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(03/24/21 12:06am)
Kywe Aung* (C ’24) begins his mornings by opening the Canvas website. If the page is available, Kywe downloads all the content he can get his hands on, extracting coding assignments and projects so they’ll be available to him offline. At around 3 p.m., he goes for a jog, running laps around the yard outside his home. He continues to work on projects and homework until around midnight.
(03/18/21 11:58pm)
Sue Weber teaches class from her garage, surrounded by exhaust fumes, concrete walls, and towers of a pandemic staple: toilet paper rolls.
(03/04/21 5:00am)
It was Saturday, July 18, 2020, and Lavanya Neti (W '25) was on hold with the ACT company for the third time that day. She sat in the back of her parents’ car with her last meal—vegan brunch from a stop in Davis, Calif.—twisting in her stomach and a thousand questions running through her mind. She hadn’t heard from the ACT since scheduling her test a few days before, but her family had decided to start the road trip to the testing center anyway. They could use the change of scenery.
(02/25/21 5:00am)
Pennsylvania likely decided the 2020 presidential election. But the deciding factors weren’t what you think.
(02/19/21 4:45pm)
I’m a pre–med studying English. That’s not a contradiction.
(02/09/21 11:05pm)
On her first real date with her high school semi–sweetheart, Jo Howard (C '24) already knew their relationship’s expiration date. The pandemic provided the perfect opportunity to finally find closure from the drawn–out, will–they–won’t–they high school relationship that existed between Jo and her now–ex.
(02/04/21 1:55pm)
Penn's most celebrated dermatologist experimented on incarcerated people. The University still hasn't owned up to his legacy.
(01/28/21 5:00am)
Andre Brown never expected to see his name in print. Though he knew he possessed a natural flair for writing, Andre didn’t think that he would have an audience for his work.
(01/21/21 4:17pm)
Caroline*, a junior professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, works two full–time jobs at once. With her daycare center closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Caroline must teach multiple Penn classes and conduct research while watching her two children, both of whom are under the age of five.
(11/30/20 12:02am)
It’s Jan. 18, 2020, only a couple months before the pandemic begins. On OAX bid day, new members are gathered inside the sorority house. They receive their bid day t–shirts, embellished with OAX’s logo, and get to know the unfamiliar faces. It’s snowing, and the older OAX members are waiting outside.
(11/19/20 1:31am)
The closest you’ll get to heaven in West Philadelphia is a sizzling vegetarian meatball dripping in hot sauce and cheese. It’s a Monday afternoon in the fall, and you’re starting to feel the weight of the work that you didn’t do over the weekend. Between your 11 am and 1 pm lectures, you wander over to Houston Hall, hunching your back to the cold and tucking your hands into the sleeves of your sweater. Students bustle around you, whining about a class, lusting after a Hinge match, chuckling through a story of last night’s drunken mistakes. But you can’t hear anything except the growl of your stomach.
(11/15/20 4:59am)
Justin Chan (W ‘23), a Republican, doesn’t like Trump.
(10/28/20 4:55pm)
Jason Shu (C ‘22) walked into the main concert hall with his cello on his back. Instrument cases filled the first few rows of seats as the musicians unpacked, bringing the first breath of air into their saxes or the first sweep of the bow across their violins. The stage, lined with row after row of black chairs and music stands, quickly filled as members began to warm up. At first, the sound was loud, chaotic: a flute here practiced a solo, a few trumpets there rehearsed another line of music. As Jason found his way to the cello section and gathered his music, conductor Thomas Hong took to his stand at the front of the stage, baton in hand.
(10/15/20 3:24pm)
When the pandemic began back in March, it was easy for students to joke about being stuck inside during spring break and preparing for a triumphant return to campus parties in a matter of weeks. But as weeks turned into months and the future looked increasingly bleak, the date for a return to normalcy fell back further and further: dreams of an in–person fall shifted into hopes for a hybrid fall. With those hopes dashed, students are now holding onto an in–person spring semester that may or may not happen.
(10/05/20 9:46pm)
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(09/30/20 1:00pm)
It’s rare to feel yourself standing in the middle of history. Rarer still to know that you could have been a casualty. On July 5, 2009, Alim* experienced both.
(09/28/20 2:10am)
Mehmed Can Özkan (C ‘24) may be spending his first semester of college at home in Istanbul, Turkey, but his body is living on Philadelphia time.
(09/03/20 7:52pm)
Like most teenagers sent home early from college, I spent a vast majority of the quarantine period staring down the end of a barrel with the promise of never–ending boredom. In an effort to curtail those feelings, I decided to participate in the long–standing Generation Z tradition of putting off all impending work in favor of starting a new show. Critical acclaim and numerous over–enthusiastic tirades from my friends pushed me to start Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender.
(09/20/20 2:38am)
Last August, during the thick of NSO, two white male students broke into another student’s apartment and refused to leave. The victim spoke on the condition of anonymity, but her story reveals a malignant societal truth that also infects campus life at Penn: white privilege exists unchecked.
(08/25/20 4:29pm)
Google “Professor Herman Beavers,” and you'll easily see all of the different roles Dr. Beavers plays at Penn: professor of English, Africana Studies, and Theatre Arts, faculty director of Civic House and the Civic Scholars Program, mentor, writer, and community leader, to name a few. Dr. Beavers specializes in American and African–American literature, poetry, jazz, and the study of writers such as August Wilson and Toni Morrison. He is a lifelong lover of literature and a thirty–one year faculty member at Penn. Street sat down with him in late July to discuss his upcoming course, “African–American Short Story in the 21st Century,” his experience teaching African–American literature at Penn, and where we can and should go from the moment of “anti–racism.”