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To Believe or Not to Believe

As many of you may know, I am currently in the process of applying to law school and studying for my LSAT. This has truly been one of the most difficult times of my life but a recent experience with an LSAT instructor took an unfortunate stab at my confidence and...

An Approach to Data Breach Reports

Being part of the Data Privacy group I wanted to put a post that will give a basic overview about the issue we found and a proposed approach. We think that your personal information is valuable. People with bad intentions can harm you if they have access to your...

Inviting Diversity Through Story

No two stories are alike. As our group seeks to enhance the fairness of applying to and attending Penn State for diverse students, we want to develop policies that reach out to and celebrate every student, no matter what his or her story is like. While we are seeking...

Reflection on the Foster-Foreman Lecture

As both a student journalist and an aspiring public servant, I’ve been very much looking forward to the College of Communication’s annual Foster-Foreman lecture. This year, the lecture, which was held in Schwab Auditorium on Oct. 28, featured journalist...

A Week Without My Laptop

  This week, on Monday night, I received an alert on my laptop that the new El Capitan OS X update was available. I had heard great things so I excitedly downloaded and started the install process right before bed. I had gone home over the weekend and forgotten...

Hello, My Name is “Nameless”

This past Friday, The GLOBE – the Schreyer Honors College Special Living Option in Simmons – held its annual “Around the World” event. Members of the SLO volunteered to open the door to their dorm room and to their heritage by...

Parseltongue Army – Update #3

In the several weeks since I posted my last update on our policy project, my group (the Parseltongue Army) and I have been working fervently to organize our project. We are working to deal with the question of fairness in the current bilingual education system in...

Stop Chasing Your Passion

Stop chasing your passion. Stop jumping major to major and job to job hoping that you will instantly fall in love with the next role you are taking on. This process will only leave you mediocre in any and all career paths which you choose. So you may be asking, what...

I Forgot the Candy

A terrible thing happened yesterday. I heard a knock on the door, and I went to answer it. I wasn’t expecting any visitors though, so I was somewhat confused. As the door swung open, I was confronted by the sight of a pretty pink princess and red power ranger. Of...

How Do You Want to be Remembered?

There’s a significant trait I’ve noticed in college students, especially those who associate themselves with more prestigious academic communities, such as honors colleges or accelerated degree programs. They all strongly identify themselves as “the...