Missed Connections: September 20-27
(09/27/17 5:10am)
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Today marks the last day to add classes to your schedule, but Bobby Feixa (C '21) still isn't satisfied with his fall schedule. After learning that Biology 121 requires participants to buy a real white lab coat, Bobby had an existential crisis with his determined pre-med path. Although his parents, both doctors, were concerned that Bobby had a career crisis in his first month of college, they never really thought medicine was right for him. They cited a number of fainting incidents spread across many Take-Your-Kid-To-Work days in the past, paired with a general disinterest in the sciences, as their main reasons.
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Kyle Puig (C '20) is done with boat racing at Banana Leaf BYOs and losing the jacket his mom gave him before college in the bathroom floor of Allegro. Now that Kyle is a sophomore, he has prepared to leave all such shenanigans in the past. He just needs to make sure his friends are on the same page.
Thursday, August 31st, 2017. It was a normal fall activities fair for Allie Boix (W '19) who was there representing the Electric Lion Consulting Group of which she serves as President, Vice President, Client Liaison, External Communications, the General Body, and the Social Life Coordinator.
And just like that another Fling has Flung. Afraid that the rain washed away all the dirt from this weekend? Don't even worry about it, all that dirt just turned into mu(ZED)d. Here to help us all make sense of the fast paced movement of time and the ultimate end of the semester is the second Round Down: Fling Edition.
Many woke up today excited about the 20th of April. Yes, the 207th anniversary of the Governor of Caracas declaring independence from Spain. Also the date that the Chicago Cubs played their first game in what is now today Wrigley Field.
If you’ve been watching the news lately, you have probably heard that Penn Senior Amy Mateu (C’17) has developed a cure for cancer for her Senior Research Project here at Penn. In response to her accomplishment, Alexandra shared a few words via Facebook, letting people know that she had “done a thing” and inviting her 2,000 Facebook friends to “come throuuuuugh to her Nobel Prize ceremony,” which will be in Stockholm next winter. The entirely Penn community is immensely proud of the work that Mateu has done. Amy Gutmann has shared Lewis’s post with the caption: “So my little did a thing...”
You may have heard about the PECO power outages that struck the 39th block of Spruce and of Delancey during the snowstorm in early March. These outages inconvenienced a large number of people in Greek life organizations who lived on the block, as well as whoever else lives around there.
In recent years, a trend that has swept through colleges across the nation is bringing puppies to campuses to reduce stress during midterms and finals. Usually the events raise money for a good cause, and they seem to reduce stress. On the surface at least. But the painful truth is that sometimes Puppy Paloozas end up adding on more stress than they take away.
Building its resistantance to harsh conditions over millennia, the succulent is a stout and tenacious plant. They can survive extreme high and low temperatures by storing water through droughts, and they sure do look cute doing it! This list goes out to anyone who loves succulents as much as we do here at Under the Button dot com.
Happy Ash Wednesday to our Lent practicing friends! You may have come through for the pre-game of Lent, in which case you might still have a blob of ashes on your head as you read this (pro tip: do not take any sort of nap on Ash Wednesday. You will end up getting the dust -from which God made us- all over the place). Now it's time to prepare for the main fastivities! Some of you might be tempted to take Papa Francis' recent advice to fast from indifference to the suffering others. To make Lent not only a season of self-reflection and sacrifice, but also of showing love to those around you. In his words, "I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt".