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Why First-Time Marathon Runners Face More Injuries Than Experienced Runners
Completing a marathon is a dream for many runners. Whether it's for fitness, personal achievement, or participation in a major running event, marathon training requires dedication and consistency. However, first-time runners often experience more injuries than experienced athletes. The reason is not a lack of motivation but a lack of preparation, recovery, and understanding of how the body adapts to long-distance running.
GLP1s in Dermatology: Emerging Evidence and Unanswered Questions
GLP-1 receptor agonists, known primarily for their use among individuals with obesity, overweight, and diabetes, are increasingly being explored for their potential role in dermatology.1,2,3 The HCPLive editorial team spoke with 3 clinicians working in dermatology: Neal Bhatia, MD, the former vice president of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), Shanthi Narla, MD, an assistant professor of dermatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin known for her research on the intersection of...
Why Young Cricketers Should Never Ignore Hand and Wrist Pain
Cricket is one of the most popular sports among young athletes, requiring a combination of skill, coordination, strength, and endurance. Whether it's batting, bowling, fielding, or wicketkeeping, the hands and wrists play a crucial role in almost every aspect of the game. As young cricketers work hard to improve their performance, they often experience occasional aches and discomfort. While some soreness may be normal after intense practice sessions, persistent pain should never be ignored.
The National Psoriasis Foundation Primer on GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Psoriasis : A Review
The National Psoriasis Foundation Primer on GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Psoriasis: A Review Abstract Importance Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated disease associated with cardiovascular, metabolic, musculoskeletal, psychiatric, hepatic, kidney, and pulmonary comorbidities.
Strategies to Diversify the Medical Student Training Pipeline Into Cardiology:
JACC Journals › JACC › Archives › Just Accepted Fellows-in-Training & Early Career Section J Am Coll Cardiol. .
Penn Perspectives | Victor Fabian Arellano, Rising Sophomore
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Yesterday, Victor told us about his experiences applying to college and his transition to Penn. Today, read about his reflections on his academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. 1.Tell us a bit about your academic path. What do you enjoy studying here and what are you inspired to do in the future? I love studying sociology and economics.
Penn Perspectives | Victor Fabian Arellano, Rising Sophomore
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Today, Victor tells us about his experiences applying to college and his transition to Penn. Tomorrow, read about his reflections on his academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. Victor Fabian Arellano; Undeclared (but thinking of doing a double major in Sociology and Economics); Hayward, California I was a part of the Questbridge national scholar program but I wasn’t matched.
Penn Perspectives | Alex Wong: Tying Biology, Economics, and the Liberal Arts Together
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Yesterday, Alex told us about his experiences applying to college and his transition to Penn. Today, read about his reflections on his academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. I came into Penn thinking I was going to study biology, and potentially pursue medicine or research as career options.
Penn Perspectives | Alex Wong: Tying Biology, Economics, and the Liberal Arts Together
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Yesterday, Alex told us about his experiences applying to college and his transition to Penn. Today, read about his reflections on his academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. My name is Alex Wong, and I’m from Palo Alto, CA. I am a rising sophomore in the College interested in studying Biology and Economics. Applying to college was a stressful yet insightful process.
Penn Perspectives | Corbin Ray, Economics Major
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Yesterday, Corbin told us about his experiences applying to college and his transition to Penn. Today, read about his reflections on his academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. I actually came here as a Biology major looking to do cancer research. I figured out pretty early on that I wasn’t too keen on that path and switched to Economics while still pursuing the pre-med track.
Penn Perspectives | Corbin Ray, Economics Major
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Today, Corbin tells us about his experiences applying to college and his transition to Penn. Tomorrow, read about his reflections on his academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. My name is Corbin Ray and I’m a rising junior pursuing a B.A. in Economics. I am originally from Dallas, Texas, home of the best football team in America. I never really intended to go to Penn.
Penn Perspectives | Lucy Li, Vagelos MLS Scholar
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Yesterday, Lucy told us about her experiences applying to college and her transition to Penn. Today, read about her reflections on her academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. So I came to Penn as a Vagelos MLS student planning on majoring in biochemistry.
Penn Perspectives| Lucy Li, Vagelos MLS Scholar
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Today, Lucy tells us about her experiences applying to college and her transition to Penn. Tomorrow, read about her reflections on her academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. So I applied to mostly California and some east coast schools. Of the schools that I got in I chose Penn because it offered me a unique opportunity to come to the east coast and be in a metropolitan environment.
