{"A Penn education provides a liberal arts and sciences foundation across multiple disciplines with a practical emphasis in one of four undergraduate schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Nursing, or the Wharton School."}
At Penn, I intend to focus primarily on science. I also look forward to utilizing the fine arts facilities that surpass those available in high school. In addition to the “foundational approaches” requirements, my course load will include the classes required to apply to medical school. Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Ethics have become primary interests of mine, so medicine seems like the natural route...
My mussed brown pigtails hung loosely in their scrunchies as my mouth rested slightly agape, strawberry yogurt dribbling down my chin. I would sit there on the distressed leather couch transfixed by the television; undisturbed by the gore on the screen.
My mother used to worry that I watched too much National Geographic...
Penn will allow me to study not just engineering courses but also courses in the liberal arts fields such as business, linguistics, and writing. Starting when I was a toddler, my parents continuously found me in precarious situations. As soon as the dishwasher opened, I would be lying on my back, nose almost touching the door, trying to figure out how it worked...
One Point Seven Seconds
Fists clenched tightly, shaking, I sat on the curb and waited.
∆X = ½at2 + V1t
30ft = ½(0)t2 + 17ft/sect
30ft = 17ft/sect
t = 1.7 sec
I thought about how I had finally messed up, and I had messed up badly. Waiting for my parents, I could only think of the physics of the situation...
Newton North High School and Brookline High School have been mortal foes for well over 100 years. The rivalry has bred many packed sports games, and too many fights. At Newton North our football team sets out during pre-season with one goal. It’s not to win the state championship, or even to have a winning season. No, it’s to beat Brookline on Thanksgiving...
I spent the month of July this past summer at the David Rittenhouse Laboratories in a Penn Summer Discovery Experimental Physics Academy. It was an eye-opening experience. I had been on college campuses before, but I had never spent a lengthy period of time on one and certainly had I never taken a course...
Last July, I found the similitude of teaching and learning as I was placed in a Taiwanese classroom to teach English to 19 small kids. With little experience, my first few days were filled with complaints about the “confusing teacher” and obstinate refusals to my requests. Only after the adventurous first week did I finally discover why I was really there...
“So, who’s your favorite composer?”I looked up nervously into a pair of bright, inquisitive brown eyes framed by large Ray-Bans and was drawn into this mysterious girl’s chipper smile, wondering why in the world she would ask such a question to me. I had never met her in my life, yet here she was, sitting next to me on the first day of summer camp and assuming I was some kind of classical music fanatic...
Having a sister who struggles with a learning disability wasn’t easy to understand at first. I wondered why we seemed to have so much in common yet learned so differently. Why did she need to have the same concepts repeated over and over again to grasp the idea? Trying to answer this question sparked my interest in child development...
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