The ubiquitous office supplies store understands that life should be simple. It’s even been the central mantra of their famous easy button marketing campaign. Though no such button exists to write cover letters for you — if only! — Staples has made the job/internship search just a little bit easier. Through June 13, participating stores are offering a “Career Stimulation Special”: you can get 20 resumes and 40 business cards for free! Take advantage, because we’re fairly sure resume paper makes up for any inadequacies.
Apparently the march didn’t end at College Hall for some Hey Day-ers this past Friday. A search of Flickr reveals that a few rising Penn seniors were so excited — or terrified — about having one year left that they jumped into the Schuylkill from the Walnut Street Bridge. May their willingness to take the plunge hold strong in the face of their graduation next May!
This eye-catching sign is posted throughout the fine arts building. And it works — we’ve witnessed people stopping and reading the posters. We’re just glad the guys who work in the windowless basement of Addams can find the fun in it all!
It’s a spoof on the Gift of the Magi scenario: Philadelphia’s Barney’s CO-OP has finally opened… just as the recession is making money tight, of course. Nevertheless, it’s a huge boon to Philly fashionistas, who no longer have to trek to King of Prussia to find a decent department store. And it sure is pretty to look at! Here are the deets:
CO-OP PHILADELPHIA
10 Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Mon – Sat: 10am – 8pm
Sun: 11am – 6pm
Come one, come all and be prepared to wait for a long time: it’s free cone day at Ben & Jerry’s! Our own campus shop is participating in the ice cream extravaganza, so enjoy the only day of the year when the line to enter Ben & Jerry’s is longer than the one into Smoke’s. Happy scooping!
You almost have to have a sense of humor to be in finance nowadays. As evidenced by this email, Wharton finance professor Luke Taylor–who our tipster noted is only 30 and thus understands the “Fling spirit”–certainly has just that.
A few students have told me they’re concerned about being too drunk to attend/comprehend lecture tomorrow. I, too, am concerned. I’ve decided not to cancel lecture. However, I encourage you to attend my 9am or 10:30am section if you think you’ll be unable to walk a straight line by 1:30pm. Also, I think lecture is being videotaped tomorrow because of a religious holiday, although I’m not sure which holiday this is exactly.
Best regards,
Luke Taylor
Assistant Professor
Department of Finance
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Call us suckers, but we love when professors act in-the-know!
Enjoying southern dishes (like a collard green and mushroom frittata; a Surry sausage and mushroom crepe; and stone-ground grits) in a converted Victorian home, you’d think you were somewhere in Dixie. But no: It’s just Sunday at this lovely University City BYOB.
Even though the description is a little thin, we’re delighted for Philly to get the recognition. But we know that students love their brunch, so have at it in the comments. Did Bon Appetit hit or miss the mark?
Though SPEC may only have official plans for Friday and Saturday, we all know this whole week is about Spring Fling. Which–who are we fooling?–really just means this week is about consuming copious amount of alcohol. But some of you might feel guilty taking that sixth shot of Absolut. Or maybe feel selfish for joining in the hedonism.
If only there were a way to satisfy both your thirst and your conscience.
Penn is sneaky. A tipster forwarded us a lengthy email sent tonight to all students living in university housing, warning that spring fling bag checks will begin tomorrow. Of course, the email was sent at 10 PM — in other words, after liquor stores are closed.
Since many Spring Fling events are held inside the Quad, no one may enter the Quad with any alcohol containers, sealed or unsealed, starting Friday, April 3. During official Fling hours, Friday & Saturday, 11am – 6pm, ONLY empty BEVERAGE CONTAINERS that are open will be allowed into the Quad.
All bags coming into the Quad will be checked from Friday, April 3 at 8am through Sunday, April 19 at 10am. To keep lines moving, please have your book bags and any other packages ready for inspection before entering, along with your PennCard or other required ID. Carts were banned from use at the Quad as of March 17th, so anyone trying to enter or exit the Quad with a cart will be prohibited from doing so.
Anyone bringing alcohol into other (non-Quad) College Houses and Sansom Place residences should be prepared, as always, to show ID for proof of age.
But if you’re a Quad resident who delayed in stocking up, don’t give up hope: the best way to sneak in alcohol may be shipping it to yourself, but you can always try joining a tour group, taping bottles to your legs and putting it in take-out bags. Because we saw all of that have success freshman year. We wish you luck.
We knew it was coming. Signs warning us of this impending doom began to appear at campus registers a few weeks ago. And today reality hits us: seniors, it is the last day we can use the wondrous privilege that is bursar.
We learned about it as mere freshmen; we were told it was a convenient way to charge iPods to our unsuspecting parents. Having it taken away almost thrusts us more into the ugly reality of the real world than graduation will on May 18. Out with the old, in with the new: it’s no coincidence that today high school seniors will learn of their acceptance into Penn.
But there’s still time! Before midnight strikes on this Cinderella function, bursar one last Penn sweatshirt from the bookstore. Or three. Because if there’s one Penn taught us, it’s that we should make the most of every opportunity.
As the video above tells you, Penn’s own Fashion Week begins today. We’ll forgive the over-the-top looks of unhappiness the models have because they did manage to get both Domenico De Sole AND Penn alum Tory Burch to grace our campus this week. Both are impressive catches by themselves, let alone together. And it doesn’t hurt that a third of the audience at Domenico De Sole’s address will probably be wearing Tory Burch flats. Check out the week’s schedule after the jump.
It was, like, the best month ever at Penn: Homecoming and Halloween + the Phillies and Obama winning. Sure, the economy sucked then too, but we had HOPE. Not to mention that May and the stress that the job/internship hunt provokes seemed far from imminent. (Five weeks! Five weeks!)
Though we didn’t snag the Prez as our commencement speaker this year, a little bit of that epic month is coming to campus tomorrow (Wednesday): the Phillies World Series Trophy will be in Houston Hall, beginning at 3 PM!
Get there early, because word is that SPEC will have baseball nosh like hot dogs, pretzels and popcorn to celebrate the trophy’s visit.
Lloyd Dobler played a boom box outside Diane Court’s window. Mr. Darcy saved the Bennets from embarrassment by getting Lydia properly married. And now Gmail is going great lengths to show it cares for us: we can finally undo sent emails.
There’s a catch, of course: you only have 5 seconds after sending an email to undo it, though blog chatter claims a 10-second option is on the way. But 5 seconds is still plenty of time to act on the instant regret that comes from accidentally sending an incriminating email. Turn on this genius feature through Gmail Labs (look for the beaker icon in the upper right corner).
Though you had us at Gchat, dear Gmail, we’ve fallen in love all over again.
I once spoke with ?uestlove at 30th Street Station; he asked me for the time. Though I can’t say I’ve been curious about his life after that glorious moment passed, maybe you are. And now you can read his mind–well, 140-characters of it at a time–by following the Twitter of the Roots drummer. According to Philebrity, his handle is qoolquest.
