I 've had the privilege of working in the behavior service at Ryan Veterinary Hospital for 13 years. This year's celebration of the 125th anniversary of the School of Veterinary Medicine is a muted one as our school is in jeopardy of its excellence - perhaps its existence.
Everyone loves a superhero story – civilians taking a stand against wrong-doers. And let’s be honest, with three shootings in one night, a rape and a rampage in the last two weeks, Philly is starting to sound more like Gotham than the City of Brotherly Love.
Roughly 8,000 hours from now, I will be graduating. I will be leaving Penn with a bevy of experiences, a slightly different outlook and an Ivy League education - things that will, I hope, guide me well both in life and in this uncertain job market. Yet, despite all of this uncertainty, I am sure of one thing: whoever turns up as our graduation speaker next year will not influence my life that much.
Jake Cassman has a dream. "I want more than anything to be in a professional rock band, although I could also see myself as a producer if I learn how to record properly." A rising sophomore and prospective music and political science major, he plays the keyboard, sings and idolizes Matt Bellamy (the frontman of the band Muse) and is currently in the late writing process of his first rock opera.
Ilana Millner is a rising College senior from Washington Crossing, Pa. Her e-mail address is millner@dailypennsylvanian.com.
It’s the first thing overly eager pre-frosh see as they plan their first semester at Penn, and it’s the last thing seniors check before they are cleared to graduate. And in recent history, Penn InTouch, with its archaic design and clunky interface, has been the shame and chagrin of every Penn student.
It’s the first thing overly eager pre-frosh see as they plan their first semester at Penn, and it’s the last thing seniors check before they are cleared to graduate. And in recent history, Penn InTouch, with its archaic design and clunky interface, has been the shame and chagrin of every Penn student.
Everyone loves a superhero story – civilians taking a stand against wrong-doers. And let’s be honest, with three shootings in one night, a rape and a rampage in the last two weeks, Philly is starting to sound more like Gotham than the City of Brotherly Love.
Roughly 8,000 hours from now, I will be graduating. I will be leaving Penn with a bevy of experiences, a slightly different outlook and an Ivy League education - things that will, I hope, guide me well both in life and in this uncertain job market. Yet, despite all of this uncertainty, I am sure of one thing: whoever turns up as our graduation speaker next year will not influence my life that much.
Daniel Schwartz is a rising College senior from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Remember when you'd open your mail box, excited to be receiving anything, --only to be disappointed by yet another credit card offer? These spam-like letters arrived from all sorts of places, from department stores to gas companies. Most stores still offer every customer the opportunity to register for a store benefits credit card.
Thanks to online social networking, Penn has had its fair share of flash mobs, including dance parties in Fisher Fine Arts Library and pillow fights on Locust Walk. But these seemingly light-hearted organized events took a turn for the dangerous when over one hundred youths swarmed South Philadelphia last Saturday.
Nobody wants to get swine flu, and for good reason. With symptoms like fever, coughing, headache and possible death, the disease is the greatest threat to our health since the Great Meningitis Outbreak of 2009. But there is one thing people seem more afraid of than contracting swine flu - calling it that.
Janice Dow is a rising College junior from Los Angeles. Her e-mail address is dow@dailypennsylvanian.com.
I am pleased to report we have taken the first step toward reinventing the eastern edge of Penn's campus. Earlier this spring, construction was completed on the Weave Bridge, a beautiful new pedestrian span designed by Penn's own Cecil Balmond, the Paul Philippe Cret Practice Professor of Architecture.
My application essay to Penn included the line "I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom," from the Elton John song appropriately titled, "Philadelphia Freedom." This was something of a lie. As a native of Washington, D.C., I often passed the city on the Amtrak train to New York or Boston, and took class trips to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
Two weeks ago I sat in Lovers & Madmen polishing my creative nonfiction final portfolio as it poured outside. I was miserable. It's not that I disliked my work; in fact, I loved this class. But each letter I typed, like steps down a plank, reminded me I was that much closer to finishing my time at Penn.
A Series of Memos on the Occasion of our Graduation from Childhood. In lieu of a column this week, I've decided to take a page from 34th Street and pen a few Shoutout-esque letters to express my feelings toward various people and/or inanimate objects (minus Robert Pattinson this time).
As graduation approaches, I've been thinking quite a bit about things I have not done. It was sometime while watching the impossibly talented members of the Excelano Project perform several weeks ago that I realized I hadn't accomplished or seen 90 percent of what I told myself I would as a dewy-eyed freshmen.
Solutions by The State News
