Just Can’t Get Enough Of Illadelph
The Washington Post published an article yesterday which explains how college students who go to school in Philly, stay in Philly. We aren’t quite sure why this is relevant to WaPo, which is a DC publication, but Penn got a shoutout so we’ll take it. The author says that according to a recent Philly poll, “ill” residents want recently graduated students to stay for business purposes. He also calls students who stay in their college towns “parasites”. Philly is hoping to become a parasitic city (that would be a sweet band name) and we as Penn students are the parasites. So basically what we gather from this is that if we stay in Philly after we graduate, we become a statistic. Hmm.
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By k:ra on December 15, 2010 at 11:29 am
if you stay in Philly you are an exception to years of mass exodus to NYC and DC. if you return to Philly you have seen the light. Philly is a great city and should benefit from the humongous amount of students that pass through the 88 colleges/universities in its metro-area. Parasite – perhaps but this is clearly a case of mutual symbiosis.
Why are we parasites, exactly? I was under the impression that a city would want educated people to live in it.
I think the article is saying that DC, Philly, NYC, etc are parasites taking the brains (aka the college students/grads) from middle America
you’re not quite sure why this seemed relevant to the washington post in the
washingtonpost.com > Education > College Inc. section?
are you sure you understand the concept of news? possibly not, because you tagged the post as ‘boring article’
Sometimes jokes are funny. Haha?