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Now You Must Choose Between the Overcoat and Carhartt

It's Time to Choose.


Jealous: Student Who Ran Half Marathon Can Eat Whatever They Want for Next Two Days

When polled, students reported being extremely jealous of the student's incredible accomplishment: not the fact that they ran a grueling 13.1 miles straight, but their newfound ability to eat a full pint of Ben & Jerry’s Tonight Dough guilt-free. 


To Improve Mental Health, Penn to Hang Two More Icicle Lights This Year

This will give students a staggering thirty extra seconds of exposure to the finest mental health resource out there: artificial LED light.


Happy Homecoming!! My Red, White, and Blue Sweater from The Real Real is No Match for Yours

In girl world, Homecoming (and also the Fourth of July) is the one day a year when girls can wear red, white and blue and no other girls can say anything about it. 


Op-Ed: Please Stay Out of My Line of Sight When Waiting for the Hip Thrust Machine

The bad part about someone watching you do hip thrusts is that you’re doing hip thrusts while someone is watching you.


I Lived It: Eating at a Different Halal Cart Is Basically Adultery

I don't know how I can go on right now. 


Midterm Seasonal Depression Cured by Vaguely Ethnic Frozen Meal From Grommons

I know one thing will always be there for me: my culturally diverse but also culturally sensitive but also culturally accommodating Grommons frozen meal exchange section. 


Everyone on Campus Was Terrified by My Costume. I Was Poverty for Halloween.

I had to look up what "poverty" was in the dictionary. I wad appalled when I read the definition. 


Breaking: My Cat Costume Was So Good That When I Got MERTed They Took Me to Penn Vet

I don't think it helped that I was meowing instead of speaking... 


Under the Button Officially Endorses Whichever Candidate You Were Planning on Voting For

Our endorsement comes at a critical time for democracy. We need to choose progress over stagnation; people over profits; stability over chaos; profits over people; we need to choose [INAUDIBLE MUTTERING] to be the next President of the United States.


Reducing Foot Traffic One Step at a Time: I’m Suplexing Everyone Who Stops Walking in Front of Me on Locust

Finally I can put several years of elementary school martial arts classes to good use.


Eavesdropping Gone Wrong: Woman on Train is Actually Super Boring

If you're going to talk in the quiet car at least make it about something cool like insider trading. 


The Daily Pennsylvanian Replaces All Staff Writers With Infinite Monkeys on Infinite Typewriters

What happens when they do inevitably write the complete works of Shakespeare?



“I’m Excited to Announce” and Other LinkedIn Humble Brags That Scream “I Have a Micropenis”

“I’m excited to announce…” Translation: “Please validate me.”


Amy Wax Fired After Tweeting Something Vaguely Pro-Palestine

We’ll miss you, you crazy kid



‘I Haven’t Played the New York Times Games Today’ and Other Things To Think About While Your Girlfriend Breaks up With You

Oh, woe is me! Boohoo! It’s not that deep, bro. You were only with her for 5 years. Get over it.


Flu Shot Horror Story: My Nurse Was in SDT

I have a tattoo behind my ear and I’m still scared of needles and do you believe in false dichotomies?


I Used My Platinum AMEX to Swipe Into Huntsman and It Worked

Who needs a Penn card when you have a credit card?!!


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