Sara Merican | To mean what I say
I refuse to dress my words up anymore, or play mind games with words. I want my words to be true.
I refuse to dress my words up anymore, or play mind games with words. I want my words to be true.
Hooking up is perpetuated throughout campus as a part of Penn life, and as a Penn student, you are physically stuck here.
If we continue to major shame on a larger scale, we’ll most likely study subjects we don’t care for and will perform poorly in our studies. If we don’t enjoy what we’re doing, it will be much harder for us to succeed in the long run.
The petition at issue is poorly-argued and out of touch, but the idea that we are entitled to this kind of social life didn’t start with those who wrote and supported its message.
Hooking up is perpetuated throughout campus as a part of Penn life, and as a Penn student, you are physically stuck here.
If we continue to major shame on a larger scale, we’ll most likely study subjects we don’t care for and will perform poorly in our studies. If we don’t enjoy what we’re doing, it will be much harder for us to succeed in the long run.
Being in a single is not the most luxurious experience in the world. There are many perks to having your own space, but the social drawbacks are much more impactful.
This semester, I had second thoughts, but ended up registering for Korean again. Something keeps me going back.
Penn’s competitive club culture is not going away, and rejection itself is not going away, either.
President Trump was right to rescind President Obama’s unconstitutional DACA executive order. He was also right to call for Congress to send him a bill making DACA U.S. law.
These Dreamers are more than statistics, more than business-owners, more than contributing students, more than researchers or computer scientists.
Should universities care about their ranking? Why or why not?
If all cultures are truly not created equal, then we must examine the downside of white European culture before pointing the finger elsewhere.
We place too high of a value on the number of choices we’re offered and we’re so in love with the agency we have that we don’t stop to consider how daunting it all is.
It is about time that we work against the social current that normalizes toxicity in our club culture rather than conform to it.
The College must offer less electives and instead use the space for more adequate development of each major.
As a freshman there’s a great deal of pressure to prove that you’re enjoying college at any school, particularly at one commonly referred to as the “social Ivy.”
In the American university system, we are connected, not separated.
I suspect that I will not be the only one who feels that 16 years of schooling has led us to no certain answers.
If I’ve learned anything from my peers, it’s that the goal of your four years should not be to seek out the best things about Penn but rather to find the things that you think need changing.