For the last month, whenever someone has asked me, “What are you up to?” I’ve always given them the same reply: “I’m studying for the MCAT.” God only knows how many conversations I’ve defaulted to that lazy small talk. Sitting for the MCAT is a notable event that many students study several months for.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif. Her email is claudli@sas.upenn.edu.
Few focal points of the Republican presidential cycle stood out with as much singularity and clarity as the promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, a rallying cry for many of the Trump electorate, regardless of class, race, gender.
Year after year stories reach the news about sexual assault on college campuses across the US. Yet my response remains different than the narratives I see presented by the media.
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College junior from Kirtland, Ohio.
GROUP THINK is The DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
GROUP THINK is The DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif. Her email is claudli@sas.upenn.edu.
Few focal points of the Republican presidential cycle stood out with as much singularity and clarity as the promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, a rallying cry for many of the Trump electorate, regardless of class, race, gender.
Although the University denied knowledge of any Penn staff being instructed to interfere with the protests, a FRES worker running the engine of a noisy maintenance vehicle at the site of one of the demonstrations said he had been instructed to drown out the protesters by someone from the University.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
Tomorrow, at around noon, Donald Trump will become the President of the United States. The bombastic billionaire, whose improbable promotion to power shattered every political norm from fundraising to gaffe-making, will assume the most important political office on earth.
I once wrote an article in which I refused to give up red lipstick despite surrendering eye makeup, and, with all the misogyny to which Trump's election has set us back, I think it's about time I explained why. What got me started thinking about it was a statement my friend made to me.
Have you ever bitten into a piece of pizza in a Dining Hall that you knew was too hot and burned your tongue?
Our country faces a crisis that begins with the letter “D.” No, it is not our President-elect Donald Trump.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
This semester will be my last one at Penn. I recently discovered that I have accumulated enough credits to graduate a year in advance.
Tuition at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2016-2017 academic year is $45,556. If you assume a course load of 4.0 credits, you’re spending over $100 per hour of class time.
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College junior from Kirtland, OH.
LANGSTON MACDIARMID is an Engineering senior from Pittsburgh, PA.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y. His email is bclaar@sas.upenn.edu.
Last semester was honestly the worst semester I’ve had at Penn so far. And all because of one thing: the white professors I’ve had at Penn.
The shirt read “THE PUSSY GRABS BACK,” accompanied by a drawing of a kitten attacking Donald Trump’s face.
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