Penn students should not hesitate to use Penn Walk for reasons as simple as it is late and dark, they are lost, or they would like company. 

While no one has the greatest relationship with all of their old teachers, I would like to believe that for everyone, there was at least one teacher who made a positive and enduring impact on their life. To go back and say thank you is something so simple, but to them, it could mean the world.

There's a balance you need to strike: don't completely dismiss what your loved ones have to say, but don't change simply to fit their needs.

At Penn, technology is so difficult to escape and comes with many risks and long-term effects on the eyes. 

While it is clear that the administration is trying to incentivize students to purchase a dining plan, there ways to do so without scamming them into losing money.

How long the sustainability trend will last is open to discretion and debate, and it is reasonable to believe that green consumption, which tricks us into thinking that buying or acting green is the full extent to which we can “do our part,” is holding back the sociocultural transformation that we need to move the needle. 

Summer break is the time where we are liberated to pursue that project that has no clear payoff, but is something we are passionate about, to read that book we’ve been putting off for months, or even just to curl up in bed and binge Netflix all day.

Now, as a rising sophomore, I have more certainty and security than I would have had if I had just focused on fulfilling every requirement for the College. 

Sure, I have been cracking unemployment jokes all year to hide how embarrassed I am and to hopefully divert people from feeling any ounce of pity. 

Although the DP helped me avoid my problems, it also provided me with the resources to start acknowledging them. 

Replaying the images from the last four years in my mind, there are many moments at Penn I don’t think I’ll ever forget (and many that are already forgotten). And for the most part, these moments aren’t the planned ones.

Class clownism goes beyond evoking a reaction. 

I just wish I had come here once these issues were addressed.

When you think about why you’re upset about something, the bigger picture comes into play.

But as I come to the end of my college career, I’m hesitant to allow my perception of the past four years to be colored so negatively. 

I can’t live my life thinking that I’ll soon die. At a certain point I’m willing to suspend disbelief: to let myself think I have the capacity to live a healthy and ordinary — maybe, even, an extraordinary — life.

The DP taught me how deeply fulfilling it can be to devote yourself to something important, even without the dangling carrot of external validation from grades and other “objective” measures of success we obsess over on this campus.