’s not weakness or failure you fear but your own brilliance, your own divinity. You ask yourself, who are you think to that you are beautiful? Extraordinary? You have every right, because that’s exactly what you are. Never fear your potential. Never fear your pinnacle.
Don’t take things so seriously, but don’t take them so lightly either. You trip up and fall? Don’t lick your wounds—display them. It means you’re a competitor. You’re bleeding? You better hope you’re not anywhere close to carpet because there’s a lot more cuts where that came from. This is life— you fall down seven times, you get up eight. This is life—there is no such thing as failure, only a 100th try. This is life—no one gets out alive anyway, so you better hope you fucking live before you’re dead.
Power cannot be given, only taken, for the taking of power is empowerment itself. Power is only tiring to those who don’t have it, so make sure you always have the upper hand. Neither fatigue nor excuses are weaknesses that we allow. You think Duke Wellington said “I’m too hung over to go to battle” the morning of Waterloo? You think D-Day was on June 6th because someone procrastinated from May 30th?
You don’t like something? Stop bitching. CHANGE it.
You’ve conquered all? Stop wondering. RAISE the bar.
Someone beat you? Stop rolling in self-pity. Get back up and OBLITERATE them.Indulge. Enjoy. Fester.
Boys and Girls, there are no rules to this game. Someone crosses you? It’s BURN BITCH BURN. But remember there are very few people out there worth an excess of energy or emotion. Pick the right ones.
This is the death of dynasty. The authorities may make the rules, they may think they have control, but we cannot forget we are Princeton. We are her blood and her bile. And we are the generation they have never seen before.
We are the anti-Christs to save the world from the mercy of God, the self-pity that festers within the masses. Religion is the opiate of the masses, so drug them until they are nothing but slaves at your will. You have deserved this. You are Hitler the fourth, Alexander the Great the Second, Napoleon the Fifth, here to destroy the world we know.
We are history because we are the winners.And don’t let them forget it.
My love now and forever,
Your highness.
Is this a call to arms? Against Harvard and Yale and the rest of the Ivy League? Will we soon see the rising of a Princetonian-only nation state? The enslavement of the rest of the world? Or is this simply a brilliant satire against the inanity of Princeton’s freshmen? Quick, someone friend Stephany Her RoyalHighness and find out the truth.
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August 13th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Looks like the Princeton class of 2012 forgot to close their group. That, or they’ve reached a new low in snobbery.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
“you fall down seven times, you get up eight” is an unforgivable non sequitur.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hey, she’s not the only person in public life who thinks that a little charming oratory makes her qualified to rule the US. =]
August 13th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Reading the snippet I thought she was trying to be cute. But then, reading the whole post, I thought, Leopold and Loeb. For those of you uninitiated, a young gay couple of precious University of Chicago brats fancy themselves as the Superman and kill their cousin. Well it turns out that the Superman is not above the “slave morality” and gets convicted of their “perfect crime.” But I see the same sort of delusions of grandeur here.
For more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb
August 13th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Fairly ridiculous. Frankly I’m interested in a follow-up. I mean, all the recruited athletes better watch their backs, because if this chick practices what she preaches, the walk-on tryouts are going to be FIERCE. I think she’s full of it. That said, is Princeton any more known for elitism and douchebaggery than the rest? I’m sure Harvard and Yale have their share of Stephanys too.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Kind of crazy, but also kind of refreshing in the face of the usual “success guilt” that goes around the Ivy League. In any event, I’m ordering our 1st Battalion to the Jersey border… sounds like war to me.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I think this is probably intended as a joke.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Can whoever tipped this (or any P’12ers for that matter) get us some of the responses from the group wall? Even though this may be a joke, many of the angry/overjoyed/confused/etc kids who care enough to respond will be dead serious and possibly just as comical.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Speak: The group is closed, but her profile isn’t.
I thought it was customary to build your bridges BEFORE burning them? At least she’s smart enough to not post her real last name. She does exist though, just go to the Princeton homepage and type “Stephany” into the search.
Y11: Stand down, she doesn’t speak for us. Hmm this reminds me of that Ivy League Risk game from last year.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Y11, I’m not a P12, but there are more responses on her profile than on the group. Which would you prefer? The responses are generally very serious, but I don’t think they would be amusing unless we know for sure that she is kidding.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
[...] diatribe was posted on an blog covering everything Ivy League. You can read the rest of it here, but be warned, it uses some cuss words. I’m just warning [...]
August 14th, 2008 at 12:08 am
@Projected: Aha! This is all just a GoCrossCampus viral marketing scheme to fan inter-Ivy tensions for the upcoming risk “season.” Sneaky bastards.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:15 am
“You are Hitler the fourth” ???
