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(02/18/16 6:07pm)
Looking for a spot for your next BYO? Many would suggest Banana Leaf, a Penn staple. But how do you know if it's really any good? Few people have a clear, accurate memory of their time at Banana Leaf. Reading Yelp reviews gets you nowhere: apparently people go there for first dates, and are interested in the food. Fear not-- we've compiled a list of pros and cons tailored to the needs of the Penn student, which should help with your decision.
(02/03/16 8:26pm)
Hand fruit. We're pretty sure it's just like regular fruit, except you use your hands to eat it. It's a good thing the fruit is clearly labeled as such – we'd hate to see someone try to eat an apple with a fork. Talk about embarrassing! Then again, it's entirely possible that the fruit is made of hands, and can be eaten in any variety of ways. Maybe Penn Medicine had some leftover hands from their transplant program, and just dumped them in Engineering. Either way, a free meal is a free meal.
(01/27/16 7:44pm)
Penn students are always up to something, and the latest shenanigans are some of the most impressive yet. It appears that someone tried to bring dinosaurs back to life, á la Jurassic Park, but conflated the film's plot with the winter classic Frosty the Snowman, in which a hat is enough to animate a lifeless pile of frozen water. While we do love the new campus decor, it's pretty sad that this dinosaur has more school spirit than most of us.
(11/25/15 3:30pm)
We're back with another edition of Most Depressing Places On Campus – it's not that hard to keep this feature going, because we all know Penn has no shortage of bleak spots. This week we venture beneath the warm, cheery walls of McClelland Hall to the eerily silent netherworld below.
(11/18/15 5:55pm)
Shopping for furniture is great fun – everyone knows that. The only problem? Furniture stores, for the most part, don't sell food. This is without a doubt the greatest shortcoming of furniture stores. By logical extension, we'd like to point out that Asian supermarkets also generally have one fatal flaw: they don't sell furniture.
(11/10/15 6:44pm)
Go Quakers, indeed. An anonymous tipster has provided us with damning video evidence that Joe's Cafe has a minimum of one rodent. We aren't rodentologists, so we can't say for sure whether it's a rat or a mouse, but a mouse makes sense; we know Steiny D has mice. Joe's isn't the first campus eatery to have such problems, though. Let's not forget last February, when city reports were released detailing the presence of mouse droppings (and plenty of other issues) at various Penn dining halls. We just wish they were rats instead of mice–if Ratatouille was any indication of the culinary prowess of rats, maybe Commons wouldn't be so damn gross.
(11/08/15 7:00pm)
As history has shown, TAs make mistakes. They're only human, after all. This TA emailed a biology class about a rescheduled lecture, but there was one fatal flaw: lecture wasn't rescheduled. Luckily the vigilant Professor Plotkin corrected the erroneous email in just over ten minutes. His strategy: use as many exclamation points as possible. It's like yelling, but online. We're thankful everything turned out OK, but we're left with one big question: does he always sign things "///iPhone" if they're sent from his iPhone? What happened to the classic "sent from my iPhone" signature that we all know and love?
(10/30/15 5:30pm)
Halloween is upon us, and we all know what that means: aside from seances and zombie Gutmann, COSTUMES! Unfortunately, nobody's gonna remember what you wore in our imminent collective drunken stupor, but that's what Facebook and Instagram are for. We weighed some costume options below so you're not remembered as a total goof. You're welcome.
(10/21/15 3:56pm)
A single shiny croissant lay among the leaves of Locust Walk one brisk autumn afternoon, glowing gold like a forgotten treasure. It seems like strange imitations of food are a trend these days at Penn. Still, we have a lot of questions. Who left it there? Are we even sure it's plastic, and not just really stale? Either way, are you going to eat that? If you do, we won't judge – after all, even a plastic croissant has that alluring je ne sais quoi about it.
(10/14/15 2:42pm)
Thanks to an anonymous tipster, we were made aware that on Monday, Chrissy Teigen shared that she and husband John Legend are expecting their first child. Considering we pride ourselves on obsessively following Legend's post-Penn accolades, all of us were thrilled by this.
