Can't use up all your meals? You're not alone. Penn's meal plan system has long been a source of dissatisfaction among students, whose complaints range from the high price of plans to dining halls' limited hours of operation. And as the semester comes to a close, students are often left with dozens of unused meals.

College students socialize 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and one Penn student wants to create a Web site to make interacting with peers even easier. DormNoise.com - which will launch this June - is a college exclusive social-networking Web site created by Wharton freshman Jay Rodrigues.

As Delta Sigma Theta's "Devastating Divas" stomped into the spotlight of Irvine Auditorium's stage Saturday night, they were greeted by the screams and cheers of a sold-out audience. The Devastating Divas were a part of "Stomping On the Yard," a national step show and scholarship competition that involves over a million students belonging to nine fraternal organizations called "The Divine Nine.

The Undergraduate Assembly elected College sophomore Claire Choi as its new secretary for the 2008-2009 executive board last night. Choi won in a vote of nine to eight against College sophomore Benny Laitman. "I hope we can reach out and make more in-person efforts for publicity," said Choi, who added that she was looking forward to forming both a communications and a social committee as well as issuing UA press releases.

The American health-care system is under-equipped to serve the rapidly aging generation of baby boomers, according to a recent report from the Institute of Medicine, and medical schools must step up. While some schools, like Penn, have developed programs to improve training in geriatric medicine, it's still a challenge to get students to specialize in the field.

Five years ago, Mylan Marvelous opened his store to address what he saw as a glaring lack of places to buy music and comics in West Philadelphia. Now, music has become the sole priority for The Marvelous, his store located below Smokey Joe's near 40th and Walnut streets.

The last four times the women's lacrosse team faced Northwestern, the scores were 13-6, 17-8, 13-4 and 12-2 all in favor of the Wildcats. But yesterday the No. 5 Quakers reversed three years of futility against Northwestern, earning a huge upset 11-7 over the Wildcats at Franklin Field.

In getting two wins over Columbia this weekend, freshman Jessie Lupardus did not just shatter the program mark for victories and strikeouts in a single season: She also won more games (19) than any Penn softball team did from 1974-2006. It was all part of a record-setting weekend for the Quakers.

The last thing the Quakers wanted to do was count themselves out. Then, just like that, they were forced to. After dropping the first of its four-game set with Columbia, 5-4 on Saturday, Penn's faint hopes of forcing a playoff with the Gehrig Division-leading Lions were dashed, to be replaced with the inevitability of a season that was more of a learning experience than a winning one. The Quakers had needed a sweep (and then some) to prolong their season.

With gas prices sitting at $3.51 a gallon nationwide, many people are finding it harder to get around. These same prices are making it more expensive for institutions like Penn to fund construction projects. Recent economic troubles - especially rising fuel prices - are driving up construction costs, forcing universities and developers to plan ahead and take steps aimed at saving money.

Penn senior Tim Kaijala remembers track coach Charlie Powell sending him out on the last day of the Penn Relays four years ago. Kaijala was to be the anchor of the Quakers' 4x800-meter team. "It was the most nervous I've been in my whole life," he recalled after this year's Relays.

Who do Senator John McCain's advisors want him to face in November's presidential election? According to Elisabeth Bumiller, a political affairs reporter for The New York Times, the answer is Illinois Senator Barack Obama. "They feel they have a better case against Obama," said Bumiller, who has covered McCain's campaign ever since he won the New Hampshire primary in January.

Tomorrow, Penn's juniors will pick up their canes and march their way into senior year. But since the last day of classes falls on a Tuesday rather than a Friday, many juniors this year won't be able to participate in Hey Day festivities because of class presentations or exams.

With the desire to learn foreign languages steadily increasing, graduate students have found a way to hone their conversation skills outside of the classroom. "Language chats" - organized by and often conducted at the Graduate Student Center - bring together students to discuss anything from politics to spring break plans in a foreign language.

So this is my last column for The Daily Pennsylvanian - unless my editor talks me into writing one for finals week, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Since this will be my last glorious chance to bestow my sagacity and insight upon you, my public, I have scribbled down some advice that some of you will hopefully take to heart during your time here at dear old Pennsylvania.

If the men's lacrosse team had any prayer of earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, Towson shot down those dreams. Eighteen times, to be exact. The Quakers struck first on Saturday, taking a 3-1 lead in the first quarter, but their opponents sealed the victory by halftime with a 10-1 run.