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Highbrow's Guide to Social Climbing
Highbrow's Guide to Social Climbing: Tips for the Superficially Inclined. It’s not easy to get to the top, but Highbrow has the inside scoop on how to fake it until you make it.
Overheards 1.29.2015
Girl on Locust: You 100% just farted into the phone!
The Round Up 1.22.2015
New year, new Highbrow—watch out baby Quakes, we are no longer on social probation. Your vacation tans will fade as quickly as your New Years resolutions, and Highbrow will be here to document all of your debauchery.
Tweet of the Week: 12.16.2014
Congrats to last week's winner: Xandria James @XandriaJames "Shut up. You're 22 and you're still talking about bat mitzvah money as a source of income." Honestly nothing surprises me anymore #Penn
Tweet of the Week: 12.9.2014
Congrats to last week's winner: teresa dula @terens55: "The scene is real, and it's now, and it's right outside huntsman smoking a cigarette"
Dress Code
Don’t just dress to impress; dress to dazzle! It’s my party, so let me tell you what to wear. Obviously, I need to be the hottest, but you can be lukewarm!
Dear Diary
As you know, this Saturday is my Super Sweet 16.
Open Letter From Upset Parents
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Saperstein, We are writing to you as friends, neighbors and upset parents.
Tweet of the Week: 12.2.2014
Congrats to last week's winner: Spencer Winson! @pency23: I sincerely hope people get my sense of humor and understand my selfies are all about self promotion and narcissism.
When Justice is Shot
“A system cannot fail those who it was never meant to protect.” -W. E. B. DuBois
True Life: I Hate Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is the ultimate culmination of fall. It comes just after the official beginning of winter and it rings in the holiday season.
The Downtown Boycott
There are benefits to ditching the scene and finding fulfilling activities outside the realm of bouncers and bartenders.
Overheards 11.20.2014
Sophomore boy: Between going to class and working out I don’t really have time for anything else.
Tweet of the Week: 11.18.2014
Congrats to last week's winner: reilly martin @reilly_grace: I stole toilet paper from a bistro last night bc our airbnb in Paris doesn't have any- so yeah, I know a little bit about "the struggle."
What's Your Insta Identity?
If you don’t have an Instagram bio, we assume you don’t have a personality. Highbrow pulled some examples from Penn students to see how they present themselves.
Word on the Street: Closeted Pride
The summer before coming to Penn, I would have considered myself halfway out of the closet.
The Round Up 11.13.2014
To all who have tried to label Penn as the #1 party school or the most insecure Ivy: bitch, you don’t know my life.
