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(05/17/24 5:00am)
For the Class of 2024, every student remembers where they were when they saw the news—the bleak headlines of the COVID–19 era were the backdrop for the beginning of their undergraduate careers. These memories play through the minds of this year’s graduating class when they reflect on their first year at Penn.
(05/10/24 5:00am)
Dear Kings Court Room 146,
(05/03/24 4:00am)
Art has been an act of resistance throughout the ongoing war in Gaza. As the war has martyred poets, scholars, and artists, there is an exigence to preserve Palestine’s rich cultural legacy of art and scholarship in order to bear testament to its existence. A rallying cry, seared in the public consciousness, came in Refaat Alareer’s poem “If I Must Die,” published after he was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. His haunting stanzas foretell a harrowing prophecy, professing “If I must die / you must live / to tell my story [...] If I must die / let it bring hope / let it be a tale.”
(05/01/24 4:00am)
Most films come and go without much notice from the movie going public. Whether because of a bungled release strategy or a lack of thought or skill by the filmmakers, it's rare, especially these days, for a movie to get people talking. Alex Garland’s Civil War doesn’t have that problem. If anything, Civil War has too many people talking.
(04/29/24 4:00am)
Margaret Atwood is one of those writers whose name follows her legacy. At 84 years old, she collects titles and prizes in the literary world. An over–productive artist, she has published over fifty books—including books of poetry, novels, nonfiction, short fiction, children's books, and graphic novels. If her ability to dive into literary genres wasn't already proof of her multitude as a writer, Margaret Atwood is also a powerhouse at captivating an audience.
(04/29/24 4:00am)
Where most park their car, here is housed a selection of cheeses; in place of old storage boxes full of clothing and knick–knacks, here instead is a display of Japanese sweet potatoes, cameo apples, and golden enoki mushrooms. Customers have made it a weekly ritual to visit this disappearing market to fulfill their every grocery need.
(04/29/24 4:00am)
You are strolling down Locust Walk listening to the sick beats of Metro Boomin when you come to a revelation: Summer is only one month away. No. Oh no. Oh, my God, my God! You scream incessantly like Mr. Wilson from The Great Gatsby. It’s so, so over. Your future is ruined forever. You regret it.
(05/17/24 5:00am)
Jo Armstrong (C '24) is the kind of person you want on your team. Jo may be known as one of the best players on Penn’s Varsity Volleyball team, but off the court she’s living out her Hannah Montana lifestyle as a seamstress, artist, and die–hard music lover. Jo is a kaleidoscope of passion, creativity, and dedication to her craft.
(04/26/24 4:00am)
The reveal of Gossip Girl’s identity during the hit 2010s show’s series finale in 2012 was a closing door on paper, an albeit disappointing end to the anonymous figure which tormented Blair Waldorf and teen viewers alike. In real life, the domination of anonymous not–so–social media, however, had only just begun. Within the year of the show’s close, Yik Yak, ASKfm, and Whisper had wriggled their way onto the iPhone 5s of middle and high school students, bringing with them a slew of controversies in schools across the nation.
(05/17/24 5:00am)
Sitting in the backseat of an Uber, static radio waves in the air, Rodrigo Veiga da Cunha (C ‘24) heard the news of the first COVID–19 cases in Brazil. Unlike our other Penn10 interviewees, Rodrigo knew a pre–COVID–19 Penn when he started college in the fall of 2019. As any student who faced the first waves of COVID–19 in college can tell you how the story goes. A week of spring break turned into a month—and suddenly childhood bedrooms were classrooms. By spring, COVID–19 was tearing across the globe.
(05/17/24 5:00am)
Fly fishing all comes down to physics: in normal fishing, the lure is weighed down with the bait, so it’s much easier to cast out into the water. But with fly fishing, all the weight is carried in the line. It’s a lot like a whip, explains David Feng (E ‘24), breaking down the mechanics of fly fishing with a preciseness usually reserved for an engineering lecture. But when it comes down to the reason for why fly fishing, there’s not much science to it. “Fly fishing is just more fun,” David laughs. “That was like the gateway drug.”
(05/17/24 5:00am)
When I first spot Jonathan Song (C ‘23), he’s deeply immersed in a tarot card reading session with his friends at Metropolitan Bakery. He eagerly explains his reading to me. In the center lies love, accompanied by the Queen of Cups hovering above. Sporting a long, platinum blond shag, the compassion between Jonathan and the ephemeral, blond queen, is an easy one. Jonathan smiles, “I think these [readings] are more shaped by what my friends know about what’s going on in my life.”
(05/17/24 5:00am)
Caroline Milgram (C ‘24) shows up to Stommons in a brown T–shirt and biker shorts. “I don’t do well in the heat,” she explains, referencing the cute dresses everyone else seems to be wearing as the weather reaches above eighty in mid–April. Her affinity for the cold is what helped her to survive the harsh Chicago winter of her first year. “I love the cold. People hated it, but I loved that it snowed every day for three weeks.” A smile plants itself on her face as she recounts those frozen days, ones that Philadelphia much more rarely sees.
(05/17/24 5:00am)
“I feel like I did everything kind of wrong and ended up in the right place,” says Kayli Mann, summing up her college experience. From making the move out of her rural town to Philadelphia to her involvement in Penn’s musical theater scene to transferring out of Wharton, Kayli has pivoted several times since the pandemic.
(05/17/24 5:00am)
During the summer of 2020, on a whim, Vicki de la Rosa (C '24) drove 20 hours with her friends from north New Jersey to Florida. Along the journey, they stopped in North Carolina and Savannah, Ga., eventually reaching her grandma’s house in Florida. They drove back after a few days.
(05/17/24 5:00am)
Luke Gooding’s (C ‘24) path to Penn was never linear. From not realizing he had gotten into Penn until two weeks after Ivy Day, to changing the focus of his studies, to finding a new community that he never expected to become a part of at Penn, Luke's has forged his own Penn path.
(05/17/24 5:00am)
Anna Dworetzky’s (C ’24) love for learning lives outside of lecture halls. It hangs on the corals of the Great Barrier Reef, scatters across sandy San Francisco beaches, and peers through snorkeling goggles in St. Croix.
(05/17/24 5:00am)
“I think what I love doing most is wasting time,” Maura Pinder (W ’24) declares as we settle into the gorgeous porch outside her home (Green Monster House, LLC). “Penn has often made me feel before that I should be streamlining my life, or somehow have the most aerodynamic college years, with the least wind resistance—and no snags.” But Maura is no stranger to a snag, or a bend in the road, or an unexpected change. After four years calling Penn her home, she’s learned to value the odd project, commitment, or hour that others might consider a waste of her time.
(04/24/24 6:53am)
Ever since I was a child, I just haven't been able to look away from Ariana Grande. Beauty and acting career aside, she has a musical magnetism that's always struck a chord with me. When I first found her, “Focus” had just come out—this song would later be called a flop by chart watchers, and Grande would ditch the entire concept in favor of what became the album Dangerous Woman. “Focus” would only be added to the end of the album’s Japanese Edition. In the years following Dangerous Woman's release, she would begin to lean deeper into honing every part of her craft, writing and co-writing hits for herself and other singers, while also shining as a producer and vocalist.
(04/24/24 6:13am)
"Fine, I write personality quizzes, I donʼt write about the Great Issues of the Day,” says Amy Dunne in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. “But I think itʼs fair to say I am a writer.”