Does Microsoft support anti-Israel activity on campus?
The following photos were taken with my terrible phone camera on Penn’s campus at this event on April 3, 2012:
I can’t believe this was seven-and-a-half years ago
I distinctly remember annoyance toward Penn’s request – an annoyance I think evident in the stiffness of my writing, and my bland, generic answers. Still, I thought it might be fun to compare my expectations with how four-and-a-half years as a student at Penn actually turned out…
Another quick follow-up: BDS comes to Penn
Since many of the people who read this blog go and/or* went to Penn, I would imagine there’s a decent chance you are familiar with BDS from its stunt at Frogro or its national conference at the University of Pennsylvania. *the ‘and’ in ‘and/or’ is for myself If not, some quick background. BDS’ decision to … Read more
Why I didn’t give to Seniors for the Penn Fund
And no, the reason isn’t because I’m no longer a senior; if you thought some of my previous posts were a shtickel behind the times, please note that the events described herein go all the way back to…
The Yale 250 I didn’t submit
Wordpress does not share a tremendous amount of statistical information about who reads this blog and what they do on the site; ‘page views’ is a pretty rough metric to gauge a given post’s readership. But one useful piece of information Wordpress does…
Where I’m going to Law School – and a few words on how I made my decision
I’ll be honest: at the time, I did not give the school much thought. In my mind, there was not a great deal of doubt about where I would be come Fall. You see, I had already…
Verizon: Can you hear us now?
“How is Mordechai’s Verizon petition on Change.org doing?” is a question exactly no one is asking, but oh my god I just watched The Daily Show, and that ad played back to back to back and it has to stop. Maybe I should…
I’m gettin too old for this shit, Penn edition
As you might imagine, I’m not an enormous fan of fracking - though I am an enormous fan of fracking puns. So when Donna from Jews Against Hydrofracking asked me to raise awareness about the issue at Hillel, I agreed – even though everyone’s pretty much out the door by this time of year, and also I haven’t done this … Read more
Award-winning recipe straight from the Master Chef (me)
Some of you may have noticed today or Friday that Hillel served a special dish for lunch. An accompanying sign explained what I had learned in an email earlier last week…
My least-favorite thing about Walk Score is also my favorite thing about New York City
Now here’s the thing about Walk Score: it’s good at what it does, which is measure how long it takes you to walk to useful places from a given location. But just because a place can be walked doesn’t mean doing so makes for a pleasant experience…
