Sophomore Says Hi to All Her Acquaintances at Darty, Can Finally Leave

As NSO rolls around, so do all those Facebook darty invites. Of course, Carolina Cortes (C ’21), because she isn’t rude, replied ‘going’ to all of them: to panthers, to gorillas, and, yes, even to scorpions. However, Cortes isn’t necessarily excited to hit any of the parties. “I’m not really the going out type,” she explains, “but I feel like I need to show face, you know?”

So, in good Quaker fashion, Cortes threw on her body suit, Nike Air Force sneakers, and her Penn face and hit the scene. And show face she did. Cortes asked all the right questions to all the right people.

“I was really happy that Carolina asked where I was living this semester,” shared her freshman year NSO friend, Brooke Evans, whom Cortes will never visit. In addition to finding out Evans was living in Domus, Cortes learned that Matt Lewis was going to Pool Party, Olivia Nguyen was living in the Radian, and Vanessa Robinson worked at a hedge fund this summer. How neat! 

“It’s really great to know that all of my acquaintances summers were ‘good’ and ‘so fun,’” Cortes reported. But now that she has given all of them an awkward, beer-in-hand side hug, Cortes can finally head home after being in a crowded backyard for a slick three-and-a-half hours. 

Yes, Cortes might have ended the day dehydrated and with sun poisoning, but what’s important is that everyone now remembers that she exists. Well, at least until the next darty.