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Uber brings a better, more efficient service to consumers — and that threatens the livelihood of entrenched taxi unions and the City Hall politicians and bureaucrats beholden to their interests.
It’s easy to think we need an even higher GPA and more impressive extracurriculars if we are to compete with students from HYP.
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Ryan Daniels
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Sept. 16, 2013
Technology companies are constantly improving and refining their products, but our incessant desire for a game changer has forced them to market touch-ups as turning points.
Instead of telling you that “college flies by” or “it’s the shortest four years of your life,” I have a new tidbit of advice: Stop using the word “sometime.”
I have a theory that the student body of Penn is composed of maybe 30 percent introverts, and of that 30 percent, about half of those spend their first few years trying to pretend they’re extroverts like everyone else.
I have a theory that the student body of Penn is composed of maybe 30 percent introverts, and of that 30 percent, about half of those spend their first few years trying to pretend they’re extroverts like everyone else.
Uber brings a better, more efficient service to consumers — and that threatens the livelihood of entrenched taxi unions and the City Hall politicians and bureaucrats beholden to their interests.
It’s easy to think we need an even higher GPA and more impressive extracurriculars if we are to compete with students from HYP.
In most cases, sexting holds the same appeal as any other erotic act — the only difference is that it’s digitalized.
Amidst all of the noise about Syria coming from the talking heads in Washington, a bigger point has largely been ignored.
There is a large discrepancy between the medically accepted notions of healthy bodies and the images encouraged by popular culture, and I’m not the only one who’s been affected by it.
We’re seeing senior women with full courseloads, a work-study or part-time job, relationships and leadership positions who, shockingly, want to take a few hours to themselves sometimes. What’s so wrong with that? Washed up? We think not.
According to some analysts, Amazon Prime is part of a huge scheme to alter the way internet consumers consume.
Acting like a real person means, essentially, acting like a grown-up, an adult. But it doesn’t have the same, sad, unexciting connotation as those other terms.
The discourse of empowerment makes us feel good about putting a Band-Aid on something while avoiding actually questioning our role in systematic racism, oppression and injustice.
The ivory tower is often derided for how elitist and out of touch it is, but isolation from the world is a good and necessary thing.
Every year that I have been at Penn, I have been chilled by the premature deaths in our University community.
More than an eighth of the undergraduates at Penn are international students and a significant fraction of the faculty is also foreign, meaning that under FISA, the government can track all their communications.
It is possible to divorce supporting the troops as a whole political entity from respecting the individuals who serve.
The twerk used to be just a bouncy dance that came of age in a culture where people just wanted to get down and have a good time. It was good, clean fun.
Demeaning the Penn State name is just another identity crisis of our University.
Many professionals in the corporate world spend plenty of time on public interest projects. Unfortunately, few students — including myself over the past few years — know about these people.
