Abhiram Juvvadi

I remember the first photograph I published for The Daily Pennsylvanian: avocados at ACME. This was October 2022, and I had just completed my first photo shift without actually knowing how to use the camera (the drone doesn’t count). Derek, the editor during the shift, patiently guided me through Adobe Photoshop and captioning. This picture wasn’t the last — I’d go on to rack up over 1,000 photo credits over three years — but it was the first credit I could call my own.

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Universities are pretty darn good at teaching us who matters. We learn the credentials of our professors before the first day of class. We memorize the personal hobbies of the banker at a Goldman Sachs information session. We know where our professors were educated. We know the hometowns, majors, and full names of classmates that we likely won’t see after college. Why? Because they probably sat a few rows in front of us in ECON 0100 or ACCT 1010.