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(10/27/19 10:12pm)
We are quick to fight over blame when alcohol is linked to sexual violence. The first step was admitting to the problem, but we did that. On a national scale, it took an epic power shakedown for leaders to acknowledge the ubiquity of sexual assault across institutions. At Penn, student groups, individual voices, and Penn President Amy Gutmann have repeatedly brought attention to sexual assault on campus.
(09/15/19 10:28pm)
At a “Day of Play” event designed to foster wellness in the Penn community, surrounded by celebration and positive messaging from the balloons, photo ops, and free food, I felt like joy was being shoved down my throat. In the moment, I tried to force cheeriness, but real wellness is a sustained set of choices motivated by a long-term goal. It isn’t faking a smile at a party.
(09/03/19 1:22am)
Picture Penn’s campus mid-July – it’s a humid Philly summer, but you and most other students are far, far away, probably either at the beach or at an investment bank. Still, somehow I found myself right back in University City, working as an RA and TA at one of the many high school business programs on campus. Unfortunately, it became clear that many participants and their families overvalue these pre-college programs, expecting a magic shortcut to college admissions.
(04/10/19 1:10am)
Navigating Student Financial Services can be headache-inducing for anyone. After giving yourself a pep-talk, you walk into an office, input your name into a kiosk, and watch it linger endlessly on a waiting list while you squirm in a chair. The experience is often not only tedious, but frustrating and demoralizing.
(01/30/19 2:04am)
If you haven’t heard about Birthright, it sounds like fantasy: an organization that offers a free 10 day trip around Israel to thousands of young Jewish adults each year. My first thought when I heard about this program through Penn Hillel? There is definitely a catch. My second thought? I am definitely not Jewish enough for this.
(12/06/18 10:14pm)
A string of half-finished, half-baked conversations has followed me at Penn. You know the type — a quick catch-up on Locust, a rushed lunch date at Commons, small talk thrown around in dorm hallways. We are all too familiar with the language of busy people with important things to do.
(11/07/18 6:41am)
The day after President Trump took the Oath of Office in front of a crowd of either 200 or 2 million people — the truth got lost somewhere along the way — I boarded a crowded bus to Washington to march amid the surge of pink hats. Trekking through the capital, I pretended to know exactly what I was marching for, to assemble a list of policy goals or at least some elegant notion of feminism as a rallying cry. But since I never actually had to draft a concrete ideology, it was enough just to ride the wave of fear and anger that engulfed our country.
(11/07/18 3:14am)
Higher education is a philanthropic cause that pries open the wallets of billionaires. But, that money should go to the institutions that can best serve students, not to those with the most attractive brand names.
(10/25/18 6:30pm)
The social circles of American teen movies are well documented — cliques, petty gossip and all. While the intense social hierarchies of “Mean Girls” don’t resemble a typical high school, most Penn students — regardless of background — assumed a degree of order in their social lives before college. Essentially, we arrive at Penn secure in our little corner of the universe; we know who our friends are and where to sit at the lunch table.
(10/14/18 11:28pm)
United States politics is a bloated creature — every Twitter fight adds a burst of hot air. The division between Democrats and Republicans fits political discourse into a narrow, obsessive outlook that is all talk and no decision-making.
