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(05/07/12 5:14pm)
Please accept our sincere apologies for the state of Meyerson Hall this morning. We can imagine the unsettling effect that encountering this building in this condition may have on a young adult mentally preparing for an important examination. If it caused any of you distress, then we humbly accept culpability and wish we had presented a better side of the school. Friday was the final review for a good portion of our school, notably the graduating class. As such it was the culmination of not just this past semester but also 3+ years of our hard work. We celebrate that occasion. That certainly does not excuse us from leaving Meyerson Hall in such disarray. There was not widespread awareness hat this test would be given this morning; once again a sorry excuse for our treatment of the building. Please, on behalf of PennDesign’s student body, faculty, and staff, accept our sincerest apologies for exposing you to this environment; especially when you expected a calm and controlled atmosphere. It reflects on us now, but we will strive to perform better in the future, have better communication, and respect our spaces more than we have. Best of luck to you all on this exam, stay calm, read the whole question and all the answers. May walking into this mess be the worst thing that happens to you today. Do well and keep us in mind when shipping 2400s to prospective colleges.
(05/04/12 6:58pm)
You think you fancy because you landed a sweet internship this summer? That's cool, but it ain't being begged to drop out and start working for someone. Business Insider published an article today about College sophomore Dan Shipper, who, according to his personal website, has developed five tech startups since 2007. Given Dan's impressive resume, he's been recruited by several tech companies. 42Floors went balls out and published an open letter to Dan asking him to quit Penn and work for them.
(05/03/12 7:14pm)
Ready for history lesson? Maybe not, after spending the last week decaying in Van Pelt and swearing you'd never commit another fact to memory ever again. But this lesson is, cool. Promise. Because it's about FRATS. A lot of chapter houses didn't used to be where they are now, and you might be surprised to find out what houses and buildings former generations of Penn bros called their official man caves. Without further ado, let's begin a photographic tour of some awesome old Penn frat houses!
(05/03/12 2:13pm)
Seeking possible interpretations for this new monument erected at 37th and Walnut to honor the class of 1962 for funding the reconstruction of 37th Street into Benjamin Franklin's Way (you know, with the bricks and stones engraved with quotes and all). Will the real FNAR majors please stand up (and 'splain to us)?
(04/30/12 7:05pm)
Pour one (medium passionfruit bubble tea) out for our homies the Boba Bros— today is their last day of business. The Penn students had a good run, starting back in October 2010 by making their own homemade bubble tea and getting their product picked up and sold through TBowl. Bubble tea fans, it's not the end of the world. We'll always have Paris Beijing.
(04/26/12 11:21pm)
Some phriendly advice to all the ladies getting ready phor phormals: the proper way to steam a dress is to use a steamer, not to run a shower as hot as possible, accidentally set off the phire alarm, and have a phire truck pull up to your phront door.
That is all.
(04/20/12 5:14pm)
Penn: always at the forefront of innovative new academic programs. You might say they blaze the trail?
(04/18/12 7:23pm)
Coq [kok] noun - some sort of interactive theorem prover in the comp sci world and, more importantly, an obvious source of endless jokes that someone finally took advantage of...by advertising Coq lessons to the entire CIS listserv. Who was bold enough to offer them?
OOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! BOOM ROASTED! OWNED! PUNK'D! BURNED! ICED! DISSED!!!! WHATEVER THEY CALL IT THESE DAYS! Moral of the story: don't make your Gmail password "password."
(04/16/12 6:07pm)
(Note to selves: have our moms stitch our names and phone numbers into all of our Fling gear next year.)
(04/11/12 6:47pm)
Quad Guest Pass Sales End At 4P.M. Today — If you plan to bring friends into the Quad during Fling, register online here, print and sign the confirmation forms, and bring them to the second floor of Houston Hall along with $20 per pass.
(04/11/12 5:36pm)
Duh. If you want to see the FLOTUS and SLOTUS, GET MOVING!
(04/10/12 5:01pm)
Hoodie's A Chart Topper — No, really, Hoodie Allen's new EP, All American, is #1 on iTunes right now. Actually. For real. Check it out if you don't believe us.
(04/09/12 9:18pm)
Aaaaand Fling Tickets Are Sold Out — Time to start spamming your listservs, cruising Craigslist, and making all around desperate pleas to everybody you know if you're still in the market for passes to the concert.
(04/05/12 10:54pm)
Here is your impressive and inspiring story of the day: Nursing junior Yali Derman was named one of the Top 10 College Women in 2012 by Glamour magazine (for reference, there are a lot of women in college!).
(04/03/12 9:44pm)
Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi will host the 14th Annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival, put on by the men of Mask and Wig in conjunction with SPEC. ComFest is perhaps best known as the event that, two years ago, was hosted by Tom Green and followed by a party starring Tom Green. (Celebrities ALL up in these afterparties.)
(04/03/12 4:59pm)
Presenting the latest attempt at trying to brand The College as a "thing," the winner of the Dean's Advisory Board's 2012 College Apparel Contest. Though nothing will ever top this design, it sure beats a lot of the other submissions that have come through. You can order one here.
Behold, ALL OF THE MAJORS.
(04/02/12 7:37pm)
Anybody catch last night's episode of Mad Men? What about the minor nod to Penn? Look past Betty Draper's "Oh dear, it smells like somebody pooped in here!" face and you'll notice a Penn degree hanging on the wall of her doctor's office in this scene at the 10 minute mark. Only the best for Bets.
(04/02/12 5:11pm)
There's been a lot of hullaballoo over the ultra-coveted floor passes to the upcoming Tiësto and Passion Pit concert and a lot of people who didn't manage to snatch some up are pretty butthurt over it. But not all hope is lost: our friends over at SPEC want to make some more of you feel like the luckiest people alive by releasing a few additional floor passes (ZOMG!!!!!!!) and helping you exchange your GA tickets for different sections.
(03/31/12 1:00pm)
Seniors, Say Bye Bye — Because on Sunday, your bursaring privileges will *poof* disappear. Today is the final day to discreetly charge exorbitant purchases to your parents (hello, new MacBook from Computer Connection). It's, like, entering the real world or something.
(03/29/12 9:00pm)
Congrats to all the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed high school seniors who just received admission to the glorious University of Pennsylvania! You are the 12.3%. (But really, you're the 1%!—if you still find that reference funny.) This acceptance not only validates all your hard work, but it justifies the countless hours you've wasted reading a blog from a college you don't even attend...yet.
