A graphic of the important information for voting in the Pennsylvania primary on May 18.

Congratulations to everyone leaving the Penn nest. You’ve done brilliant things here, and we’re sure you’ll keep shining.

Somehow, in the most competitive place I’ve ever been, I quit planning and started enjoying myself.

Penn — or more precisely — the people I’ve met at Penn, have played a huge role in that process of discovery.

Despite pervasive stigmas casting nursing as a female field, Penn’s small number of male nurses has begun to grow.

You don’t have to be a reporter to make the realizations I have during my time at Penn. Pursue your passions, whatever they are.

Following a vote last month to add a sorority to campus, the Panhellenic Council extension committee voted May 3 to add the new sorority in 2011 rather than 2012. The sorority will be Penn’s eighth after Phi Sigma Sigma closes at the end of this academic year.

If there’s any lesson that I could hope to impart, it’s this: Don’t shy away from the things that you love, no matter how difficult or different they seem.

Thirty years ago, before the term post-traumatic stress disorder was used in mental health discourse, Edna Foa wondered how individuals processed disturbing and distressing events. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs now treats PTSD patients, thanks to Foa’s treatment program.

When I applied to Penn, I wrote my retirement speech for my autobiography’s page 217. Today, I rewrote that speech.

Though for members of the senior class, Monday’s Commencement will mark the official end of their time at Penn, “there’s no excuse to stop involvement,” according to 2006 graduate Andrew Rosenthal, president of the Penn Alumni Club of Philadelphia.

Ever since he left Penn, 2005 College graduate Noah Pink has been following his dreams and working as a filmmaker. In his newest film, Pink tracks the adventures of his characters in a pursuit to follow their own dreams and become American rap artists.

I could not have expected that the past four years would unfold as they did. And the narrative of my Penn experience has been full of surprises.

I can confidently say I’m sick of the “then” and the “now” — I’m ready for the “next.”

The venture is a one-man operation by College senior Langston Smith, who handled everything the small business needed — from product design to marketing to website development.

Instead of writing final papers or taking exams, students enrolled in “Architecture 302: Investigating Product Design” were able to make their own semester-culminating projects.

With just days to go before next Tuesday’s primary, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) are tied for the Democratic Senate nomination.