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Join us for the latest instructive installment of our visual Penn survival guide, a collaboration between UTB and David Comberg's Information Design class (FNAR 337). Click on the thumbnail to see the full image.
After we watched this video, we were left with only one question: why did it take this long for someone to create a High School Musical parody set at Wharton?
In this installment of our visual Penn survival guide, a collaboration between UTB and David Comberg's Information Design class (FNAR 337), we prep you for the upcoming weekend with a handy guide for steering clear of your Pennemies. Click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and View previous images here.
Before he left Penn a few semesters ago, Psych 001 lecturer Andrew Shatte was Penn's reigning Mr. Popularity, beloved for his Australian accent and stable of rehearsed jokes. Well, watch out, Shatte fans, because your man is coming back...but hopefully you already know that, 'cause his lecture is invitation only. For those who were snubbed, below is the ridiculous e-mail he just sent out announcing his one-night-only homecoming engagement . (And do note the self-aggrandizing subject line; our Shatte was known for many things, but modesty wasn't one of them.)
Public service announcement: don't forget about our contest, your only chance to score a wristband for the Spring Fling concert. The deadline for submissions is Friday at 5 p.m.
Welcome to another installment of our visual Penn survival guide, a collaboration between UTB and David Comberg's Information Design class (FNAR 337). Click on the thumbnail to see the full image. View previous images here.
Oh happy day, it's finally Thursday! That means Grey's Anatomy is on tonight (and screw you, it's still a good show), but as for something with more universal appeal, ohmygodyayyyyy there's a new issue of Street! Read all about Penn's seedy underbelly of bathtub gin and Great Gatsby parties in this week's feature. And not to get totally anachronistic on you, but you know what else we wish we could go back in time to? The year 1995, so we could blast some No Doubt, blissfully unaware of the B-A-N-A-N-A-S future that would unfold for Gwen Stefani. Sigh. We would also like to reread all of Louis Sachar's oeuvre and adapt it into a screenplay involving sideways arithmetic, which, according to the Film section, is a brilliant idea. We'd wash it down with a Koch's sandwich, and hey, there actually isn't much of a market for brewing moonshine in this day and age -- is Koch's hiring? No? What sort of an objective statement might a superhero put on his or her resume? Thanks to Guides, we feel totally equipped to save humanity. Orrrr we could get hopped up on moonshine and watch Power Rangers clips on YouTube, which Lowbrow seems to endorse.
In this installment of our visual Penn survival guide, a collaboration between UTB and David Comberg's Information Design class (FNAR 337), we sheltered liberal arts majors learn that DRL is hardly the only labyrinth on campus. Click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and view previous images here.
American Idol fans at Penn tend to keep their fervor on the downlow, but it's a safe bet that there are more than a few of you who secretly tune in every Tuesday and Wednesday. One such fan made his love public this week when Entertainment Weekly featured him in their Idolotry video series. His name is Zach Sergi, and you may recognize him from his Friars membership or perhaps his turn as a Street cover boy. In this video, which sadly we cannot embed, Zach riffs on Adam Lambert, he of the bell bottoms and pompadour. And he represented Penn admirably, vocabulary-wise: he opined that Adam's most recent performance "skewed towards detracting" from his fandom. Zach, you'll always make our top 10.
Welcome to a special midnight installment of our visual Penn survival guide, a collaboration between UTB and David Comberg's Information Design class (FNAR 337). Click on the thumbnail to see the full image. View previous images here.
This is the first installment of our visual Penn survival guide, a collaboration between UTB and David Comberg's Information Design class (FNAR 337). Each graphic in the series depicts a different element of survival of the Penn-est. Click on the thumbnail to see the full image.
Um, we take this back, because apparently the Class of 2010 isn't capable of selecting a T-shirt design without a voting scandal. Oooh, 10-sion! Class prez Arthur Gardner Smith just e-mailed the class announcing that there was "a problem with how the votes were cast" and that a recount is imminent. Sounds pretty suspicious -- if you know any more details, tip us.
This one, by Brynn Shepherd:
While you were holed up in Van Pelt with midterm fever, the students in David Comberg's Information Design class (FNAR 337) have spent the past few weeks toiling away on their most recent projects. The assignment? Create an information graphic depicting any aspect of Penn life, from the most mundane activity to the hilarious and/or humiliating. Starting tomorrow, UTB will be posting the final projects as part of a collaboration with FNAR 337. Throughout this week, be sure to watch out for posts accompanied by the "How To Survive At Penn" logo (below, created by class T.A. Nirav Sanghani). We hope you'll find the projects informative...or at the very least, pretty to look at.
We told you it was coming a little while ago, but now it's official: Penn's senior societies have initiated their '10s. As reported in last week's Round Up, Friars and Mortar Board took the plunge last week, while Sphinx brought up the rear last night. (And if you're wondering about the ball alluded to in the title of this post, just to be clear, there is no actual party; instead think of the whole campus throughout April as a metaphorical deb ball for the new society members, with their own egos serving as their escorts.)
Hear ye, hear ye, our benevolent Social Planning and Events Committee (or more specifically, SPEC Concerts Co-Director Preston Hershorn) has generously provided UTB with three Fling concert wristbands to give away. Wristbands, which are totally sold out otherwise, will give you floor access at the Akon/Guster concert on the 17th. So how can you win? Submit your favorite Fling-ism with an Urban Dictionary-style definition. For example: Flungover (adj) - the state of being hungover during Fling weekend as a result of excessive intoxication and fried Oreo consumption Submit your entries to underthebutton@gmail.com with the subject line "Wristband Contest." In addition to being published right here on UTB, the winner will receive two wristbands, and the runner-up will score one. You have until Friday at 5 p.m. to submit your entries.
Now that it's April, Hey Day draws nigh. Juniors, you know what that means: time to vote on your t-shirt design. The current options are posted on the Class of 2010's website. History shows that the coolest design will probably not win; why, for example, was last year's t-shirt Monopoly-themed? Still, you should go ahead and vote anyway. Voting goes until 11:59 tonight. Make it work, junior class.
Here's another Best of Penn remember-when. Happy five-year anniversary, B.O.P. 2004. You've only gotten better with age.
It's understandable that our dear president can't sit around waiting for packages to arrive (hello, shit needs to get done), but where was her doorman/butler/manservant when UPS stopped by today? A UTB spy reports: "i was walking to class today and saw the familiar UPS sticker on the gate outside amy's house. interestingly, the package was addressed to 3600 gray's ferry.. not 38whatever walnut." Innnnnteresting.
Join us on our stroll down Best of Penn memory lane. The early 2000's were a simpler time, it seems: people that had them newfangled cell phones were considered "yuppie schmucks," Penn students actually had sex and therefore needed to buy condoms at a long-forgotten Rite Aid, and Chili's was bumpin' on Monday nights. That last one's due for a revival, no?