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The woman I rented a room from in France told me she had two goals in life: to live in Paris, and to travel a lot. Her apartment in the 13th arrondissement was filled with trinkets she had picked up in the multiple continents she had visited over the years. While I was there, she took her three weeks’ vacation to travel to Namibia, returning with hundreds of photos and many stories to tell.
Forget STEM and Nursing — Penn’s biggest gender gap is on the second floor of Pottruck.
In Jonathan Chait’s recent article for New York Magazine, he criticizes what he calls “p.c. culture”: the new left’s tendency to take offense and its preference for censorship over open debate.
This year, while researchers in New York gathered data on genome structure that will change how we treat the deadliest diseases, while scientists in Geneva analyzed the nature of particles that form the building blocks of our universe, a lot of kids in California got measles.
As a recent article in The Daily Pennsylvanian pointed out, the attacks of early January on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo “triggered discourse around the world about free speech, comedy and their consequences.”
T his Thanksgiving , my sister was back from her first semester of college, already a little bit overwhelmed. She told me she probably wouldn’t be able to deal with all of her secondary (i.e. social) obligations until Dec. 20, as that’s the day of her last exam. I’m all too familiar with this mentality.
I t’s not easy being mainstre am, or so the purportedly oppressed majority would have us all believe.
Over the past few months, various authors and journalists have written a lot about Ivy League students and how the American public really ought to be concerned about them. William Deresiewics kicked this off in July with a piece in The New Republic that had a title inflammatory enough to give any conscientious bourgeois parent pause: “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League.”
“I ’m vegan” rolls off the tongue more easily than “I avoid eating meat, fish, eggs or dairy products whenever I can,” so I called myself vegan for simplicity’s sake when I first came to Penn. However, I soon became uncomfortable with the fact that the label “vegan” is considered as much an ideology as a dietary choice.
A few weeks ago, a Penn alumnus emailed me regarding an article in which I had argued that grading should be blind, because graders are affected by race and gender-based implicit bias when they evaluate a student’s work, and blind grading can mitigate this.
A pple and Facebook’s recent announcements that they will be offering egg freezing as part of their benefit packages for female workers has caused a lot of controversy.
“Y ou ’re more than just a number” is the motto for Goucher College’s new video application option, for which students submit a two-minute video talking about themselves in lieu of test scores or transcripts. All they need in addition is two works from high school, one of which must be graded.
M y fellow columnist, Katiera Sordjan, made a great point last week about how encouraging body positivity among women isn’t progress if it’s still focused on appealing to men . I’d like to take her point and go a little further.
H ow much do you think your race and gen der affect your grades?
O n e th ing you can count on being asked in an interview for almost anything is what leadership means to you. Sometimes it’s qualified as “good leadership” but sometimes not. Sometimes your interviewers cut right to the chase and ask you to explain how you are a leader, and could you please provide an example of a situation in which you were a leader, and how did it turn out and why. And I presume the reason this seemingly definitional question about leadership is ubiquitous is that there is a truly infinite array of acceptable answers.
W h e n I raise my head mid-text to check my surroundings on my walk to class, there’s one thing I always notice: Many of the people around me still have their heads down, absorbed in their own little screens.
I f you’re like me, you’ve heard your not-poor friends use the phrase “I’m poor ” a lot. I’m guilty of it too. I’ve explained to my friends that I have to take SEPTA rather than a cab because I’m “poor” or that I can’t go to a concert because it’s $45 and “I’m poor.” Somehow, the glib use of this phrase has slipped into the Penn vernacular, and it’s a bad habit that we all need to stop.