Campus Life

Sometimes in restaurants, when my mom wants to get the waiter’s attention, she raises her hand gingerly, ever so slightly, a gesture so demure that it’s guaranteed to go undetected by not only the waiter, but by everyone but me.
April 22, 2009 at 8:44 pm

For all the work College seniors Bobak Parang (left) and Alex Livingston (right) do on campus, they really just want to make you laugh.
April 16, 2009 at 12:31 am

Our trash is not often other people’s treasure, long forgotten and hopelessly misplaced. But flipping through the 90+ pages in each issue of FOUND is much like taking a trip down someone else’s hilarious and heartbreaking memory lane.
April 16, 2009 at 12:27 am

I rarely got in trouble as a kid. Sure, I received the occasional detention for talking in class, but those ended shortly after I began copying lines from the blackboard.
April 15, 2009 at 11:40 pm

You might think of printing as a necessary evil that costs eight cents per page, but don’t write it off just yet.
April 8, 2009 at 11:38 pm

Street: There are two types of people at Penn... Ashish Sharma: The ones who are in Wharton and then everyone else.
April 8, 2009 at 11:35 pm

For over 55 years, Philadelphia’s Photo Process Screen Manufacturing Company has been providing amateur and professional artists all of their screen printing needs.
April 8, 2009 at 11:32 pm

What’s wrong with kids today? It’s a question that has followed us from our jelly shoe-clad childhoods, to our MTV/TRL/TGIF loving adolescence, to our Not-Penn-State and definitely Not-Berkeley-circa-1960 University of Pennsylvania.
April 8, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Street: There are two types of people at Penn... Dean Tye: Kids who like Animaniacs and kids who don’t like Animaniacs.
April 1, 2009 at 11:58 pm

Jackie Backer Favorite designers: Givenchy, Acne and Proenza Schouler Favorite Philly boutiques: The Salvation Army on 21st and Market Definition of your personal style: Miss Piggy meets Woody Allen Definition of Penn style: BlackBerrys, logos and pajama pants Favorite item of clothing: My gold beatle boots or things that don’t match. If you could be in any fashionable city in the world, where would that be? Stockholm or Tokyo Veliz Perez Favorite designers: Yves Saint Lauren, Alexander McQueen, Manoush, Ralph Lauren and anything Chanel Favorite Philly boutiques: Joan Shepp, Adresse, EchoChic Definition of your personal style: Class, sass and grandmother chic Favorite item of clothing: Vintage clip-on earrings If you could be in any fashionable city in the world, where would that be? Paris — brie and red wine in hand.
April 1, 2009 at 11:52 pm

I went to Mecca last year. I skipped out on a couple of Friday classes, packed a backpack with a change of clothes, and hopped on a train to New York.
April 1, 2009 at 7:23 pm

I recently asked a friend if she knew a guy I’d met. “I think so,” she said confusedly. “Oh wait, no.
March 25, 2009 at 8:51 pm

A car sits motionless. Onlookers walk by. Drivers pass, unable to help and unable to stop. The oxidized metal burns orange under the daylight.
March 25, 2009 at 8:28 pm

Street: Tell us about your work as the director of Community Schools Student Partnerships. Blanchard Diavua: We are a community orientated student organization that tutors and mentors K-12 grade students in West Philadelphia schools after the regular school day.
March 25, 2009 at 8:25 pm

After six days of training in Maryland, one month of “freedomizing” lesson plans, and three days of Trading Spaces-esque classroom setup, I donned my uniform t-shirt and boarded the 10 Trolley West.
March 25, 2009 at 8:20 pm

I discovered at the tender age of five that I was in possession of a very vivid imagination. I never hung upside down on a jungle gym, but rather from a tight rope in the middle of a floating circus in the sky.
March 19, 2009 at 2:47 am

Originally started by two Philadelphia bike messengers frustrated with their bags, R.E.Load Baggage has grown from a service spread by word-of-mouth to a company that sells their bags in bike stores all over the country.
March 19, 2009 at 12:07 am

Want to get started on a two-wheeled life of your own? There are plenty of places right in West Philly that can help.
March 18, 2009 at 11:59 pm

Mountain Bikes There is no reason for someone to ride a mountain bike on our effectively mountain-less campus.
March 18, 2009 at 11:55 pm

Street: When you’re not on a bike, you’re most likely...? Bob Goldman: Doing yoga, or eating, or both. Street: There are two types of people at Penn.
March 18, 2009 at 11:51 pm