Brian Goldman | Gradually warming to graduation
Graduation is hard to embrace, but it helps to be nudged into the real-world.
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Graduation is hard to embrace, but it helps to be nudged into the real-world.
Last Wednesday through Saturday, I convened in Washington with students from across the nation as part of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center Millennial Values Survey Release.
My fifth encounter with Spring Fling (including my Penn Preview weekend) went much like the first four. In short, it couldn’t have gone any better. My last Fling as a student brought friends, fun but also finale, ending on a bittersweet note.
This past weekend, like many Jewish students, I went home to celebrate Passover. With Easter falling on the same weekend, hopefully many other students had the same opportunity to spend time with family.
To be perfectly honest, when Geoffrey Canada was named the 2012 graduation speaker last month, I was pretty disappointed.
Everyone knows that if you want to get into Smokey Joe’s on a Friday night, you’ll need to show an ID.
“Attack the basket, guys!” I shouted across the court to a group of 11- and 12-year-old boys. “And when the ball gets in the corner on defense, trap the player.”
Many seniors, including myself, are under the illusion that they are writing a thesis. But in fact, we’re persevering through them. They consume many nights of our lives. It’s just like Feb Club except minus the beer and add in mounds of research and stress.
I don’t remember the first time I opened a newspaper, but I can recall the feeling of its ubiquity, its daily presence throughout my childhood.
There are a host of reasons why you might be fed up with the current state of politics. I won’t waste your time by exploring all of them, but there’s one going on right here in our backyard that’s worth mentioning …
Director Martin Scorsese could not have scripted this.
On Saturday night, my roommate and I took a drive around campus, looking to purchase some supplies for the night ahead. But besides the staples (cheap beer, cups and ice), we decided to step outside our comfort zone and add one more to the list: a bottle of wine.
Penn has had its fair share of widely renowned graduates, from Donald Trump to William Henry Harrison to Stephen Glass.
The Daily Pennsylvanian’s arts and culture magazine, 34th Street, is good for a few things: Shoutouts, cultural elite and what Theos brothers did last weekend.
Call it Occupied Philadelphia. The present tense of “Occupy” may be misleading.
When we receive our first paychecks, we’ll gloss over the taxes that strip away from the total. But, as students and the future workforce of the country, we should be paying attention to one of these taxes: the payroll tax.
We are (not) Penn State.
Rush Limbaugh is a staple member of the incendiary political punditry that believes that the more outrageous the claim (regardless of facts), the more attention garnered and the higher the ratings.
Today, I’ve decided to come out of the closet.
There exists a bubble that provides some distance between the city of Philadelphia and Penn.