How do people in Princeton actually meet all these famous scientists and researchers?
I just live in Princeton (not a Princeton student or anything), and sometimes it genuinely blows my mind that people like Einstein, John von Neumann, Gödel, Oppenheimer, and so many other legendary scientists actually lived and worked here. They literally walked the same streets, gave lectures here, had conversations here, etc.
I know Princeton is still full of extremely smart and accomplished people today too. professors, researchers, scientists, maybe future Nobel Prize winners.
For people who live here or went to Princeton: how do regular people actually meet or interact with these kinds of people? Do you just attend lectures/events, or is it more closed-off than it seems?