And The Wharton Student's Heart Grew Three Sizes That Day
April 19, 2009 at 6:33 pm
While we were getting punch-drunk and sunburnt in the Quad, Penn made weekend appearances in not one but two newspapers. We already told you about the Inky's beef with shoutouts, and now we bring you the New York Times's story on how Wharton seniors are coping with the post-apocalyptic economy. The article comes complete with the individual-example-of-economic-hardship-as-allegory lede ("Riana Paige, an undergraduate senior at the Wharton School of Business, had a high-paying internship at JPMorgan Chase last summer...") and the obligatory "We're standing around on Locust Walk because we're Penn students" photo illustrations. But what else do we learn?
“A lot of my peers, we’re exploring things that we used to not even think of as an option,” Ms. Levy said. “A finance major who was minoring in music was suddenly looking into opening a jazz club. All of a sudden, I saw that a lot of Wharton people were interesting.”Gosh, aside from a split infinitive in the beginning, that's a pretty astute observation. Wharton students interesting -- who would've ever thunk it? Oh wait, nevermind, the article ends with the dude getting a job and instantly transforming back into a soulless zombie. Oh well, fun while it lasted.
P.S. There's a video too.