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Faresi Alfaresi


Articles

Flu Shot Horror Story: My Nurse Was in SDT

I have a tattoo behind my ear and I’m still scared of needles and do you believe in false dichotomies?


Crazy Thought: Let’s Install Urinal Dividers At Smokes

I am fighting for YOUR rights to not be metaphorically —or literally I’m not judging— smacked with dicks of varying sizes in your peripheral vision. 


Overheard At Penn: “Poor People Are Poor for a Reason” & 10 Other Statements

I swear these are all genuinely overheard.


OP-ED: I’m Glad There’s No Quegger for Gay Men

You'd All Be Too Messy


Op-Ed: Penn Should Accept More Qatari Money

It's kinda like printing more money but not bad.


Stop Asking Me About Voting It’s Been 3 Years How Do You Not Know I’m Not American Please Stop

Say it to me now: Faresi is not American, he can't vote, let's not harass him about voting



I Feel The Rush: Penn Barbell Club Replaces Ammonia Sniffing Salts with Poppers

A twist, a sniff, and a flush of red.


Insider Scoop: Amy Wax Called Me a Filthy Arab Immigrant & Put Me in a Chokehold

Tears ran down my cheeks, yet my mind mustered no thought other than the fact that her breath smelled distinctly of freshly consumed Law-School-provided white claws.


Open Letter to DP Editors: Who Cares? Spell Pharaoh.

‘you’re so hot! You’re the most professional girl in the world!’ 


Fucking Psycho… My Professor (Small Seminar Class) Didn’t Ask About My Winter Break

I put in so much work into my ice breaker and they literally don’t care if I die or not.


Erm… What Are We Supposed to Do At This Cafe • Bar • Restaurant • General Store?

Some things are more beautiful when they are left as ideas.


Finals Season Again! Here’s Why You Should Join Me In Self-Immolating Outside of Van Pelt:

THIS IS FACETIOUS I PROMISE THIS IS IN JEST THIS IS FROLICSOME ALL IS WELL


Food For Thought: Huntsman Kinda Looks like The Panopticon

From the GSRs, the Wharton students who book them can see every non-Wharton student, but these second-class citizens will never know whether or not they are being watched.



Stupid Bitch: '82 Alumna Recollects Boring Memories of Her Youth At the Peak of Our Biopond Synesthesia

She was colors and light. She was clouds and trees. She was the water my mother drank while we were in her womb. We are twins, could you have guessed?


UTB Guide: How to Wait For Your Friends Outside Harnwell Without Looking Like a Hooker

Read a poem. Write a poem. Make the mistake of starting something new.


OP-ED: The Itty Bitty Keypad At Harnwell Seems Rather Bourgeois

Perhaps whatever plastic surgery the keypad of this turnstile got is what fixed all of its problems, and maybe that can be a metaphor for me as well – who will be the plastic surgeon to my heart? 


Cougar Much? Girl (19, Junior) Goes to Date Night With 22 Year Old Freshman

I mean...what a fucking creep, right?


Insider’s Scoop: What They’re Not Telling You About UTB’s Writer Strike

The majority of what you heard about this writing publication is true: half of us are gay, half of us are going into consulting, all of us are an NYC 8 at least.


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