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(08/31/17 5:53pm)
The writings and material cultures of past civilizations have long offered clues into how early humans used to live, but figuring out how groups of people actually behaved in ancient times is no easy task. However, a team of researchers led by Penn archaeology professor Angela Daniels has discovered a startling phenomenon: the customs of our ancient ancestors may live on today in unexpected ways.
(07/24/17 9:23pm)
Sandra Davis (C '19) started off the summer strong. In May, she'd assembled a list of seven "realistic, totally actionable goals" that would allow her to rejuvenate her mind and body and get ahead for the next school year. The list was as follows:
(07/10/17 9:36pm)
"We STEM boyz," a group chat of Penn rising seniors, has achieved the hard, but far from impossible. All of its members had the fortune of landing prestigious internships in their careers of choice for this summer. We were honored to be granted interview time with three of their most successful members, but surprised to find that all three admitted to feelings of intense jealousy over their friends' internship experiences.
(05/25/17 4:40pm)
Desperate to be rid of his demonic organic chemistry textbook, Derek Montgomery (C'19) turned to the Free & For Sale Facebook group, hoping to sell the textbook to an unsuspecting student who probably got a B+ in CHEM 102 (this is embarrassing). Unfortunately for Montgomery, a sudden influx of sellers and the continual pirating of textbook pdfs hindered his efforts, much as alkyl groups attached to a tertiary carbon hinder a nucleophile's attack on said carbon in an SN2 mechanism.
(04/26/17 3:55pm)
On Monday and Tuesday, broken traffic lights at the intersection of 34th and Walnut forced police officers to stand in the middle of the road and direct traffic themselves. The officers handled the job expertly, making a potentially dangerous situation only a minor inconvenience. Still, some students were quite displeased with the issue.
(03/31/17 5:36pm)
In a recent announcement, Penn's Board of Trustees revealed President Amy Gutmann's celery for 2017. The value of Gutmann's celery will be $3.5 million, a 5 percent increase from last year.
(03/28/17 7:56am)
A student riding a Razor scooter collided with two pedestrians on Locust Walk on Monday at approximately 1:50 p.m. Eyewitnesses report watching the scooter hit a loose brick and ejecting its rider into the two students, one of whom was speed walking to class while staring at his phone and one of whom was avoiding a particularly aggressive Locust flyer distributor.
(03/22/17 5:41pm)
Last week, Penn Labs updated Penn Course Review to support a new feature, Course Cart. The feature allows you to track multiple classes at time and find the average rating of your entire courseload, so you can see if your next semester is going to be utter hell or only mostly hell. In addition, the good people at Penn Labs have developed a less well-advertised but even more important feature: a new course metric, Classmate Quality.
(03/15/17 4:57pm)
Of the fourteen a cappella groups in the A Cappella Council (curiously abbreviated "ACK"), the average undergraduate might watch five at most during their time at Penn. But for some students, the amazingly diverse and slightly excessive number of a cappella groups in ACK was the sole reason they even applied.
(03/01/17 2:00am)
When Fall 2017 courses went live on Penn InTouch on Friday, Julia Glanzer (C '20) celebrated. Now that classes are out, she can revel in the semiannual opportunity to create a hundred mock schedules and mask her fear of never figuring out her path in life.
(02/24/17 9:22pm)
Last year, Samuel Chen (W'18) was one of the lucky rising juniors to score a summer analyst internship at Goldman Sachs. Despite having a completely unfulfilling experience at his internship, he plans to return to Goldman this summer and, indeed, to work at the firm after graduation.
(02/18/17 6:27pm)
Serving as vice president of the United States is tough. But selecting a viable PennKey is far harder. Shortly after facing rejection from eight Wharton clubs, former Vice President Joe Biden recently ran into another roadblock in his transition to Penn: the PennKey "biden" was already taken.
(02/06/17 9:33pm)
In this recent profile of President Amy Gutmann, we discovered a puzzling fact. Our esteemed president has never shared with the Penn community her single most important talent: standing on her head.
