When your research begins to step into the fray of politics, your motives immediately start to come into question.
Unlike many of our peer institutions, Penn has made it a priority to promote conversations about consent.
It’s surprising how quickly we can forget to be aware of things beyond ourselves if we don’t make a conscious effort to do so.
One of the rules I used to have for myself was that I’d never see a therapist. I thought that therapy was self-indulgent, excessive, the stuff of Woody Allen movies and not something you do in real life. But that changed two weeks ago.
While I celebrate our entrepreneurial energy as vibrant evidence that the American Dream is alive, profit-driven startups should be balanced by social enterprises guided by the public good.
When I came to Penn, I brought that superhero mindset with me. If anyone asked me how I was doing, I’d answer, “Good!” It’s easy to give that automatic response and move on — I mean, is Superman ever not good?
When I came to Penn, I brought that superhero mindset with me. If anyone asked me how I was doing, I’d answer, “Good!” It’s easy to give that automatic response and move on — I mean, is Superman ever not good?
Unlike many of our peer institutions, Penn has made it a priority to promote conversations about consent.
It’s surprising how quickly we can forget to be aware of things beyond ourselves if we don’t make a conscious effort to do so.
If we have this much dedication towards making only money, we might as well call it what it is: a religion.
Technology companies are constantly improving and refining their products, but our incessant desire for a game changer has forced them to market touch-ups as turning points.
Instead of telling you that “college flies by” or “it’s the shortest four years of your life,” I have a new tidbit of advice: Stop using the word “sometime.”
I have a theory that the student body of Penn is composed of maybe 30 percent introverts, and of that 30 percent, about half of those spend their first few years trying to pretend they’re extroverts like everyone else.
Uber brings a better, more efficient service to consumers — and that threatens the livelihood of entrenched taxi unions and the City Hall politicians and bureaucrats beholden to their interests.
It’s easy to think we need an even higher GPA and more impressive extracurriculars if we are to compete with students from HYP.
In most cases, sexting holds the same appeal as any other erotic act — the only difference is that it’s digitalized.
Amidst all of the noise about Syria coming from the talking heads in Washington, a bigger point has largely been ignored.
There is a large discrepancy between the medically accepted notions of healthy bodies and the images encouraged by popular culture, and I’m not the only one who’s been affected by it.
We’re seeing senior women with full courseloads, a work-study or part-time job, relationships and leadership positions who, shockingly, want to take a few hours to themselves sometimes. What’s so wrong with that? Washed up? We think not.
According to some analysts, Amazon Prime is part of a huge scheme to alter the way internet consumers consume.
Acting like a real person means, essentially, acting like a grown-up, an adult. But it doesn’t have the same, sad, unexciting connotation as those other terms.
The discourse of empowerment makes us feel good about putting a Band-Aid on something while avoiding actually questioning our role in systematic racism, oppression and injustice.
The ivory tower is often derided for how elitist and out of touch it is, but isolation from the world is a good and necessary thing.
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