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(12/07/09 10:01am)
At the end of the semester, when stress reaches a high point, we teaching assistants tend to hear a lot of griping from our students. While undergrads have their complaints, we have ours too. To give you a sense of what your TAs are bitching most about, I asked TAs around campus to send me messages they had for undergrads — and received a flood of rants. Below are some things your TAs told me they want you to know before exams and grading:
(11/16/09 8:08am)
It all started Nov. 7, one of the final days of Philadelphia’s annual First Person Arts Festival. Drawn by the speaker, hilarious author A.J. Jacobs, I turned out to see him discuss his latest adventure (outsourcing his life to Bangalore, India). Jacobs eventually summoned audience members to tell true stories. Before I knew it, a George Washington impersonator sat next to a young woman who fantasized about her faculty advisor, an older woman who recently wet the bed and a boy with a serious crush on Miss Piggy.
(11/02/09 8:39am)
Most of us celebrated Halloween Saturday, and probably Friday, too — and, from what I saw, it was rather epic. But while we were out committing fun and open debauchery — and looking pretty damn terrific — others in Philadelphia had ceremonially scared themselves into their basements. These people did not object to Halloween; they simply had already had their own Halloween, by handing out candy and trick-or-treating a week prior.
(10/12/09 5:41am)
Over the last week, an impassioned debate has sprung up between a few Penn students and the Philadelphia culture blog, Philebrity. The words have gotten pretty heated — Philebrity accused the students of betraying Philadelphia’s “intellectual and aesthetic heritage.” And their crime? Using Snuggies as the schtick for a pub crawl.
(09/28/09 8:18am)
My friend Brett joined me for coffee last week at The Last Drop on 13th and Pine. I’m a regular, and have seen the same two baristas there for ages. So I became embarrassed when Brett marched up to the counter and gave the sullen, sunken-eyed kid a jolting, conspicuously cheery “Hello!”
(09/15/09 4:22am)
In the beginning of the year, especially if you are just starting out at Penn, there is one thing you should really do: Take a walk.