Penn Perspectives | Colin Henderson, President of the Daily Pennsylvanian
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Yesterday, Colin told us about his experiences applying to college and his transition to Penn. Today, read about his reflections on his academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. I’m a pretty hyper-curious kid – there isn’t really one particular subject area which I prefer to study over another. This made it pretty difficult for me to pick a single area of study heading into college.
Penn Perspectives | Colin Henderson, President of the Daily Pennsylvanian
In the next few posts called Penn Perspectives, you’ll hear from students across campus. Today, Colin tells us about his experiences applying to college and his transition to Penn. Tomorrow, read about his reflections on his academic path, the Penn community, and our campus. My name is Colin Henderson, and I’m a rising senior in Wharton concentrating in finance and marketing. I am from a small town a couple hours north of Philly called Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
Part 3 | My thoughts on basketball: Where Sports and Academics Meet
In part three of this series on basketball, I write about Joel Embiid for my journalism course taken in Spring 2016. This is the actual assignment – covering a topic of your choice in Philly – that I turned in. Notice that I violated a cardinal rule of journalism: not attributing a few sources, which was not my intent.
Part 2 | My thoughts on basketball: Top 10 List of My Favorite NBA Players
10. Ricky Rubio…this guys can pass the rock…have you seen his court vision? Behind-the-back, through the legs, off-the-backboard, threading the needle, full-court, cross-court…he’s also a great on-the-ball defender whose feet move well…he has terrific composure on the court…has a high basketball IQ…and though he can’t make jumpers to save his life, his value remains high 9. Salah Mehji… story time…I was flying to Penn this summer…and guess who went through security with me?
Part 1 | My thoughts on basketball: playing at Pottruck - aka Penn’s Gym
In the summer, I’ve found myself walking through the doors and onto the courts of Pottruck a few times a week, which certainly surpasses the number of times I played basketball all of last semester. On the court, I most closely profile as a smart glue guy like the Grizzlies’ Tony Allen (he’s one of my favorite players). We’re both terrible shooters, long-armed and -legged, and dogged defenders.
Using A Creative Tool to Study for the SAT and ACT Writing and Language Sections
If you’re a high school student studying for the SAT or ACT using Kaplan or Princeton guides, taking a prep course, or perusing CollegeBoard’s website looking for testing resources, take a short break and check out the blog After Deadline. After Deadline, a blog run by The New York Times, “examines questions of grammar, usage, and style encountered by writers and editors of The Times.” It was recently suspended after having been managed by Philip B.
Good Friends, Good Food
A few weeks ago, my transfer buddies walked over to Tampoco, a casual Korean and Japanese restaurant on 44th St. and Spruce St. Without further ado, let me introduce them and the food we enjoyed over dinner. On the front left is Scott, a senior and Italian Studies major, whose sly sense of humor catches everyone off-guard. He’s an expert on all things Italy, classical music, and religion. Behind Scott is Konhee, a junior and economics and visual studies dual major.
Financial Aid, Loans, and the Fine Print
Below you will find in granular detail the nature of financial aid at Penn. Below that you will find the most recent financial data that Penn has submitted to the National Center of Education Statistics. A key takeaway from this data is that while financial aid defrays significant costs for many Penn students, one quarter to one third of undergraduates borrow students loans.
2015 Engineering Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2013 Engineering Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2014 Engineering Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2014 CAS Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2013 CAS Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2015 CAS Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2015 Nursing Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2013 Nursing Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2014 Nursing Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2013 Penn Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2014 Penn Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
2015 Penn Career Plans Survey
Samip Sheth Loosely translated in Gujarati, Samip means “near to you.” This blog works along that meaning as I reflect on, illuminate, and share my experiences and my home at Penn. But my journey to campus has not been traditional: In the past three years, peregrinations have taken me from Dallas to Austin to Omaha to Philadelphia. My upbringing, however, remained constant. I was born and raised in Dallas, TX, growing up with a spunky brother three years my younger and doting parents.
The Value of a Penn Education
This post serves as a roadmap and table of contents for a series of posts about the post-graduation plans of Penn students. For every Elon Musk, Elizabeth Banks, and Ezra Pound, thousands of graduates leverage a Penn education to achieve their post-graduation goals and ambitions.
Where I Can Learn More about Penn?
Thanks for reading the Admissions Blog! I hope you find our content insightful if not useful. Here are several other media sources that I frequently visit to learn about the great things happening on campus.
Student Groups at Penn and Elsewhere
Many colleges call attention to the number of active student groups on their campuses. Chances are you’ll find this number—bolded, highlighted, and accentuated in any other way—in their promotional materials. It’s a good marketing strategy, I admit, because we tend to gravitate to a single number that represents a bigger idea.
