Penn Is Penn Again

Did you all see how, on Facebook, our school is now called Penn? It's not everywhere - it still says "UPenn" under Education - but it does seem to indicate a shift away from the school being known as "UPenn" in the cyber world.

Maybe they named the website "upenn.edu" under the assumption the whole internet thing wouldn't take off. Like, whatever intern the school assigned to pick out the url figured everyone else in the world had the same VHS collection of cute cat tapes that he did, so why would anyone feel the need to spend any time online? UPenn, Penn, Penn State - doesn't matter, no one's going to look at it anyway. A fair opinion at the time.

But the internet became huge, the nickname stuck, and the school hates it. There are no official references made to the school using "UPenn," the name isn't on apparel, and it's not anywhere on the website other than the url bar. It's unclear whether they pushed for this Facebook change or if this was a Zuckerberg-driven decision, but the shift back to just Penn is clearly in place.

Plus, www.penn.edu totally takes you to the school's website, so let's just change the email addresses to @penn.edu and be done with it. Actually, let's be done with it as soon as we're all out of school - it would be such a pain to have to tell everyone our email address changed.