Campus Life
NSOverrated?
New Student Orientation: the best week of the academic year. Giant parties, free (albeit watered-down) booze and no nagging schoolwork to ruin all of your fun.
Everything I Wanted To Know About Internships I Learned In Sex Ed
When I was in middle school, folks from the local Christian college came into my English class to convince us not to have sex until we were married.
Take a Look, It's In a Book
Summer tends to be a time for less-than-stimulating internships and the alarmingly rapid decay of one’s ability to think critically.
Take a Look, It's In a Book
Summer tends to be a time for less-than-stimulating internships and the alarmingly rapid decay of one’s ability to think critically.
Wired Up: The iPhone 3GS
Our campus is home to what might be billed as the most important battle since good versus evil, the Phillies versus the Rays, or you versus everyone in Houston Hall at noon.
The New Sincerity
April is my favorite month of the year. Another bleak winter is washed away by daytime showers. All of us who hibernate through the winter come out, and you are able to witness campus waking up from a deep sleep.
Ego of the Week: Kerry Golds
Street: What do you think of Street this semester, now that you’re gone? Kerry Golds: Love it.
Summer Syllabus
Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics, 2006 After reading the first two paragraphs of Marisha Pessl’s debut novel, you will want to throttle the narrator.
Mom Knows Best
Sometimes in restaurants, when my mom wants to get the waiter’s attention, she raises her hand gingerly, ever so slightly, a gesture so demure that it’s guaranteed to go undetected by not only the waiter, but by everyone but me.
Ego(s) of the Week: Bobak Parang and Alex Livingston
For all the work College seniors Bobak Parang (left) and Alex Livingston (right) do on campus, they really just want to make you laugh.
Not Lost, But Found
Our trash is not often other people’s treasure, long forgotten and hopelessly misplaced. But flipping through the 90+ pages in each issue of FOUND is much like taking a trip down someone else’s hilarious and heartbreaking memory lane.
Fling's Most Wanted
I rarely got in trouble as a kid. Sure, I received the occasional detention for talking in class, but those ended shortly after I began copying lines from the blackboard.
Wunder-Wordsmiths
You might think of printing as a necessary evil that costs eight cents per page, but don’t write it off just yet.
Ego of the Week: Ashish Sharma
Street: There are two types of people at Penn... Ashish Sharma: The ones who are in Wharton and then everyone else.
Print Party
For over 55 years, Philadelphia’s Photo Process Screen Manufacturing Company has been providing amateur and professional artists all of their screen printing needs.
Smack That
What’s wrong with kids today? It’s a question that has followed us from our jelly shoe-clad childhoods, to our MTV/TRL/TGIF loving adolescence, to our Not-Penn-State and definitely Not-Berkeley-circa-1960 University of Pennsylvania.
Egos of the Week: Dean and Drew Tye
Street: There are two types of people at Penn... Dean Tye: Kids who like Animaniacs and kids who don’t like Animaniacs.
The Best Dressed of Penn
Jackie Backer Favorite designers: Givenchy, Acne and Proenza Schouler Favorite Philly boutiques: The Salvation Army on 21st and Market Definition of your personal style: Miss Piggy meets Woody Allen Definition of Penn style: BlackBerrys, logos and pajama pants Favorite item of clothing: My gold beatle boots or things that don’t match. If you could be in any fashionable city in the world, where would that be? Stockholm or Tokyo Veliz Perez Favorite designers: Yves Saint Lauren, Alexander McQueen, Manoush, Ralph Lauren and anything Chanel Favorite Philly boutiques: Joan Shepp, Adresse, EchoChic Definition of your personal style: Class, sass and grandmother chic Favorite item of clothing: Vintage clip-on earrings If you could be in any fashionable city in the world, where would that be? Paris — brie and red wine in hand.
If You Build It, Will They Come?
I went to Mecca last year. I skipped out on a couple of Friday classes, packed a backpack with a change of clothes, and hopped on a train to New York.
