Playlists
America the Selfish
Buying the right to vote isn't always an option
Election Reflection: Ian Jeong N '17
There is a long silence between you and your best friend. You don’t speak, you two don’t reach out.
Election Reflection: Olivia Nelson W'17
My parents moved to this country nearly 25 years ago. I wish I could say that being born and growing up in America has always made me feel like I belonged, but it has not.
Election Reflection: Noah Katcher W'17
I grew up next to a farm, in the middle of nowhere.
Election Reflection: Sophie Beren C'17
A friend once told me, “The minute you realize that the rest of the world doesn’t think like you, that’s when you grow.”
Caroline Guenoun W'18
I planned to watch the election results with a couple of friends while I studied for my exam the next day.
Election Reflection: Emily Johns C'17
On Wednesday morning I felt like my voice had been ripped out of me.
Election Reflection: Angela Huang C'19
At 3 AM this morning, I held one of my best friends in my arms while he sobbed, cradling his face in his hands.
Election Reflection: Orly Greenberg C'18
I have a theory about being a third child: either you’re quiet or you make yourself heard.
Election Reflection: Chris Mountanos C'20
A country built on equality and freedom has elected a President that goes against everything we believe in.
Election Reflection: Darlene Hodge Rodriguez C'20
This election filled me with so much hate and anger. My heart was heavy and the way I was feeling was incredibly unfamiliar.
Election Reflection: Jamie–Lee Josselyn
“This is what America looks like! Show me what America sounds like!”
Election Reflection: Calvary Rogers C'19
If I had a dollar for every time I asked myself if today was a reality, I wouldn’t need Penn.
Election Reflection: Caleb Chodosh C'18
Campus felt different on Wednesday. The unthinkable, unprecedented, incomprehensible happened. On Friday January 17, in the year 2017, Donald J.
Election Reflection: Irtiqa Fazili
When people can support a movement that rejects you (whatever their reasons are - social, economic, anti-establishment, whatever) it hurts.
Election Reflection: Anonymous C'17
I am a twenty-one-year-old woman and a senior in the College; last July a man whose name I don’t know raped me; last night this country knowingly elected a serial predator.
Election Reflection: Miranda Lupion C'17
This election is personal. Nervous introductions filled my first day as an intern at Embassy Moscow’s Press Office, but, by that evening, I realized I had met mostly men.
Election Reflection: Krishnan Sethumadhavan
I’m a brown man. I get selected for extra screening when I don’t shave for a few days.
Election Reflection: Nya Wilkins
I keep seeing stuff that says “Not my President” and “Not my America” but the truth is this is my America.
