Campus Life
Highbrow Career Services: Resumé Workshop
THE ART OF THE RESUME Reading between the lines takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to resumes.
Highbrow's Declassified Back to School Survival Guide
After a day of dayging, Chipotle is not a good idea. You will wind up vomiting in front of the CVS and that one person you don’t like will MERT you.
Speaking Without Complacency
Somewhere in this country, right now, there is a white supremacist, and I am quite literally his worst nightmare.
NSO: The Breakdown
A refresher of all those events that you DEFINITELY attended your freshman year.
Street Staff's Advice to Freshmen
Here's the deal, kiddos - we learned some of these lessons the hard way. Now, you shouldn't have to.
You Definitely Need to Do These Things This Summer
Is summer even worth it if you don't everything on this list?
5 Types of Naps You Take During the Summer
Because summer naps are very different than mid-semester procrastination naps.
Hit it or Quit It: Summer on Campus
Hit it: Summer Curfews Quit it: Philly nightlife Between the mandated curfew for 9–18 year–olds in Philly’s 18th police precinct and the overabundance of summer programs adding to the already–long list of infestations in the Quad, it seems like our beloved corner of the city is shutting down.
Highbrow Can't Even: Name–Dropping
We get it, Gretchen, your dad is the inventor of Toaster Strudel. But are you realllllllllly putting your best Stuart Weitzman–clad foot forward when your fun fact at your SPEC Connaissance meeting icebreaker consists entirely of the fact that your parents donated one of the shitty study lounges in the quad? Never do you hear more “my ‘father/uncle/second–cousin/ex–boyfriend's family friend’....is ...” than during OCR.
Summer Spotlight: Cindy Lou
Cindy Lou is a rising sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences looking to major in economics and considering minors in both law and society and East Asian Studies.
Street Book Club: A Wild Sheep Chase
Book: A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami Recommended by: Cătălina Drăgoi Genre: Magical realism Synopsis that won’t give away the plot: While not necessarily one of the first works that come to mind when thinking of Haruki Murakami, his third novel is arguably the most famous in the “Trilogy of the Rat”. The plot of this relatively short book—approximately 300 pages, depending on which publisher you choose—is rather simple.
Summer Spotlight: Jisoo Kim
Rising senior Jisoo Kim has been involved with the green scene at Penn from the very beginning—and now she’s in Paraguay doing amazing, sustainable things for the future.
Penn Students Celebrate Pride
With June, better known as Pride Month, almost over, Street spoke to Thomas Calder (C'20), who is living in Philly this summer and attended some of the city's Pride celebrations the weekend of June 16.
Summer Spotlight: Alexis Masino
Alexis Masino (C'20) chose to spend two months of her summer to work in Calcutta, India, with a sex workers' collective.
Summer Spotlight: Louis Lin
Since the most recent election, Penn has gained a new representative in government other than POTUS—Louis Lin (C’20). He will serve as a Judge of Elections in Philadelphia’s 27th ward, the zone in which Penn falls, serving Division 20 as a Democrat.
Ask the Class of '21: Hanna Yang
Hanna Yang (W’21) is a polymath. She excels at painting, aced the SAT and curates the hell out of her Instagram.