2015-16: The Year of Discovery
As a large, somewhat decentralized institution, Penn annually promotes and sponsors an academic theme University-wide. This year we’re celebrating the Year of Discovery. For students, the theme comes to light in several ways. During New Student Orientation, incoming freshman participate in the Penn Reading Project (PRP) by discussing a book related to the annual theme. Last August, students and professors engaged with Langston Hughes’ The Big Sea.
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Around this time I begin to miss Texas—not because I want to eat some “authentic Tex-Mex” food, or root for a winning sports team—sorry Philadelphia—or even see my family. (Just kidding about the last one) I miss my state because, well, its weather is just perfect right now. Until recently I’d taken for granted blue skies, cool 70 degree days, and weeks of sunshine in the month of February. Now it’s clear to me that winter extends into—and in some years, well past—December. But let me digress.
Making an Informed College Decision-by the numbers. Part II.
Every four years, the Council of Undergraduate Deans conducts the Senior Survey. Seniors evaluate the following aspects of Penn: post-graduation plans, evaluations of their undergraduate education and services provided by the college, values, and participation in activities. Responses from Penn seniors are compared to other selected private institutions: Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, URochester, and WashU.
Shining a Spotlight on the Underrepresented in Higher Education
Last fall I read about the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success in the Philadelphia Inquirer. 80 institutions, including Penn, form the Coalition, which aims to increase access to higher education for all high school students, particularly those from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. I see the Coalition as a step in the right direction.
Making an Informed College Decision-by the numbers
Every four years, the Council of Undergraduate Deans conducts the Enrolled Student Survey. Undergrads evaluate the following aspects of Penn: academic environment, faculty and advisors, intellectual gains and progress, student employment, health and well-being, and student demographics. Our responses are compared to other selected private institutions: Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, URochester, and WashU.
What Can You Expect from Your Penn Interview?
Well, along the lines of a conversation, an informal meeting, a way to genuinely share your interests and learn about Penn. But for many, interviewing causes stress and anxiety. Some of it might be naturally induced—just think about meeting a new person and wanting to make a good first impression. Some of it, though, might be eliminated by preparing to an extent.
Tips and Tricks: Free Textbooks!
Penn’s library system offers incredible access to materials and resources that enable students to excel in the classroom. Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the library’s collection is housed in 18 buildings across campus. But let’s say that a particular book is not in Penn’s collection. Fortunately, Penn uses three online direct borrowing services that expand the reach of our libraries.
Guest Blog: Marcia Martínez-Helfman on Penn’s Evolving Campus
In a guest blog, Marcia Martínez-Helfman, CW ’75 and Law ’84, shares her perspective on the evolution of campus as a Penn graduate and parent. Currently working as Penn’s Associate Ombudsman, Dr. Martínez-Helfman has an outlook that nearly spans four decades.
A Conversation with Penn First
In 2014, current Penn seniors Sam Trinh and Jackie Chow, along with several friends, founded Penn First. Their organization advocates for the needs of first-generation and low-income college students. Below, Sam and Jackie share their backgrounds, college experiences, and organization.
College Essay Resources | Penn Admissions Blog
It’s October 19th. If you’re an early-action or -decision applicant, your college admissions to-do list might look like the following: Given that you’ve completed items 1-3, let’s work on item 4. A few resources and notes that might guide you in the writing process are below. I’ve written about Dean’s Furda’s page before and want to briefly refer to it again. Of particular note are his 5I’s and 4’C. Insight from several undergraduate admissions deans and students is shared here.
The Pope, John Lennon, and Our Backyard
Last month, my friends and I took part in Pope Francis’ historic visit to Philly. We joined over one million people from all walks of life in Center City Philadelphia to attend mass. Deep in the throngs of people and festivity, we recalled John Lennon’s famous song, “Imagine.” The mass, while rooted in religion, served as a great example of humanity: our coming together, sharing the world, and living as one.
5 Useful Webpages to Read before Writing Penn’s Supplemental Essay
Applying to Penn, or any other school, requires prospective students to put their research skills to use. The following websites should facilitate that process and ground a supplemental essay in terms of content, focus, and language. For more thoughts on the Common Application and supplemental essays, please visit Dean Furda’s 217 Blog. Applying to Penn requires a prospective student to stay connected and informed.
Lights, Camera, Action: The Journey Continues
As I prepare for the upcoming year, I want to share a few ideas that I’ll entertain on the blog. That notion naturally leads me to welcome you—student, parent, faculty, alum, friend, family, and all others—to it. The journey I’ve embarked on continues as I enter junior year. By its end, I hope to create a dialogue that connects this blog, you the reader, and Penn.
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