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How To Join
There are two ways to join 2D:
1.  The coop is not currently full, so to join all you need to do is e-mail twod@princeton.edu and start coming to dinner.  The responsibilities of a member include paying dues, cleaning on two Saturday mornings per semester, and doing a chore (usually fewer than two hours per week involved).
2.  Draw a room in the house.  You then automatically become a member and have the responsibilities outlined above. There is a special 2 Dickinson room draw as part of the independant student room draw.
Contact Person
Rachel Sealfon, email: sealfon AT princeton DOT edu. You can also email twod@princeton.edu or just stop by -- dinner is at 6.30 every day and all are welcome.
Costs
$500 per semester
(Often times, this figure is not entirely correct.  The coop has often spent less than the money available and members have received rebates, but the opposite is also true - if the co-op overspends, members may be asked to contribute more.  In recent semesters members have received rebates ranging from $20 to $60.)
Statement
    At 2 Dickinson St., on the corner of Dickinson and University Place, is a beautiful yellow house owned by the University and fondly referred to as 2D by those who know it well.  There eat forty Princeton students with a common goal of community and cooperation.  Organic vegetables fill the industrial-sized refrigerator.  Flour gets delivered at 5 am, 300 pounds at a time.  Milk comes in glass bottles and soy and rice milk are abundant.  There are almost always people in the kitchen, cooking dinner, baking late night cookies or fresh bread, having a "study hall", or just hanging out.  The dining room holds an old piano, a bookcase, students' art, 3 tables and 24 chairs.  At dinner time it is cozily crowded and comes alive with talking and cheering.

    Simply stated, 2D is  Princeton's vegetarian co-op.  In many ways it is like a HUGE family.  There are no chefs, officers, or administrators maintaining 2D.  Every member contributes to keep the co-op working smoothly and happily.  Decisions are made and conflicts are resolved at big house meetings where issues are discussed until consensus is reached.  Dinners each night and Sunday brunch are cooked by groups of 4 or 5 members, so each member cooks once a week.  Cleaning is done on an individual basis - like washing your own dishes after a meal, and in groups - cleaning communal pots and pans after dinner and working to make the kitchen spotless in cleaning groups that each member does twice a semester.  Each member also has a chore.  Recently we eliminated cleaning as a chore and started to have cleaning groups instead, so now chores are even more fun.  They include bread making, hummus making, composting, webmaster, bulk food ordering, and plant tending.

     The food here is always vegetarian and vegan options are available too.  Everything is homemade and the options never become repetitive.  Though groups only cook dinners and Sunday brunch, there is plenty of food available for breakfast and lunch.  The co-op buys cereal in bulk, and for lunch there are often some great leftovers.  Cooking is an important part of 2D but you need not have experience to join.  2D is a great place to learn how to cook because everyone is glad to offer advice and the community is accepting of mistakes.  It can be daunting at first to cook for forty, even for the most experienced cook, but everyone seems to grow to relax and enjoy it.  It can be a way to get away from school work for awhile and explore your creativity; a chance to talk with some friends and nurture others.

    Of the 40 members, 20 live in the house.  Thus there are two ways to join - you can try to draw a room in the house by signing up for 2D draw on the room draw form (anyone living here is automatically a member), or you can get in off the randomly sorted wait list.  If 2D sounds like the kind of place that would make you feel at home, come sign up on the interest list hanging in the kitchen.  Also, most people in 2D really like to talk about it, so I highly recommend that if you're even remotely interested you talk to some of us.  There won't be any official "sophomore dinners" here but dinner is at 6:30 every night (Sunday brunch is 10:30-12) and everyone is welcome!  If you plan to come in a group bigger than three or so, please call the kitchen (x8188) around 4:30 so we can be sure to make enough food.  Or, if you like, you can even show up around 4:30, introduce yourself, and offer to help cook.  We look forward to meeting you...