Word on the Street
Word on the street
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
Word on the street
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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Penn Was My Pipe Dream, So Why Didn't I Want To Leave Home?
There is a home for me in a city I had never visited, in a school where I didn’t think I belonged.
by MEHEK BOPARAI
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How I Learned To Love My Name
What started out as hatred for the name on my birth certificate grew into an untapped appreciation of who I am.
by AAKRUTI GANESHAN
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My Battle with My Racial Identity was More of a War
But it was my fight to win, and there was never any room for your microaggressions.
by NAJMA DAYIB
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How a Passion Project Turned into an Identity Crisis
My love for making YouTube videos made me question whether I was really happy with myself.
by MORGAN JONES
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Finding Faith on My Own Terms
How my definition of spirituality has evolved throughout my life.
by SOPHIE BURKHOLDER
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'Madam President' is Not Just a Dream Anymore
Why I have a feeling the 2020 presidential election is going to be different.
by CHELSEY ZHU
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I Went Back to High School, and It Felt Like I Was Still at Penn
Penn Face and unhealthy competition start way before most of us step foot on campus.
by CHELSEY ZHU
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Ghosted by Goat Boy
What do you do when a dreamy Tinder date suddenly stops replying?
by CLAIRE PINCE
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Coming Out Into the Closet
Sometimes the lack of a label is more freeing.
by LAKEISHA HENLEY
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The Letters I've Started to Send
A sample of letters I've written to my friends, colleagues, and mentors about how Penn impacts us all
by LAURA BECK
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