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Rebecca Alifimoff | Why study abroad shouldn’t count in your GPA
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Rebecca Alifimoff
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March 27, 2018
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.
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Spencer Swanson
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April 1, 2018
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.
Carlos Arias Vivas | What Penn’s drag performers taught me about self-exploration
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Carlos Arias Vivas
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March 29, 2018
The night at the drag show showed me a new level of confidence I know I can adapt in my daily life.
Carlos Arias Vivas | What Penn’s drag performers taught me about self-exploration
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Carlos Arias Vivas
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March 29, 2018
The night at the drag show showed me a new level of confidence I know I can adapt in my daily life.
Rebecca Alifimoff | Why study abroad shouldn’t count in your GPA
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Rebecca Alifimoff
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March 27, 2018
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.
Walking down Locust between the snarties connected me with multiple groups I’d otherwise have no business associating with, and connected me to my peers in a way that could only come about here and now.
I feel as if there is something wrong with me, especially because everyone around me seems to be moving on. And for the first time in my life, I don’t know what’s going to happen.
Columnist Lucy Hu takes to Locust Walk to get students' opinions on Penn's "liberal bubble" in a new weekly video series.
You don’t have to fill every week. You don’t have to always be doing “something.” Summer isn’t a competition.
Even though I was excited to receive my results, I knew that the outcome wouldn’t dramatically change who I was. Whatever 23andMe had in store, my upbringing is already set in stone.
We can no longer completely separate our private lives from our technological footprint.
Jennifer Lee | What designer threads and Penn Crushes reveal about our desire to be seen
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Jennifer Lee
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March 12, 2018
Many Penn students’ fixation on fashion is due to the simple fact that we know people will be watching.
Mateen Tabatabaei | What we can learn from problematic historical figures
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Mateen Tabatabaei
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March 12, 2018
How should we deal with great works by ethically dubious people or communities, even in the past?
I never realized how worthless being mediocre can make us feel. I’m sure that everyone at Penn has experienced at some point the sensation of being “less than,” of trying one’s best and still falling short.
What happens when the cost of joining a Panhellenic sorority is as opaque as it is exclusionary?
Christine Olagun-Samuel | Police response to Eagles riots reveals double standard
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Christine Olagun-Samuel
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Feb. 26, 2018
In the case of actually violent and disruptive acts, the police force wasn’t prepared to keep fans accountable. Yet, in the case of peaceful protest, advocating for protection against unjust law enforcement, police reinforcement seem prepared with a militaristic response.
