Word on the Street
Word on the street
Why I Left Greek Life—And Joined CAFSA
How the organization offered me an opportunity for change on Penn's campus.
by CLAIRE MEDINA
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Learning to Love Myself In The New Decade
How I took action to change my perception rather than my personality.
by BRIAN VU
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To All the Clubs I've Loved Before
Laura Jean writes to heartbreakers. I write to the ones that didn't make my resume.
by KATHARINE COCHERL
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I Don't Need Love. I Have Hookup Culture.
DFMO comes first, name comes second.
by ANONYMOUS
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On Being Nobody
My mother taught me first to love books. Then, she taught me to love quietude.
by JULIA KAFOZOFF
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Still Loving What I've Lost
While I outgrew childhood distractions, I never quite outgrew worrying.
by ISABELLA SIMONETTI
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Winning Essay: Love, Toolbox Child
Sometimes, love has calloused hands and rough edges.
by LAUREN DRAKE
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Runner Up: Miles and Days
Drifting across contents, your love tethers me to home.
by ANONYMOUS
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When Times Get Rough, Find Common Ground With Others
How our two different stories with CAPS group therapy intertwined
by MICHEL LIU and KATHLEEN GIVAN
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Weird Flex But Okay: Western Capitalist Culture Has Made Yoga Harmful
How capitalism's appropriation of yoga converted it from empowering to damaging.
by ANNA FLEMING
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Dodgeball Taught Me Everything I Need To Know About Confidence
How a summer tournament changed the way I approached my strategy to life and leadership.
by DEREK NHIEU
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Shaping My Own Judaism
How I started practicing my faith à la carte
by LEESI ISRAEL
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I'm Done Waiting Around For Someone Else To Solve The Climate Change Problem
My long–time awareness of climate change didn't make me any less ignorant of it.
by JULIA ESPOSITO
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Living with Climate Change–Induced Hopelessness
How am I supposed to focus on anything when the threat of climate change hangs over my head?
by HARSHITA GUPTA
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Finding My Will to Fight For the Planet
My journey from climate guilt to climate action
by LAYLA MURPHY
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Why the Best Ships Are Friendships
I couldn't imagine what my life would be like at Penn without club swimming, and I never plan on finding out.
by KATELYN MASSE
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After a Month, I'm Still Just A Little Bit Sick at Penn
How the common cold has become a more of a personality trait than a condition for me.
by ILYSE REISMAN
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How My Fascination with Weddings Revealed My Family's Difficult History
After years of begging for proof of my parent's wedding, I learned the harsh reality as to why there wasn't any.
by ANONYMOUS
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What Happened to Me Wasn't Like the Movies
I'm left imagining other worlds where my sexual assault experience never occurred.
by ANONYMOUS
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Why I'm Going Back to Therapy
No major life event needs to happen in order to start routinely checking up on yourself.
by ELIANA DOFT
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