Word on the Street

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

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

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

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

For students who develop a Big Three inferiority complex as soon as acceptance letters roll in, the desire to perpetuate a “Work hard, play harder” Social Ivy image seems contradictory.
February 25, 2009 at 11:57 pm

As I write this, there are several other things I could, or rather should, be doing. I should, for example, be writing my 10-page paper (D-Day minus 2), doing my 200 pages of reading (D-Day minus 1) or studying for my midterm (D-Day minus 4). What I should not be doing is watching reruns of Full House or taking multiple naps.
February 18, 2009 at 10:43 pm

Freshman year was a simpler time. Your room was the size of a closet, heat was free and, most importantly, Mom and Dad couldn’t yell at you to pick up your shit.
February 11, 2009 at 11:26 pm

Oh Feb Club, you have returned once again to bring a mix of joy and social awkwardness to the lives of Penn seniors.
February 4, 2009 at 10:26 pm

What makes us choose Chipotle over Qdoba? iPods over Zunes? Christianity over Judaism? Marketing. You can try to convince yourself of the benefits of one product over another, but rest assured that a well-crafted marketing campaign had a lot to do with your ultimate decision.
January 28, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Weather.com informed me that last Friday afternoon would be “18 degrees, feels like 1.” So I bundled up in six layers and proceeded to class in College Hall, where I removed four of them in response to Facilities’ overzealousness with the classroom heaters.
January 22, 2009 at 12:08 am

A real live Ivy League-endorsed major sounded so glamorous. I woke up with a rare jolt of energy a few Wednesday mornings ago and blow-dried my hair for the first time in a while.
November 20, 2008 at 3:12 am

Welcome to Brown-town: the homebase of Penn's South Asian population. The brown — pretty evident. The town?
November 13, 2008 at 2:42 am

Now that the presidential campaign — replete with spam, robocalls and SNL skits — has begun to recede into the background, two words come to mind: now what?
November 9, 2008 at 6:19 pm

For those of you living under a rock the size of Alaska, the presidential election is five days away.
October 30, 2008 at 2:45 am

It’s been relatively easy to bash Whartonites and their ilk over the past several weeks. “Look at those fat cats on Wall Street, with their $60 million severance packages,” everyone from the crazy guy next to the Button to The New York Times has sniffed.
October 22, 2008 at 11:52 pm

The other morning, when I woke up unsure of whether I was still drunk or just hungover, I found myself confronted by an important post-coital realization: I had screwed up (pun mildly intended). Before I go any further, understand that this is not that freshman-year-what-frat-house-am-I-in hungover regret.
October 16, 2008 at 2:34 am