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Many freshman, specifically women, are excited and terrified at the idea of attending and becoming a DePaul student and graduate.

The doors open to new opportunities, career prospects, excellent educators and for some, potential future mates.

While women are dreaming about what’s to come, men are focused on the immediate pursuits of sex and pleasure.

According to Susan Patton’s “Advice for the Young Women of Princeton” published in The Daily Princetonian, female students should not have the same priorities as their male peers. Instead, they must focus on acquiring a husband while men focus on their social lives.

“Here’s what nobody is telling you: find a husband on campus before you graduate,” said Patton.

Patton is a well-educated, well-versed and a highly accredited alumna of Princeton who, in an attempt to enlighten the daughters she never had at her alma mater, decided to address a letter to the editor on what the real goal of a four-year education at Princeton should truly mean.

“I wish I had ended up with a Princeton man,” said Patton.

Not all women agree with Patton’s stance.

“Finding a man is kind of a natural process, she makes it seem like it’s all planned out, like you have to work on it, chase one down,” said Sarah Lamarti, a Belgian student.

Chasing a man is the path to happiness considering we have a “shelf life,” according to Patton, who ogles and idealizes the elusive and intellectually capable men of Princeton that got away.

In 1977, Patton graduated Princeton, spent her 20s working and at 30, married outside of Princeton. Now, past those exquisite years, she is divorced with two sons, visiting Princeton and publicly airing the grievances of her life instead of confining it to the walls of Facebook and Twitter as we all tend to do.

So let us take a moment to mourn the harsh reality of this “Princeton duchess.” The woman never lived up to that Princeton dream – a meal she was probably fed but cannot seem to forget.

The idea of a perfect marriage, an unrivaled career and some spoon-fed elitism is an idealized version of what a Princetonian is, instead of who an individual is – flaws and all.