Right now on this campus, thousands of pre-med students shuffle to their massive Bio lectures, their on-campus research positions, their clinical volunteering jobs, their health related extracurriculars, or their activities unrelated to medicine but picked because medical schools prefer them. Ask any of them about it, and I expect they will all say the same thing: it sucks.
This week’s issue of The Nation featured two cover articles. “Why this Socialist Feminist is for Hillary,” by Suzanna Danuta Walters and “Why this Socialist Feminist is not Voting for Hillary,” by Liza Featherstone.
There’s a war over speech happening on college campuses. Namely, over what gets to be said, and who gets to say it.
I remember my first night in the Quadrangle, lying on a hard and slightly stained mattress, surrounded by four intimidatingly blank walls, and listening to the heartbeat of an unfamiliar city outside my window.
CLAUDIA LI is a College sophomore from Santa Clara, California.
CLAUDIA LI is a College sophomore from Santa Clara, California.
This week’s issue of The Nation featured two cover articles. “Why this Socialist Feminist is for Hillary,” by Suzanna Danuta Walters and “Why this Socialist Feminist is not Voting for Hillary,” by Liza Featherstone.
There’s a war over speech happening on college campuses. Namely, over what gets to be said, and who gets to say it.
Earlier this week, Kenny Jones — a former administrator in the Office for Fraternity and Sorority Life — was found to have misrepresented his academic credentials on multiple occasions.
SHUN SAKAI is a College junior from Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Since middle school, every student has heard just about all there is to know about crafting an argument.
There is a line of reasoning that goes as follows: playing the Powerball lottery may not make much financial sense, but the joy you get from dreaming about winning over a billion dollars is well worth the $2.
BEN CLAAR is a College freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y.
With Penn recently considering divestment from fossil fuels, yet another college now questions the propriety of investing its endowments based on ethical inclinations.
It would be pointless for me to write a column arguing that the United States should lower the national minimum drinking age to 18 for two reasons. First, it would be pointless because this is Penn, and the proposal would likely be so uncontroversial among whatever readership I have that it would verge on being a waste of time.
CLAUDIA LI is a College sophomore from Santa Clara, California.
Protests are symbolic at their core. They signal a dissatisfaction with the greater system (whether it be white supremacist, patriarchal, imperialist) manifesting beneath the surface of an otherwise functional society. Nowadays, they signal change, but they don’t necessarily create it.
The contemporary tropes of International Baccalaureate scores and Radian apartments, of Western-tinted accents and Castle rushees, point to some kind of unspoken acceptance of the fact that nowadays, international Penn students just tend to be wealthier.
Currently my body is ink-free, but I soon plan on changing that. I want a tattoo and have promised three different friends that I would get a tattoo with them in the next few months. Statistically, at least one of them won’t chicken out, so it’s very likely that within the next few months my ink virginity will be taken from me.
Rong Xiang is a College freshman from Cherry Hill, N.J. Her email address rxiang@sas.upenn.edu.
Would you listen to Albert Einstein’s political counsel? Terence Tao’s opinion on drug policy?
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