August 14th, 2008 at 12:21 am
you should read her facebook notes. this girl is crazy.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:40 am
she is a real student i know
August 14th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I’m P’12, and Stephany has gotten herself quite the outrageous reputation on Facebook. People in the Princeton 2012 group and who commented elsewhere on her post seemed to respond favorably, though, and personally I agree. I don’t agree with every point she makes, but it’s a refreshing change from the ten trillion repeats of “What kind of sheets should I get?” and “Is my freshman seminar application essay long enough?” At Princeton and in the Ivy League in general, ‘12 may be as demographically diverse as you please, but the voices that make up the class on Facebook are by and large indiscernible. If Stephany stands out for being different, and lends some depth to the class, in my mind that’s a very very good thing.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:51 am
christianarchisti? is that you?
August 14th, 2008 at 2:56 am
@echo: Look, it’s fine to stand out, but please don’t mention your class in the same breath as Hitler!
In other news, she has deactivated her facebook.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Either this is a joke or this bitch is absoutely bat-shit crazy. I thought it was just run-of-the-mill delusional incoming freshman until you get to some of the later stuff:
“We are the anti-Christs to save the world from the mercy of God, the self-pity that festers within the masses. Religion is the opiate of the masses, so drug them until they are nothing but slaves at your will. You have deserved this. You are Hitler the fourth, Alexander the Great the Second, Napoleon the Fifth, here to destroy the world we know.”
Princeton may deserve some of its reputation for elitism, but there is no room for utterly insane, messianic visions of destroying the world as we know it and rebuilding in our own image (I believe that’s more Yale actually).
In any case, this girl is in for a very rude awakening when she arrives on campus and discovers that, as a freshman, she is on the bottom rung of the social ladder, and that she can’t just change the entire world as she wishes just by applying her super-powered mind to it. That is a natural part of everyone’s adjustment on arriving at an Ivy League school after having been at the top of everything through high school, but this one is either going to come to terms with it or end up in a padded cell.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am
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August 14th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I’m P’12 as well, and, unlike echo, I remember most of the responses being, “wow…,” “okay,” and along those lines. We’re prefrosh! We don’t need to take over the world, break the law, and exterminate the jews! We need to figure out what seminar we should take and whether we need a bike if we live in Forbes!
Honestly, I think she got a little over-excited (she can’t really be serious, can she?). I hope that she realizes that no one likes an elitist asshole, not even other elitist assholes.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I think she just used every cliche I’ve ever heard.
Also, ladies: If a broken condom is a victory, please, please stay on the pill.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
[...] Thank your lucky stars that this girl is not your roommate. [...]
August 14th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Why are these people sitting around planning out their freshman years on the computer and friending people? That’s so weird. Why don’t they just hang out and enjoy their summers?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:54 am
@classicist: “I would like to go back to China to work with its government and help it with command and market economy strategies and transition.” …I see what you mean by “usher in the Age of the Antichrist” lol. Since she says “go back”, I am quite surprised to see that her name appears on the Princeton search as “Stephany” and not something in pinyin.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:16 am
@projected27th: I’m a little surprised that you’ll deride Stephany for playing the Hitler card, and then suggest that, as an Asian-American, there is something strange about her having an English-language name. To make an assumption about Stephany’s culture and family, and her parents’ choice in naming her, on the basis of a few words in a local paper is just a little racist.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:59 am
@echomikeromeo
“I don’t agree with every point she makes, but . . . ”
She made a point?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hooray, she’s back up on facebook, this time as “Stephany Manifesto Xu” and without the P’12 network. Fire at will.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
[...] RoyalHighness” gave some life advice to her future classmates on a Facebook discussion board. IvyGate found it, and then Gawker picked it up, and now I pass it along to you. Why the passalong? Because it [...]
August 15th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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August 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
@echomikeromeo: I would say that linking your class to Hitler is an extremely baffling move. Whatever redeeming qualities he may have had will be forever overshadowed by his legacy. On the other hand, I’m Han Chinese too and know from experience that those who are born in China almost always have official names in pinyin and go by something else in class. I’d say this is a common phenomenon on college campuses. Last year I had at least 1 professor and 5 classmates separately express surprise that my real first name was an English name. One of the classmates refused to believe me, continuing to ask what my REAL name was, what name appears on my birth certificate, etc.
@Y11: Is she back for good? I can’t find her.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
[...] named Stephany Xu–also known by her Facebook alias as Stephany Her RoyalHighness–is lighting it up on the interwebs over at the Princeton 2012 Facebook group with what can only be called an expansive address upon [...]
August 15th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
@projected: I just checked, and you’re right- she’s definitely gone. Gawker ran a followup piece outing her full name yesterday, so maybe she has fled for good. We can only hope.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:50 am
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
this girl is so naive, she makes me want to cry. She is in for a world of hurt when she gets on campus- being a freshman is hard enough without an previous “crazy bitch” reputation.
my advice? lay low during frosh week, make your own friends, and don’t go spouting this shit around campus. Princeton’s too small for word of the crazy freshman to not get around.
