Word on the Street

Freshman year was a simpler time. Your room was the size of a closet, heat was free and, most importantly, Mom and Dad couldn’t yell at you to pick up your shit.
February 11, 2009 at 11:26 pm

Oh Feb Club, you have returned once again to bring a mix of joy and social awkwardness to the lives of Penn seniors.
February 4, 2009 at 10:26 pm

What makes us choose Chipotle over Qdoba? iPods over Zunes? Christianity over Judaism? Marketing. You can try to convince yourself of the benefits of one product over another, but rest assured that a well-crafted marketing campaign had a lot to do with your ultimate decision.
January 28, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Weather.com informed me that last Friday afternoon would be “18 degrees, feels like 1.” So I bundled up in six layers and proceeded to class in College Hall, where I removed four of them in response to Facilities’ overzealousness with the classroom heaters.
January 22, 2009 at 12:08 am

A real live Ivy League-endorsed major sounded so glamorous. I woke up with a rare jolt of energy a few Wednesday mornings ago and blow-dried my hair for the first time in a while.
November 20, 2008 at 3:12 am

Welcome to Brown-town: the homebase of Penn's South Asian population. The brown — pretty evident. The town?
November 13, 2008 at 2:42 am

Now that the presidential campaign — replete with spam, robocalls and SNL skits — has begun to recede into the background, two words come to mind: now what?
November 9, 2008 at 6:19 pm

For those of you living under a rock the size of Alaska, the presidential election is five days away.
October 30, 2008 at 2:45 am

It’s been relatively easy to bash Whartonites and their ilk over the past several weeks. “Look at those fat cats on Wall Street, with their $60 million severance packages,” everyone from the crazy guy next to the Button to The New York Times has sniffed.
October 22, 2008 at 11:52 pm

The other morning, when I woke up unsure of whether I was still drunk or just hungover, I found myself confronted by an important post-coital realization: I had screwed up (pun mildly intended). Before I go any further, understand that this is not that freshman-year-what-frat-house-am-I-in hungover regret.
October 16, 2008 at 2:34 am