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(05/01/19 5:53pm)
Nicholas T. Joyner has a knack for details. He speaks about twice as fast as anyone else and floods his sentences with exact notes on everything — and everyone — he’s encountered. He’ll stumble occasionally on the name of a professor, director or angsty Street hater, but before you have the chance to pull up Google, he’ll snap his fingers and grab the name right off the tip of his tongue.
(04/26/19 12:04am)
Samira Mehta (C ’21) was a junior in high school when she first heard about Isla Urbana, an organization dedicated to fixing the water crisis in Mexico City. Back then, she had no idea that families in Mexico were struggling to meet basic needs with little to no clean water.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
When we started working through the idea to go random with Penn 10 this year, we weren’t really sure if it was going to work. But the result was better than we could've expected. This issue could have been populated by any permutation of the thousands of seniors at Penn, and it would have still been amazing, because everyone at Penn has a meaningful story. We hope that, whatever your Penn experience, you find kernels of it represented here.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
Talking with Vickie Yin (C'19) in an empty music practice room on the fourth floor of Fisher Bennett, it’s hard not to feel zen. Empty music stands surround us. A french horn can be heard from a nearby room. Vickie sits crossed legged and poised. She tells me about the emotionally, mentally, and physically draining parts of her Penn experience, all while maintaining a calm voice and a soft smile.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
He’s a big fan of coffee.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
It’s Wednesday, and Eden Harris (E '19) is peeling an orange. She removes the rind and picks at the pith until each slice is clean, then breaks them in half to eat them. We’re talking at the Penn First (First–Generation Low–Income) Town Hall, which is far less formal than it sounds. Today, we’re making lip scrubs out of brown sugar and coconut oil. There are apples and oranges for people to eat on the table, and everyone is making idle chit–chat.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
Emmett Neyman (E '19) finds comfort in groups. He thrives when he’s being social; It’s clear from the way he lights up when he talks about tutoring other engineering students, playing on his Ultimate Frisbee team, or how he tries to fit lunches with prospective students during Quaker Days into his schedule. Even his bright purple t–shirt—branded with the “Penn Engineering” logo—links him to a broader community. For Emmett, the Engineering Quad is his home base, and he couldn’t look more comfortable sitting at a small table in the white marble halls of Towne.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
Erumuse Momoh (C’19) started playing soccer at four years old. He’d been inside his family’s house in Silver Springs, Md., kicking around a ball—maybe a soccer ball, maybe a basketball, maybe one of those toy balls for kids to play with. Somehow, the ball got away from him and he shattered four of his father’s prize vases, leaving only the tallest one—as tall as he is now—intact. His dad walked in, saw the carnage, and carted him off to Little League soccer sign ups around the corner. And, as Erumuse says, “the rest was history.”
(04/24/19 8:00am)
Aadir Khan (C '19) was going to grill some sausages, but he was too busy prepping for his next presentation at the Pentagon, and got sidetracked. This will be his third time presenting there—in the past he’s presented to various organizations within the Department of Defense about Terrorist Financing, the legality of the Enhanced Interrogation Program, and other measures being employed in engagements against ISIS. This next presentation deals with National Emergency Powers. In these presentations, Aadir acts as a representative for the Center of Ethics and Rule of Law—an institution at Penn Law committed to promoting and preserving exactly what its name implies. Aadir has been working for CERL since his sophomore year—so at this point, these Pentagon gigs are commonplace.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
“I’ve only cried tears of pure joy two times in my life: one would be getting into Wharton, and the other would be getting my McKinsey offer,” Isabella Anastasoff (W’ 19) says, raking her hands through her hair, fighting the wind. “I hate to tie my highest high...of Penn to career only,” she insists, while sighing somewhat halfheartedly. I find this admission surprising because she truly loves business.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
No ordinary person would admit they were obsessed with bridges as a kid or filled camera rolls with pictures of interesting–looking fire hydrants. But as Jackson Betz (C ‘19) tells me about his quirky childhood passions, it becomes clear that he was no ordinary kid.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
Scott MacGuidwin’s (C, W '19) cat, Luna, wakes him up in the mornings by licking his face. During the day, Luna roams the halls of Scott’s fraternity house, Sigma Nu. At night, she sleeps in his room.
(04/24/19 8:00am)
Vivian Dai (C ’19) is the kind of person who would order dessert at the bar. She sits with her legs crossed, hands moving frantically, telling a story about the time her Urban Studies professor invited his class out for drinks. Instead of alcohol, which she claims causes her to flush and a litany of blotches, she opted for a large piece of layer cake.
(04/29/19 7:55am)
Princess Aghayere (C'19) remembers waking up at 6 a.m. to teach basketball to teenage boys in Rwanda.
(05/27/19 7:00am)
When you're in a grocery store, do you notice that the avocados are too hard, or the pears are too soft? Or glance at a rack of browning bananas with resignation, knowing that they'll be too mushy to consume? Or maybe the greenish tinge tells you that they won't be ripe for another few days.
(04/17/19 4:22am)
Name: Teddy Kurkoski
(05/19/19 10:06pm)
Natasha Menon (C ’20) is a regular at the Don Memo food truck, loves to binge Brooklyn Nine–Nine, calls her family’s 10–foot–tall cactus a “pet,” and has recently conquered her fear of cats. She’s also the new president of the Undergraduate Assembly (UA). She wants all Penn students to know that she would love to meet you.
(04/18/19 6:19pm)
Every Tuesday afternoon, nine highly–motivated students and soon–to–be–published authors file into Fisher Bennett Hall.They sit in a circle with professor Jay Kirk and prepare to workshop each other's work for three hours. Rather than culminating in a final exam, this real–world class at Penn culminates in a published magazine: XFic.
(04/11/19 2:52am)
What do blood transfusions and puppets have in common? Both are on Susanna Jaramillo's (E' 19) plate this semester.
(04/10/19 5:13am)
Name: Luis Rosario