Hopefully, some of you will one day think that my pieces in some way resonate with your life or provide useful advice. I personally signed up to be an Admissions’ blog writer to give people an h...
Hello, all!
My name is Olivia, and I’m excited to share my freshmen year Penn experience with you through the admissions blog. I hope to give you glimpses and insight into life at Penn by sha...
My senior year of high school I applied to 19 schools. By April, I was a mess. I thought the hardest part was behind me— writing applications. But then came the most daunting task of all: choosi...
It’s October? It’s 2017? It’s my SENIOR YEAR?? What?! Where am I??
Although I don’t feel that my time at Penn has flown by at all, it seems like just yesterday that I started writing fo...
For many, one of the most daunting sections of the Common App is deciding how to fill in that oh-so-overwhelming box that asks for your “intended major.” As an unsure seventeen year old, I app...
Freshman year, I couldn’t even look at the LGBT center. I pretended it didn’t exist. I never really needed to walk toward that side of campus anyway, but if I happened to pass by I w...