In years past, I’ve talked about the best entertainment internship you can get while you’re an undergrad. From the same people who bring you this awesome internship (the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences), there is a contest that all talented undergrad filmmakers should enter: the 32nd College Television Awards. Categories include: Animation, Children, Comedy, […]
Penn has ended a long standing (application) tradition. After several decades, Penn has now eliminated its unique admissions essay question from its application: “write page 217 of your 300 page autobiography”. Say it ain’t so! …Good thing President Amy Gutmann was still able to submit page 217 of her own 300 page autobiography to the Wall Street Journal last year! Read […]
What if you woke up one day to all your dreams coming true…but those dreams were more like nightmares? Allison Winn Scotch (C’95, Kappa Alpha Theta, Theater productions, DP) explores this concept in her 3rd novel, The One That I Want that she’s currently touring the country with. More about her book, how she got […]
Happy Earth Day everyone! Today is the last day of our DT contest where you can win a Hydros bottle. Hydros Bottle provides American consumers with access to great tasting, refreshing water on the go through a novel, fast flow filter built into reusable filtered water bottles. Their bottles are made from Tritan™, the same […]
More and more entrepreneurs are coming out of Penn these days and their products are really stellar and green. Such is the case for alumni Aakash Mathur (W’09 C’09, International Affairs Association, Intercol Director) and Jay Parekh (SEAS’09, Engineers without Borders, President). While Aakash and Jay were at Penn they developed a state of the […]
Before the ball drops tonight, I wanted to wrap up 2009 with what I am deeming my “2009 best of” list. If I could say one thing about the type of posts I did about our alumni in 2009, I would say that self-expression was very prominent this year via the spoken word, the […]