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(02/19/18 2:11pm)
I have a major problem: I love social media. I waste so much time on social media each day, and it’s a nasty habit. It causes me to miss real interactions and instead focus with on ones that are not so real, and have no true value. Facebook is my preferred vice of choice because I get so sucked into articles and videos—before the Super Bowl I probably watched over an hour of Eagles videos a day. I needed a cleanse, a break: to show myself, and all other social media addicts out there, that there is more to life than being artificially connected to other people.
(02/07/18 3:07am)
Philadelphia Eagles fans have always had faith. We're used to heartbreak. But a tough end to one season has wiped the smiles off our faces. We collect ourselves. “There’s always next year,” we say. Each new coach or Quarterback raised our hopes. “This is the year,” we say every pre–season, only to be left empty–handed come February. Last year, the Birds ended the season with 7 wins and 9 losses, finishing last in their division. But as the 2017–18 season began, here we were once again, promising each other “This is our year.” And this time, we were right.
(02/07/18 3:49am)
“This store is weird,” says a longtime FroGro worker, rearranging a shelf full of Pampers. It gets weirder at four in the morning.
(02/08/18 5:37am)
Many consider 2017 to be the Year of the Woman. Last January, thousands mobilized across the country in response to the misogyny they saw embodied in their new President. As the year continued, women opened up about their experiences with sexual assault when the #MeToo movement came to the forefront. As awards season continues through the early months of this year, celebrating the film industry’s greatest achievements is not enough: the conversation addressing its problematic parts is far from over.
(02/08/18 5:51am)
There is a Youtube Live station with a constant 10,000–person viewership of a looped video of an anime girl sitting at a desk, looking tired and staring at a whole stack of work to her right as music plays in the background. The live chat is a constant stream of 4:20 blazers, depressed 14 year–olds looking for solace in other depressed 14 year–olds, and music heads from all across the globe. It’s a journey back through the ether of internet chat rooms, but the project is a new venture by Chillhop Music, a promoter of different artists that all make the same kind of transient synth–wave instrumentals. This music is called Lo–Fi Hip Hop and it has already overtaken your taste in music without you even knowing it.
(02/08/18 4:34am)
Meme rap, or joke rap, has always been a kind of parody of conventional rap. You hear it and you can tell it’s rap, but something is always off. Sometimes there are strange beats or sounds, sometimes the lyrics are completely contrary to what you would expect from the genre, or sometimes the artist just throws in punch line after punch line. Whatever the case may be, it’s purpose is to make people laugh.
(01/31/18 7:47am)
I remember the exact moment that I first got to experience the genuine devotion that Philly fans have for their teams. It was Wednesday, October 21st, 2009, when the Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 10–4 to go back to the World Series. I was there at the game, sitting down the third base line about 20 or so rows up from the field. This was the closest I had ever sat to the field—typically I'd be in the nosebleed seats. Going to a playoff game was usually out of the question, as tickets were expensive. Lucky for me, the Phillies team doctor was friendly with my mom, and, knowing how big my family was on Philadelphia sports, he’d offered her two tickets to the game.
(01/30/18 12:24pm)
It’s a running joke just how preprofessional Penn is. The number of times we make fun of OCR and the memes we make of Goldman Sachs and McKinsey are almost countless. Being a bioengineering major, it would be hypocritical of me to say that being career–oriented is a negative quality. But in such an intense environment, there’s something to be said for the students who major in something different than their long–term goal. Visual studies majors who plan on going to med school may be hard to come by at Penn, but they are definitely a group to be admired.
(01/22/18 2:00pm)
Every winter, hundreds of freshman girls zip up their coats and rush the eight Panhellenic sororities at Penn. Isabella Simonetti (C '21), who is also a columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian, was one of these freshmen. She wrote about her week of sorority rush for Street.
(01/19/18 7:05pm)
As someone living with pretty intense anxiety, I have years of experience teaching myself to keep calm—mostly via trial and error. Though not everyone has anxiety like I do, no one is safe from stress, especially with the never–ending onslaught of midterms. So, what do I do when everything around me is moving too quickly?
(01/16/18 12:48am)
Some slight melodrama ensued last week as Lorde became the latest artist to boycott Israel, announcing her decision to cancel her upcoming concert in Tel Aviv this summer in a written statement.
(01/16/18 12:18am)
My fantasy team had a great season. Some of my players had a bit of a shaky start, but I had some pretty good team members—my team even included the MVP. But instead of a championship ring, the MVP got an engagement ring, and instead of a trip to Disneyland, a rose. Yes, I’m talking about The Bachelor.
(01/17/18 2:52am)
Ever since my freshman year, Shoutouts have been one of my favorite parts of Street (Ed. note: bye bye Shoutouts). Every time the biannual issue comes out, I pore through it, hoping to find a juicy reference to decipher or a Shoutout I wrote to friends. Last fall, before I could even open the Shoutouts issue for myself, my friends bombarded me with texts about a Shoutout that they thought was about me. It read: “To my hot blonde Econ TA: It would be pareto optimal for us to hook up.”
