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Alex | March 23, 2021
I am now a final-semester Senior. Some of my Penn friends have already graduated, and have begun full-time grown-up jobs.  Others, like me, are preparing to say goodbye to four years of l...
Ria | March 11, 2021
This semester I became a board member for the Penn Association for Gender Equity (PAGE). I’ll go into a little bit about what PAGE is, the important work it does, how it fits into the broader pi...
Olivia | March 2, 2021
Of its many traditions, Penn’s tradition of senior societies is one of the lesser-known ones. As senior year approaches, juniors have the chance to be “tapped” - selected by a current member...
Alice | November 22, 2020
There have been weeks during the pandemic during which I couldn’t tell you the difference between a Monday and a Thursday, or a Friday and a Sunday. In an attempt to keep track of the activities...
Sydney | November 10, 2020
The age-old question of “where are you going to college?” turns into a different kind of question once you are in, “why did you choose to go there?”  I discovered Penn from my gran...
Miles | October 2, 2020
When Penn closed up shop last semester and made all classes remote, no one was anticipating it – we all got through as best as we could, but there were definitely some hurdles from the suddennes...