Rather than feeling more oriented to Penn, all of this has left me feeling a bit lost and confused.
If other minorities can have developed characters — think Kurt from “Glee” or Sophia from “Orange is the New Black” — why can’t Asian-Americans?
Over the past week, as freshmen have become oriented (or disoriented) on campus, their sex appeal is at its peak.
The Latest
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Rachel del Valle
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Sept. 2, 2013
In most situations, hugs are an inordinately intimate greeting. Sometimes I find myself in the grasp of a hug with someone who I’d never even had a one-on-one conversation with.
Over the summer, transitioning from a loud college student to a perfectly postured professional was tough.
While the boycott has succeeded in raising awareness, the philosophy of it is misguided.
While the boycott has succeeded in raising awareness, the philosophy of it is misguided.
If other minorities can have developed characters — think Kurt from “Glee” or Sophia from “Orange is the New Black” — why can’t Asian-Americans?
Over the past week, as freshmen have become oriented (or disoriented) on campus, their sex appeal is at its peak.
Originally, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted from my time off, but now I realize that what I wanted was a renewed sense of hope and imagination. And I’m happy to say that I found that.
Read on for a few of the updates we’ve made for this fall.
To help you out, here’s a list of things we wish we had been told — or wish we had listened to — when we were in your shoes.
Penn Compact 2020 renews Penn’s fundamental priorities — increasing access, integrating knowledge and engaging locally, nationally and globally.
?Ali Kokot & Hayley Brooks | Share the toil, get more spoils
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Ali Kokot and Hayley Brooks
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Aug. 26, 2013
After New York summers spent at Nickelodeon and in the food business, we got a preview of how our two-brained efforts at Penn will soon translate into the professional world.
When I graduate at the end of this year, I’ve been promised my own sandwich printed on the Bui’s food truck menu.
I always wanted to move to New York City. Ironically, now that I’m at the age where moving to New York on my own is a possibility, I’m coming up with more cons than pros.
In elementary school, I made an unhealthy amount of lists. I was, to say the least, the opposite of an impulsive child. Earlier this week, however, I jumped out of a plane.
How have we arrived at the point where an individual who served in the U.S. military and was injured while doing so, spent 15 years in service to fellow mankind and has the will and aptitude to realize entrance to an Ivy League institution, can reach poverty status?
To strike at the heart of the problem and help formulate a truly just peace for Israelis and Palestinians, we must do better than adopt a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions platform which aims to punish Israel for its alleged “apartheid” policies without also acknowledging its legitimate security concerns
As I have learned, peppering racial tensions with humor combats an uncomfortable situation because it counteracts a negative vibe with the positive lightness that comes with humor.
When it comes to Penn Alexander, Penn is acting in its own self-interest. In helping create the school, which it did more than 10 years ago, the University was much more interested in creating a place of instruction for the children of its own faculty and staff than for the children of the West Philadelphia community at large.