P11
August 24th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Her RoyalHighness has a potential love interest:
http://undersideofparadise.blogspot.com/2008/08/crushfinder-crazy-edition.html
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Not only is she a bitch, she exposed her ignorance about D-Day. It wasn’t delayed from May 30, but it was supposed to go down on June 5. Storms forced the Allies to wait a day. Princeton huh?
October 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
i went to high school with this chick and she is dead serious.
people at our school were sick of her snobbishness and “im better than everyone” attitude
she acts all innocent and childlike, but shes a cruel heartless bitch
fuck you, you fake ass whore
October 13th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I went to high school with stephany xu. trust me when i say that this bitch is not kidding. aka “Bunny” stephany is just as much as a bitch as she sounds. the only reason she got into princeton, is because she cheated on a test that put her GPA .01 higher than the saluditorian. no joke. .01 higher. plus the fact that her father is on the admissions board. coincidence? just to add to it, she graduated high school at the age of 15. THIS BITCH IS ONLY 16 YEARS OLD, not only that, she put naked pictures of herself on facebook, AS HER PROFILE PICTURE……. trust me when i say that this is one dumb bitch
October 13th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
thats right, she was suspended because she had nude pictures of herself on her laptop from when she was 12 YEARS OLD
plus the only reason she got into princeton is because she has some connections with the admissions board
she was denied admittance from every other ivy league school she applied to… i went to high school with her and her salutatorian speech was full of as much bullshit as this is
she is the most fake person i know, so much so that she even created the “Bunny” nickname for herself
so for all of you at princeton, if you see her, give her my regards and have no mercy
October 13th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Not saying she’s not a strange girl but according to his CV, her dad hasn’t been at Princeton since 1996.
October 14th, 2008 at 12:55 am
haha.
i knew stephany.
she was interesting.
this is funny.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Someones parents did not hug her enough. It sounds like she is just looking for attention in a very negative way. She is young and stupid. Karma has a funny way of catching up with people who taunt it.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:46 am
I also went to high school with it.
Dumbest bitch I have ever met.
Delete this blog because it’s fueling her ego.
Fuck Princeton, Harvard RULES!
October 15th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
she smells like soy sauce
October 28th, 2008 at 12:33 am
all u jp II students are a bunch of freaks, texas should be ashamed to have u as a highs school
October 28th, 2008 at 3:47 am
echomikeromeo, Since when was sticking out for being “different” synonymous with being psycho?
She reeks of desperation and it seems that she’s psyched herself out after she realized she didn’t get into Princeton on her own merits. If she’s spending all her time writing manifestos like this then she is most likely going to be overwhelmed her first semester in college.
December 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
i know this girl, ive met her at princeton, and honestly she is really sweet, so dont bag on her
December 26th, 2008 at 4:16 am
i know this girl pretty well and she is one crazy bitch, and she’s proud of it. she is for real and she does not care what anyone says. i was one of those who was seriously embarrassed that someone from my class would write such a thing, but now that I think about it, she’s a good person to know and a fun person to be around… i just don’t wanna get too close.
in frosh week we all attended a short organized lecture in which the lecturer allowed questions, and she stood up and delivered the most random and craziest question ever, most thought she was drunk or high. the entire lecture hall burst into laughter as everyone tried to get a look at her, and the lecturer was so taken off-guard that he ended up ignoring the question and talking about what he wanted.
in the end, she’s seriously crazy, but she wrote it out of fun, and it’s ridiculous to hate on the entire princeton just because of this. there are people just as crazy and many much dumber and elitist than her currently living at different ivy league schools; it’s just that they are nowhere as fearless and uncaring about their reputations as she is. No matter what you (or I) say about her, you can’t help but admire her utter lack of fear, something that most of us can only admire and never hope to achieve.
January 7th, 2009 at 2:27 am
I agree with everything she says.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:29 am
first of the month fuckfaces
January 8th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Except for the last paragraph and the bit about breaking every law, I don’t object to the rest of what she says. More people should have this attitude sans the rub it in your face eliteness.
July 11th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
“I know it’s not weakness or failure you fear but your own brilliance, your own divinity. You ask yourself, who are you think to that you are beautiful? Extraordinary? You have every right, because that’s exactly what you are. Never fear your potential. Never fear your pinnacle.”
Lifted from perhaps the most well-known part of Marianne Williamson’s book, A Return to Love…surprised none of you nerds on here caught this. This girl’s a plagiarist.
September 5th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
My my. What a special and unique snowflake…
October 17th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
“we are the 0.0000001% of the world who have spent the last four years of our lives either blackmailing or working our asses off.”
Not too be too literal-minded about this, but 0.0000001% of 6 billion is 6 people.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Also, it’s been said before, but the “broken condom” is a biiig loss for 2/3rds of the parties involved.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
This girl gave me a blowjob in high school. Not kidding. She is batshit crazy. Trust me.