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Alexa Rybicki | Penn students should make use of Pottruck

(08/15/19 2:54pm)

Homework, hanging out with friends, studying for midterms, grabbing dinner … sounds like your week, right? But where does going on a run or making a trip to the gym fit in? It is so important to stay active and exercise as often as you can in college. Although it might have been easy to get exercise through involvement in a sport or active club in high school, it can be a lot more challenging in college, when sports become super competitive and class work piles up. Penn makes going to the gym and exercising accessible, and maybe even fun, for its students. 



Alexa Rybicki | Take advantage of Penn’s global seminars

(06/27/19 2:26am)

As I started my first year at Penn, the thought of studying abroad had never seemed like a reality to me. Although I was interested in service and seeing other parts of the world, I didn’t want to leave school for an entire semester and stay in a foreign country for that long of a time. I thought it would be difficult to miss out on a semester of Penn’s challenging engineering classes and then have to catch up when I returned. I had no idea about Penn’s global courses and short-term trips that were offered until the end of first semester, when the student leader for one of the programs — Global Biomedical Services — spoke to my bioengineering class in an effort to raise our interest.