You don’t have to be a reporter to make the realizations I have during my time at Penn. Pursue your passions, whatever they are.

Following a vote last month to add a sorority to campus, the Panhellenic Council extension committee voted May 3 to add the new sorority in 2011 rather than 2012. The sorority will be Penn’s eighth after Phi Sigma Sigma closes at the end of this academic year.

If there’s any lesson that I could hope to impart, it’s this: Don’t shy away from the things that you love, no matter how difficult or different they seem.

Thirty years ago, before the term post-traumatic stress disorder was used in mental health discourse, Edna Foa wondered how individuals processed disturbing and distressing events. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs now treats PTSD patients, thanks to Foa’s treatment program.

When I applied to Penn, I wrote my retirement speech for my autobiography’s page 217. Today, I rewrote that speech.

Though for members of the senior class, Monday’s Commencement will mark the official end of their time at Penn, “there’s no excuse to stop involvement,” according to 2006 graduate Andrew Rosenthal, president of the Penn Alumni Club of Philadelphia.

Ever since he left Penn, 2005 College graduate Noah Pink has been following his dreams and working as a filmmaker. In his newest film, Pink tracks the adventures of his characters in a pursuit to follow their own dreams and become American rap artists.

I could not have expected that the past four years would unfold as they did. And the narrative of my Penn experience has been full of surprises.

I can confidently say I’m sick of the “then” and the “now” — I’m ready for the “next.”

The venture is a one-man operation by College senior Langston Smith, who handled everything the small business needed — from product design to marketing to website development.

Instead of writing final papers or taking exams, students enrolled in “Architecture 302: Investigating Product Design” were able to make their own semester-culminating projects.

With just days to go before next Tuesday’s primary, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) are tied for the Democratic Senate nomination.

Part of a year-to-date 25 percent increase in overall crime, forcible sex offenses saw a dramatic increase, with seven incidents reported in April.

Penn President Amy Gutmann announced that the University has received a gift of $5 million from Emeritus Trustee Stephen Heyman, a Wharton 1959 alumnus. The donation will be used to endow a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professorship named after Heyman’s father.

Although high school seniors applied to more schools this year, Penn’s yield — the percentage of students who choose to matriculate — has stayed consistent at about 63 percent.

With exams over, the crews have the luxury of more sleep, which can only help the Quakers as they head into Sunday’s Eastern Sprints Championships.

After clinching their first ever Ivy league title, the Quakers made history with their first appearance in postseason play since becoming a varsity program in 2000.