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(12/07/22 5:00am)
The University of Pennsylvania is one of hundreds of colleges educating students who attended high school during the COVID–19 pandemic. These students were taking courses foundational to college instruction when their high schools pivoted to remote instruction for a period of time to protect students and staff. But online learning was inaccessible for many high school students and was not always as thorough as in–person instruction. Students could not always receive key services from schools. Even when schools returned to in–person teaching, the transition was disjointed, with higher rates of teacher and student absenteeism. This led to what many are calling “learning loss,” an issue especially felt by those who had less funding, resources, and support from their schools during remote learning. Learning loss is evident in recent declining ACT scores and anecdotal remarks from educators and students sharing the barriers and difficulties of online instruction.
(12/03/22 5:00am)
The screen opens up with beautiful shots of a wedding on the Queen Elizabeth II ship. Nat King Cole’s crooning voice on “L-O-V-E” sounds through the screen. Fireworks begin to sizzle to the edges of the frame. The credits roll: “Dennis Quaid … Natasha Richardson …”
(12/01/22 5:00am)
Dear Walden, Arielle, Alana, and Collin:
(12/20/22 5:00am)
If Evelyn Thomson weren't teaching physics at Penn right now, she might have ended up a veterinarian. “I grew up on a farm and could see that [being a vet] would be an interesting career,” says Thomson. As someone whose eyes light up at the mention of quarks, it's surprising to learn that physics wasn’t Thomson’s first calling. But growing up on a farm in Scotland, Thomson didn’t even know that becoming a groundbreaking particle physicist was a possible career choice.
(11/30/22 11:29pm)
Going to college in Philly, we're so often bombarded—on social media and IRL—with seemingly endless options for how to spend our free time. So I’m delighted to announce that Street has done the hard part for you: We’ve rounded up what we think are the can’t–miss events for the month in one convenient place. If I’ve done my job right, there’ll be something in here for every one of our readers, no matter what you like to do with your weekends.
(11/21/22 3:39am)
Many human rights were on the ballot this election season, including, but not limited to, Pennsylvanians’ legal right to smoke some weed. As politicians battled for the majority vote, employing tactics from accusatory advertisements to "Darties for Democracy," the issue of marijuana legalization was overshadowed by the salient issues of reproductive rights and high crime rates. But as the new elects are soon to be ushered into office, the future of marijuana legislation hangs in the balance.
(11/21/22 3:43am)
7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night, I found myself sitting in a sea of tortoise shell glasses frames and beanies. I have the same conversations over and over with fellow moviegoers. “How do you order?” “I don’t know it’s my first time here” “Me too.” White millennials flocked to the closest “underground” theater they could find in Philadelphia, Studio Movie Grill. Without a doubt, I was the youngest person in the theater. I sat in a sticky seat as everyone else ordered drinks because they were old enough to. Together we watched the coveted documentary, which came out in NYC and LA on Nov. 4 and was released in a small batch throughout the country on Nov. 8.
(11/27/22 9:54pm)
“I honestly think Pitch Perfect did wonders for college a cappella,” Victoria Conroy (C ’24), music director of the pop/rock a cappella group Off The Beat, told Street. “I think one of the reasons that it was so successful is that there’s nothing like college a cappella … and there’s just something about it that draws people into it.”
(11/16/22 3:04am)
As she sits on the steps outside of Fisher Fine Arts Library, basking in the sun on an abnormally warm November day, Maeve Stiles (C ‘24) says, “I think the most important thing for any athlete is to be a person first.”
(11/15/22 11:32pm)
On Nov. 4, a Friday night like any other, a party swings into motion at the heart of Penn’s campus. A flurry of students clamber up Castle’s steps, dressed to the nines. From inside, a pulsing beat can be heard. The frat house is abuzz, but not for the usual reasons.
(12/01/22 5:00am)
Supreme Kirby–in–Chief: “I’m such a tactile little chomper.”
(11/30/22 11:54pm)
For the past 365 days, I've kept a photo diary on Instagram, documenting the minutiae of everyday life—the joyful moments and the challenging ones, too. One year has amounted to dozens of sweet, lighthearted photos with friends old and new, too many photos of food captured moments before ravenous consumption, at least half a dozen outfit–of–the–day videos, and the occasional selfie of me grinning and bearing the pain of academic dread.
(11/21/22 3:45am)
If there’s one thing The White Lotus is sure to make you ponder, it’s the number of murders that can be committed at a luxury resort before anybody steps in to explore.
(01/16/23 1:00pm)
From a young age, most people are told to follow their passions when choosing a career.
(11/18/22 3:20am)
Warning: this article contains spoilers for 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.'
(12/02/22 2:00pm)
From the tiny island of Mauritius all the way across the world, Ashwarya Devason (C ‘23) has found a home in the ThaissLab, researching the psychological impacts of long COVID and aging in the gut microbiome. After taking an Academically Based Community Service course on Health Education for Incarcerated Women her first year, Ashwarya grew passionate about women’s health, leading her to pursue a triple major in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies along with Biochemistry and Neurobiology. When she’s not working on science’s next breakthrough, she’s organizing the largest national conference for first–generation, low–income students with goals of building community and inspiring future generations.
(11/17/22 5:00am)
“One thing about me is that my dad cheated on my mom and then had a baby with his 24–year–old mistress.”
(12/01/22 4:00am)
2022 has been an incredible year for film and television. Audiences were able to revisit classic characters and worlds as we soared the skies with Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and were welcomed back to dragon–filled Westeros.
(11/30/22 11:34pm)
To foster inclusive campus culture, universities need diversity at the student level, the faculty level, and in their administration. The most enriching environment possible is when students of all backgrounds feel represented by their role models. Nonetheless, Penn’s political science department—yes, the political science department—has a stark lack of diversity: only one Black professor.
(12/01/22 4:00am)
This year, it feels like the revolving door of internet trends has been coming and going faster than Julia Fox could say “Uncuht Jamz”—each with a lifespan shorter than the Miu Miu mini–skirt that took over our feeds and convinced us all that this scrap of low–waisted khaki was enough to cover up the shame of reverting to Y2K trends. 2022 online trends had us acting like Patrick Bateman taking ourselves on solo–dates in the name of self–care as if we aren’t just antisocial, lonely suckers too lazy to make a Hinge profile. Anyways, YOU GET THE POINT! These internet moments come and go and we can’t help but buy into them—because what else is going to fill the endless void in our minds reminding us that we’re like Chicken Little screaming that the world is ending and climate change is imminent? Without further ado, here are Street’s favorite internet trends of 2022.
