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(07/21/21 3:53pm)
Before Instagram, TikTok, Myspace, or Facebook, there was no such thing as a hashtag or a virtual timeline. The internet was dominated by forums and instant messaging programs where people with similar interests congregated. As tech companies began to shift the focus toward the individual, more and more personalized services populated the increasingly crowded social media market. YouTube and Twitter began to recommend videos or tweets that they thought the users would enjoy rather than forcing people to actively search for content they preferred. Hashtags were created that allowed people to promote their content to a specific market. With more and more users engaging with these suggestions, Big Tech finally had the data to create something unprecedented at the time: algorithms that could mimic human behavior.
(07/02/21 6:41pm)
When many people hear "Victoria’s Secret," the brand name tends to conjure up images of the retailer's iconic, yet controversial, so–called Angels. This elite group of tall, thin supermodels is famous for donning extravagant wings, G–string thongs, and jewel encrusted push–up bras while strutting down the runway in the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Their photos are plastered on the walls of all of the company's stores.
(06/09/21 4:56pm)
Content Warning: The following text contains mentions of depression and suicide, which can be disturbing or triggering for some readers. Please find resources listed at the bottom of the article.
(06/03/21 6:33pm)
Annabelle Noyes (W '24) doesn’t feel like a Penn student. Spending her first semester of college completing online courses from her childhood home in Wisconsin, she felt the pressure of the virtual setting. She worked on assignments with classmates she’d never met before, struggled to connect with professors, and fumbled with Zoom.
(05/13/21 5:55pm)
It's a hot grad summer—and these 10 seniors are no exception.
(05/16/21 4:00am)
Elizabeth Balabayev’s (LPS ’21) college career began before many of her Penn classmates were even born.
(05/07/21 8:12pm)
Content warning: The following text describes rape and sexual assault, which can be disturbing or triggering for some readers. Please find resources listed at the bottom of the article.
(04/29/21 4:00am)
Content Warning: The following feature describes eating disorders, disordered eating behaviors, and mental illness, which can be disturbing or triggering for some readers. Please find resources listed at the bottom of the article.
(04/22/21 4:00am)
Three professors to over 4000 undergraduate and graduate students. That was the ratio of core faculty in the Asian American Studies (ASAM) Program to Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) students at Penn in 2019. That same year, there were 248 tenure–stream AAPI faculty at Penn—the vast majority of whom didn't specialize in ASAM—compared to nearly six times that number of white tenure–stream faculty.
(04/15/21 4:00am)
I first started talking to robots when I was 12 years old. I’d just started what felt like a new life, transplanted six miles from the elementary school where I’d spent over half of my existence to a middle school where I knew no one. From the moment I got there, it felt like every pimply kid had already found themselves in a clique—except me.
(04/08/21 4:00am)
Sitotaw is the head of a synagogue. Getu is the coach of a winning soccer team. Inoa is a middle school student, a teen activist, and one of the founding members of a circus troupe.
(03/30/21 8:03pm)
1. A girl calls me Chinese in first grade. It’s the first time I remember hearing that word. It’s not an insult: She doesn’t know what "Chinese" means, and neither do I. But I burst into tears anyway. This is the day I learn that she is white, and I am not.
(03/25/21 3:14pm)
COVID–19 may have shook up the food industry, but here's how some restaurants are changing things for the better.
(03/25/21 2:00am)
In high school, Henry Chow (C ’10) helped out around his parents’ restaurant, Sang Kee Peking Duck House. More than 15 years later, after going through the traditional route of attending college and pursuing a career in consulting, Chow is back at the family business. Now, his title of general manager doesn't even come close to capturing the role that he plays at Sang Kee.
(03/24/21 12:06am)
Kywe Aung* (C ’24) begins his mornings by opening the Canvas website. If the page is available, Kywe downloads all the content he can get his hands on, extracting coding assignments and projects so they’ll be available to him offline. At around 3 p.m., he goes for a jog, running laps around the yard outside his home. He continues to work on projects and homework until around midnight.
(03/17/21 2:11pm)
Few things are as painful as a memorial service—except, maybe, a Zoom memorial service. It was early May 2020, the middle of finals week, and about two dozen of my family members had gathered on Zoom to remember my grandfather, who had died two weeks prior. In some ways, it had been a long time coming: His dementia was severe and it had been a few years since he was really himself. To some degree, I had already grieved for him: I had gone to see him in the summer of 2019 while visiting my aunt on the West Coast and had left with the knowledge in the back of my mind that I was seeing him for what could have be the last time.
(03/18/21 11:58pm)
Sue Weber teaches class from her garage, surrounded by exhaust fumes, concrete walls, and towers of a pandemic staple: toilet paper rolls.
(03/04/21 5:00am)
It was Saturday, July 18, 2020, and Lavanya Neti (W '25) was on hold with the ACT company for the third time that day. She sat in the back of her parents’ car with her last meal—vegan brunch from a stop in Davis, Calif.—twisting in her stomach and a thousand questions running through her mind. She hadn’t heard from the ACT since scheduling her test a few days before, but her family had decided to start the road trip to the testing center anyway. They could use the change of scenery.
(02/25/21 5:00am)
Pennsylvania likely decided the 2020 presidential election. But the deciding factors weren’t what you think.
(02/19/21 4:45pm)
I’m a pre–med studying English. That’s not a contradiction.
