At the end of this past school year, my mom and I were talking about the ups and downs of my college experience when she asked, “Are you proud of the person you’ve become?” Although taken by surprise, my first instinct was to say yes. After all, I had finished two years of college, lived across the country from my family, survived several East Coast winters, taken stimulating courses with incredible professors and learned from and was challenged by the students around me.

For most Penn students, New Student Orientation is the beginning of a yearlong journey into finding their place on campus.

With hundreds and hundreds of courses across dozens of departments, choosing classes can be a challenge, and switching them once the year has started can be even harder.

Hillary Clinton appealed to millennial voters on Aug. 16 in a speech largely focused on democratic participation. 

In the wake of Wharton and College undergraduate Arthur Halim’s death, his father Amin Halim remembered his son as a kind-hearted, caring and dedicated individual.

Barring any successful legal challenges, McMullin can only earn a spot on the ballot in 15 states. 

Evan McMullin, who received an MBA from Wharton in 2011, touted himself as an independent, conservative alternative to Donald Trump.

Arthur Halim, who entered Penn with the Class of 2016, died in Portland, Oregon on July 30, surrounded by his loved ones.

The unveiling also served as an update for the Bartram’s Mile trail, a project spearheaded by the Schuylkill River Development Corporation to connect the Southwest Philadelphia green space to the ever-expanding Schuylkill River Trail.

Eight years ago, Russell Craig was sitting behind bars with nothing but a number two pencil in his hand and an idea in his head. Fast forward to today, and a towering portrait of his face hangs in an art gallery at the Truth to Power art exhibition in Philadelphia.

Forbes' ninth annual list of the best colleges in the United States included a total of 660 public and private universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies. The top three spots went to Stanford, Williams and Princeton, respectively. 

“Each book that a person has read lowers their evaluation of Donald Trump by roughly 2-3 points [on a 100-point scale],” Mutz wrote in her analysis.

On July 25th, the College Promise Campaign and Innovative Educators hosted a discussion focusing on free community college. The event started with a screening of No Greater Odds, a film about students’ experiences at the College of Southern Nevada.

Top national security officials expressed their opinions of how disastrous it would be for national security to have Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as president.

Communication Professor David Eisenhower is teaching a class in the fall called Conventions, Campaigns and Debates, and the pre-requisite for the class is that students must attend either the Republican National Convention or the DNC. 

This was the first time that the Trump campaign, known for noncommittal policy positions, publicly addressed the issue in detail.

Will Hampton and Bill Lynch, 2010 College graduates, launched HotMaps, a social networking app that streamlines the search for nightlife locations using a numerical rating system on June 29.