Sure, I have been cracking unemployment jokes all year to hide how embarrassed I am and to hopefully divert people from feeling any ounce of pity. 

Although the DP helped me avoid my problems, it also provided me with the resources to start acknowledging them. 

Replaying the images from the last four years in my mind, there are many moments at Penn I don’t think I’ll ever forget (and many that are already forgotten). And for the most part, these moments aren’t the planned ones.

Class clownism goes beyond evoking a reaction. 

I just wish I had come here once these issues were addressed.

When you think about why you’re upset about something, the bigger picture comes into play.

But as I come to the end of my college career, I’m hesitant to allow my perception of the past four years to be colored so negatively. 

I can’t live my life thinking that I’ll soon die. At a certain point I’m willing to suspend disbelief: to let myself think I have the capacity to live a healthy and ordinary — maybe, even, an extraordinary — life.

The DP taught me how deeply fulfilling it can be to devote yourself to something important, even without the dangling carrot of external validation from grades and other “objective” measures of success we obsess over on this campus.

Now though, for what feels like the first time, I’m not dragging my feet. I’m ready, heck, I’m excited to move on because I feel like I took a mighty swing at this college thing.

As much as The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board believes our Quaker peers are the brightest in the Ivy League, we don’t think we’re that much smarter, and we’d appreciate some more time off.

 The process of reflecting was valuable in that it was a cognizant deliberation and analysis of my mentality and actions. It helped me break out of habit and identity my faults, my ways of responding to situations, and the methods I can take to improve my lifestyle. It also helped raise self-acceptance as I pinpointed victories that I’ve achieved through hard work and compassion.

I will always have to choose between pursuing my passions in the United States of America and being with my family. If I choose one, I can’t have the other.

Students should know of every advantage Penn’s financial aid offers in order to allow them the same access as Penn students not on financial aid.  

The truth of the matter, and what some are so quick to overlook, as they are blindsided by their activist ambitions, is that having the ability to volunteer or take on an unpaid internship exudes extreme privilege. 

We could live incredibly sustainable lives. But we don’t.

The entire system of summer courses at Penn benefits mainly wealthy students.