It’s one against 70, and the recruiter is losing. Rather than file out, the students swarm him, ply him with resumes and cover letters, jostle his arm in hopes of a handshake.
They are many in number. They are stoic. They are strong.
They are the guardians of Penn’s campus– of our souls and ourselves.
They are bound to stand by us, in sickness and in health.
They are the support we need, not the support we deserve.
They are walls.
Though RA policies are strict, most don’t address the gray area situations advisors find themselves in. While maneuvering through a dual–role as friends and supervisors, RAs often rely more on personal assessments and spur–of–the–moment judgments than university policy to navigate their halls.
“It was basically like going to college as a fourteen-year-old.”
Sam Ax, now a Wharton sophomore, opted for the “clean-cut” look on the 2,300 mile flight from Phoenix to Boston.
In the United States, fewer than 1 out of every 1,000 people are diagnosed as “functionally deaf” before the age of eighteen. Only two of those students found their way to Penn.