It’s difficult to navigate this kind of lifestyle when you aren’t naturally a chatty, extroverted person, always ready to take on the day and deal with the people in your life with excitement and gusto.

Columnist Lucy Hu takes to Locust Walk to get students' opinions on legacy admissions in the second installment of her video series, "Locust Talk." 

Some argue that the main crux of university is to take classes and earn a degree, and therefore, academic excellence is key to success. But, the purpose of university is to provide an education, and the purpose of education extends far beyond classroom learning.

It’s easy to stand for a principle like the right to free speech when the speech in question poses no threat to oneself.

The sheer number of articles I’ve read against aspects of Greek life is surprising in itself, but even more surprising is how few of those writers actually experienced what they claimed to understand. 

When did we forget to think about what we like to study and stand our ground? When did we forget to think for ourselves?

We are running for Undergraduate Assembly President and Vice President because we have the talent, vision, and perspective to represent and lead the student body.

I want to tell them not to give themselves so easily to others because they’ll disappoint you in the end. I want to say, prepare yourselves for the storm.

Let’s demand more effective policy change from the administration — Penn can combat sexual assault without treating its students like minors.   

The controversies surrounding Donald Trump as a shady businessman, uncouth politician, groping womanizer, and increasingly failed president should be motivation enough for the University to take a bold stand.

Christianity for me was not the end to the search for meaning, but rather, something that pointed me to where I should search.

The night at the drag show showed me a new level of confidence I know I can adapt in my daily life.

Penn students should be trusted to make the most of their study abroad experiences, both academically and personally, without being limited by the narrow metric of the GPA.

Underneath the perfect facade of the superstar student, there are always doubts, and even regrets, about the choices they have made. There are infinite paths we can all go.

It’s time for Asian Americans to stop talking about their struggles in the “API community,” without actually knowing anything about the PI community.

Penn might not be “the best” school in the Ivy League, but let me pose an important question: why does it matter? And why does it hurt our egos so much? Four years go by too quickly to walk around with chips on our shoulders. 

Wax’s general and anecdotal observations may be distasteful and impolitic, but equating them with a breach of privacy to further “her scholarly ends,” as Ruger puts it, seems dishonest.