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Opinion


OP-ED: It’s Not Your Professor’s Fault That Your Academic Drive is Decaying like The Carrion of a Murdered Prey

You can’t blame their blabbering and the rainy weather forever


Thought Of The Day: I Want Liz Magill's Perfume

If someone reads this and knows what she uses please reach out & let me know ASAP.


Fun Party Game: Guess Where I’m From but Every Time I Make Up a Fictional South Asian Country

You begin to feel how one usually feels after a few drinks: socially and morally conscious about your racial identity. 


Recently Reunited Long Distance Couples Confirm That My Dorm Is Definitely the Best Place to Study on Campus

Why are they sharing the lingering flavors of last night’s Commons meal on the bench right outside my window?


My Professor Is Mad! I Didn’t Do the Reading Because I Was Busy Finding the Truth

Even if we understand what someone is saying, that doesn’t actually mean that we understand it. 


Have You Ever Kissed a Guy in Stouffer-Mayer? And Other Pickup Lines for People of Generally Low Social Standing

For one reason or another, you find yourself at the bottom of Penn’s social hierarchy. That’s ok. Maybe you’re ugly or from a weird state. Nothing you can really change. 


7 Tips to Rush in the Eyes of Jesus

Sinning runs rampant; intoxication, fornication, and spiritual deprivation all accompany “Meeting the Bros” or “dirty rushing.” However, there is a way to do away with this filth and rush properly – rush how Jesus would. 


I Know She Saw It: Coco Gauff Posted on Her Instagram Story But Didn’t Respond to My DM

Unbeknownst to me, that little bitch (read: fantastically successful and impressive athlete) just doesn't give a fuck about the beautiful things I have to say to her.


SAC Fair Opens New Horizons: Perhaps I Am the Perfect Candidate for Swing Dancing

Despite never taking a dance class in my life, the representatives regard my pudgy legs and deem them “perfect for our types of choreography.”


Op-Ed: I’m Going Abroad to Gregory College House

I want to explore the world! I want my mind, body, and soul to experience different environments, different cultures, different halal carts, even! 


The Mirrors in DRL Remind Me I Belong There

As I hobbled down the hallway, I took a quick glance to my left and saw my reflection.


If 1 in 5 People in the World Are Actually Chinese, Why Do I Still Have No Ethnic Friends?

My lightweight rowing team also, suspiciously, is all white. Any group of 5 that I create out of them has no Chinese people in it at all.


Ok Hypocrite: My Dad Tells Me To Study Hard for Finals After Failing His Paternity Test

He’s just a man to me. I always wondered why I looked Wasian despite having a white dad. Well now I know, this fool failed the test.


Fuck Summer Internships, I Want to Be Remembered for My Art

Internships are seasonal, art is forever.



Damn, This Lovely Spring Weather Is Making Me Reflect on the Cyclical Nature of It All

How was your spring equinox? I almost forgot to ask.


Gatekeeping the Toxic Situationship Soft-Launch Until You Slay

None of these words were in The Bible. 


I'm Done With These Halal Food Trucks, Point Me To The Haram Ones

Having Halal Food Won't Absolve You of Your Sins


Boy Gone Wild: My Licentious Spring Break in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Definitely the easiest of the two capitol stormings I have participated in in my lifetime.


Editorial: I Am Not a Veteran

not a veteran I am not a veteran I do not identify as one or more


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