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Lilian Zhang | STEM is sweeping through Penn, but the humanities deserve a chance too

(12/06/18 2:21am)

Penn is a fan of nickel-and-diming its students, keen to charge us $0.07 for each page we print. Students have long mocked and criticized such behavior, but hypocritically, we have begun to pick up this practice ourselves. Only this is done in a different context — we flock to fields of study that generate the highest income.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/12/stem-humanities-upenn-wharton-college-lilian-zhang

Lilian Zhang | China’s education system is notoriously rigid, but is the U.S. any better?

(11/09/18 11:51pm)

You are nine years old. Your mom comes into your room at 6:30 a.m. to wake you up. You climb out of bed, brush your teeth, have breakfast, then run to the bus stop. The driver yells at you to hurry up. You sit silently as the bus loops around the blocks, bringing you to school right before the first bell. 

https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/11/china-higher-education-ivy-league-upenn-holistic-admissions-lilian-zhang

Lilian Zhang | From Beijing to Philadelphia, gentrification follows me across the globe

(10/08/18 3:34am)

As a kid, I had always wondered why a bright red “拆” had been painted on the dilapidated apartment complex right next to my dad’s office building. I knew what the character meant — to tear or break down — but there the building stood, month after month. Each time my dad brought me to work, I would stare at the ugly character as we drove by, contemplating how difficult it was for the government to simply tear down a building and why it was allowed to remain for so long.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/10/upenn-gentrification-philadelphia-beijing-lilian-zhang

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