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. . . but I do live within driving distance of the real one, and I can assure you that, like most of central New Jersey, it does flood after a good rain. I'd hesitate to draw the line at heavy.

From context I'm guessing the Princetonian genius writing this article for the school paper is not at the top of hir class. I'm also guessing that virtual Princeton's campus represents the terrain at one of its soggier moments. Or perhaps it's just still under construction. Then again, maybe someone submitted as flawed terrain map for the initial terraforming of the sim.

Actually, I think my favorite malapropism in the piece is the bit about "perspective" students. I thought the author had just finished telling us that we were all real people, not avatars. So why be so concerned with perspective? Don't real people make their own perspective, sort of like something else I remember -- I think it was a brand of dog food -- that makes its own sauce?

Apparently the writer was also unaware that "this newspaper" also lives in an online edition, since the tenor of the piece evokes such an image of an aspiring student journalist whose mind is still stuck somewhere in journalistic time between H.L. Mencken and Randolph Hearst.

I'm so confused. I think I need to check out SL Princeton, instead of Burning Life, the next time I'm able to actually get into the "program."