While study abroad offers students a unique opportunity to live in new parts of the world, students who are leaving soon for unfamiliar places should make sure that they take advantage of the chance to engage with the people that live in these countries, rather than only sticking with fellow Penn students.

Nearly all the town's buildings had been razed for scrap wood, and those that remained standing had either caved-in, or seemed to be held up by the dead trees rising besides them.

The trail began at the grounds of the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a pink concrete building perched on the slopes of Green Mountain, near Boulder, Colorado.

Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what it would take for someone of one political persuasion to ‘switch sides’. There’s a lot of merit to the idea that we, especially at Penn, restrict ourselves to ‘echo chambers’ where our communities and groups are just reflections of our own backgrounds and beliefs.

The rise of multiculturalism has created an environment where all backgrounds, and by extension all opinions, are given equal standing.

Sometime in 1999 my father took me along on his daily ride to work. He was a landscape architect and had been working on planting a rose garden in the backyard of a large, concrete house.

I am throwing JFK a hundredth birthday party on May 29th. The signature drink will be the Jack & Coke; pun intended.

The one other time I wrote about my experience as the “DP Guy,” I mentioned that I grew up listening to The Clash.

I’ve spent four years studying philosophy, and all I have to show for it is a lot of uncertainty about life.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Actually, it was probably more worst of times, but who’s counting?

The Daily Pennsylvanian has a challenging road ahead. The entire media industry is changing.

There’s nothing sadder than the final page of a book.

“LEAVE AND NEVER RETURN.” I would read those four words every day as I exited 4015 Walnut. Yet every day, I always returned.