Agatha Advincula

Agatha Advinculca, former DP opinion deputy editor, takes an existential look at her past four years at the DP and Penn.  

Columnist Agatha Advincula advises incoming college students on what they should know about Penn.

Little has changed since the pandemic began, so why are Penn's deans trying to shift the culture of the pass/fail option which gives students the flexibility to avoid pandemic-induced educational disruptions?

Within the confines of a Zoom call, Penn’s community still continues to thrive. Keeping the fighter’s mindset of 2020 will help us prepare for another year of unknowns.

Forrest Church, a prominent theologian and Unitarian Universalist wrote, “We are not human because we think. We are human because we care.” So let’s start acting like it.

Based on the idea that we are all responsible enough to look out for each other, the Student Campus Compact places the onus on us to make the safest choices.

This abstracted version of Penn’s community, though inspiring, still fails to provide students with one of Penn’s core values: engagement. 

No one is morally impure for accepting Biden as the clearest way forward.  

It’s okay to be scared and still make contingency plans. It’s okay to be frustrated with the ways in which Penn has often left us in the dark and it’s okay to be worried about the future.

It is easy to look at Sanders’ numbers in the primaries and polls and feel as though he is destined to be the candidate. But Sanders’ political progressivism has never stood the test of the general public.