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(05/12/21 7:50pm)
If you’ve ever seen someone strolling down Locust with a pair of purple Beats on, it’s pretty likely that it was Heta Patel (C '21). “If you ask any of my friends, it's an identifying feature of who I am,” she explains. “There've been some people I've run into who were like, ‘Oh my god, you're the purple Beats girl!’”
(05/12/21 9:33pm)
“I was like, ‘Dad can we go get Philly cheesesteaks and go home?’”
(05/12/21 9:28pm)
Faith Mamaradlo (C '21) starts our conversation off by emphasizing that at heart, she’s just a Philly girl who loves her houseplants—describing herself as “lowkey” while expressing disbelief in being featured as part of this year's Penn 10 for her many accomplishments.
(05/12/21 7:55pm)
Amanpreet Singh (C ’21) can map their Penn experience in sensory details: the polished evergreen of the trolley at the 37th Street transit portal, the gooey decadence of a chocolate and peanut butter Kiwi Yogurt sundae, and the sweetness of the purple morning glories that dot Locust Walk in the spring.
(05/12/21 9:26pm)
In his four short years at Penn, Nabeel Farooqui (E '21) has done it all. His claims to campus fame include founding and selling the startup Halo, serving as both projects chair at Hack4Impact and head of operations at PennApps, and calling himself a proud member of APALI, the Muslim Students Association (MSA), and Penn Electric Racing while completing a computer science major.
(05/12/21 7:50pm)
Erin O’Malley (C '21) has four pieces of advice for incoming students.
(04/29/21 4:00am)
The first time I really met Tamsyn Brann (re: the first time we weren’t talking about work) was 12 days after our first work conversation. I had just broken up with my ex–boyfriend for the second time in two weeks, and relatively friendless, I called her, desperate for someone to keep me company. She was on my couch within ten minutes, and we drank wine and ate popcorn and talked about distinctly Tamsyn things: David Bowie, where to buy mini skirts, and the notion that change is okay.
(04/27/21 10:50pm)
At the start of quarantine last March, Henry Platt (C ’21) decided that it was finally time to join the TikTok community. He began posting covers of songs and duets with his older brother, Broadway superstar Ben Platt, as a way of continuing his love for singing despite the limitations on performing arts caused by the pandemic. After a year of posts, Henry has amassed over 50,000 followers on TikTok.
(04/25/21 9:33pm)
Shrestha Singh (C ’12) loves her husband Eric's family, and they love her. But this love is complicated: Shrestha is the Indian American daughter of immigrants, and she married into a family of Trump supporters.
(04/13/21 4:46pm)
Name: Aarushi Pendharkar
(04/14/21 8:50pm)
Alex Poscente (W '21) is an entrepreneur, artist, and interlocutor. In the summer of 2020, she merged these talents when she founded her startup Ivy Insights, which builds teams of consultants from top universities for companies across the United States.
(04/14/21 9:06pm)
In fall 2020, amid the COVID–19 pandemic, co–presidents Kunal Abichandani (E ’22) and Avni Ahuja (E ’22) opened a chapter of Sigma Eta Pi (SEP) to form a co–ed community of diverse Penn students with a shared love for innovation and creativity. Founded in 2010, SEP has maintained a national presence in colleges across the country, including campuses like Stanford, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California at Berkley. As of now, Penn’s chapter of SEP is not technically a fraternity, but rather a colony—at least until it finishes initiating its first class in May. By the summer, it will be Penn’s first (and only) entrepreneurship fraternity.
(04/06/21 4:00am)
Name: Andrew Lam
(03/31/21 4:00am)
Sciaska Ulysse (C '21) began to visit Penn in ninth grade, when her brother was receiving treatment at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Sciaska recalls taking breaks during hospital visits, walking around, and finding herself fascinated by Penn’s campus.
(04/02/21 4:00am)
After a year of online learning, everyone is simply exhausted. It’s difficult to imagine school without Zoom fatigue, Wi–Fi crashes, and awkward breakout rooms. Yet, if there's one group of people dedicated to turning remote learning into something salvageable, it's teachers.
(03/29/21 6:29pm)
Name: Vraj Shroff
(03/26/21 4:00am)
Christopher Cherian (W ’21) describes himself as an “accidental entrepreneur.” The management and finance student never envisioned himself as a startup founder. But after realizing how deficient existing video meeting platforms are for larger events, he left the well–beaten consulting path and began working on his Forbes–featured startup, Gatherly.
(03/22/21 1:36am)
In 1997, before Fishtown was full of the hustle and bustle that we know it to be and Old City was Center City’s furthest frontier, Ellen Yin (W '87) opened Fork at 306 Market St., one of the only restaurants that stood facing the waterfront at the time. Her goal was to keep the business afloat, but over 20 years later, Fork is not only still standing, but also critically acclaimed.
(03/23/21 4:00am)
Over the past year, the COVID–19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on systemic issues that have too often been overlooked. Specifically, it's illuminated a devastating and long–standing problem: food inequity. In response to the new challenges raised by the pandemic, Step Up to the Plate has worked to combat food insecurity in Philadelphia.
(03/22/21 3:18pm)
The moment you enter the United by Blue (UBB) on Penn’s campus, you find yourself at ease. Whether you're camping out at a table to write a paper with a mug full of foamy latte by your side, or trekking to your dorm with a refreshing iced coffee, UBB's coffee is iconic in any form.