Campus Life

5 things you shouldn't do after you graduate Or, The List of Things That Prove College Is An Alternate Reality 1.
March 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

For serious students, it's all about striving to be head of the class. For the rest of us, it's all about dreaming of the head of the class: that distinguished professor or hot TA who you are "forced" to stare at during the semester.
February 22, 2007 at 12:00 am

There are 16 days until Spring Break, and you are fat. That leaves you five days for bingeing, two days to "work out" and "eat healthy," and nine days to crash diet so that you can trawl the beaches without being accidentally harpooned by a nearsighted sailor.
February 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

There are 16 days until Spring Break, and you are fat. That leaves you five days for bingeing, two days to "work out" and "eat healthy," and nine days to crash diet so that you can trawl the beaches without being accidentally harpooned by a nearsighted sailor.
February 15, 2007 at 12:00 am

9:00 a.m.: Wake up. Admire the thread count. 9:30: Enter shower. 9:40: Wet badger-hair shaving brush with warm water, apply lather to face. 10:15: Check [Stanford] Encyclopedia [of Philosophy] Word of the Day.
February 8, 2007 at 12:00 am

Coming to Penn from Australia by way of the elite Institut d'‚tudes politiques, junior Damien Bright makes a memorable impression.
February 8, 2007 at 12:00 am

Calling me pretentious? Oh, aren't you original! Now let us pretend for a minute that you're not hurling uninformed vitriol at me to compensate for your own inadequacy and failure, and give it to me straight, friend: how can I just be an unassuming regular Joe? I could watch the boob tube, yeah?
February 8, 2007 at 12:00 am

engineering library The Engineering Library keeps it real. This library is not spacious, but there is a lot of personal space and the entire facility is well lit.
February 1, 2007 at 12:00 am

Fisher Fine Arts is like Van Pelt's well-behaved, socially awkward, yet pretty older sister. With beautifully carved red stone and intricate stained glass windows, its architecture puts all other Penn buildings to shame.
February 1, 2007 at 12:00 am

The Biomedical Library is a quiet getaway from the populated floors of Van Pelt. This secluded spot is located on Hamilton Walk, cleverly concealed behind the lower Quadrangle.
February 1, 2007 at 12:00 am

Most law schools evaluate a combination of GPA and LSAT scores to admit their students. Penn, however, appears to use sex appeal as their deciding factor, resulting in a law library chock full of Gregory Pecks and Reese Witherspoons.
February 1, 2007 at 12:00 am

Tucked away in the Schattner Center at 40th and Spruce, the Dental Library seems remote from undergraduate life.
February 1, 2007 at 12:00 am

More than its ego, senior English major Kelly Landers is the library's id. We attempted to learn the truth about this fashionista's symbiotic relationship with Van Pelt. Street: So you spend a lot of time at Van Pelt. Kelly Landers: It's been noticed by quite a few.
February 1, 2007 at 12:00 am

I steal a lot of computers -- it's just what I do. And you know what, I'm really good at it. My stats speak for themselves: single-day high, 42; career total, a fucking shit load... trust me.
January 25, 2007 at 12:00 am

Ironically, video games - the iconic pastime of slackers and couch potatoes - have now incorporated the exact thing from which they first strived to escape: physical activity.
January 25, 2007 at 12:00 am

We asked Engineering junior Tal Raviv, creator of the celebrated College House videos for prospective students and holder of the Guinness Book of World Record's title for the largest ball of packing tape, ¨Qu‚ tal? Did you take last semester off?
January 25, 2007 at 12:00 am

Jeffers, president of the BIG-C. Aside from Panhel and the Interfraternity Council, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs oversees the Bicultural Inter-Greek Council (BIG-C), which is the umbrella organization for Penn's historically African-American, Latino/Latina, and Asian Greek letter organizations. Explain your sweatshirt. I am a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. which is one of 13 groups under BIG-C.
January 18, 2007 at 12:00 am

Street: So you had a pretty sweet summer internship. How'd you score it? EM: Like, everyone thinks it's 'cause my dad's Street's stockbroker.
December 7, 2006 at 12:00 am

Ok, so this is a column about the cool new college drug. Need a byline. Meryl Street, orchid connoisseur/addict snorts with Street?
December 7, 2006 at 12:00 am

Street: You're the head of The WALK project. How did you get invovled? Lea Artis: I'm co-president of DZine 2 Show, the fashion society on campus.
November 30, 2006 at 12:00 am