L's Taken
7
"Thank you for applying but..." Jobs
- Facebook (twice!)
- Airbnb (twice!)
- Microsoft
- Scholastic (temporarily)
2
Clubs that "weren't a good fit"
- Access Engineering (the first time)
- Hack For Impact
3
Things I Swore I'd Finish But Never Did
- Netflix series with more than 4 seasons
- My bookshelf of books at Penn
- Idea for an app
3
Everyday L's of Life
- Susceptible to ripping pants
- Falling on the bridge on Locust
- Breaking both wrists on the same day
On the Bright Side
3
Things I've Learned That Will Still Matter in 10 Years
- The fact that I can overcome anything that is thrown at me if I give myself time
- The importance of 8 hours of sleep
- The ability to better control the ways that things affect my happiness
4
Books I've Read for Fun
- Salt Fat Acid Heat
- Saga comic book series
- Everything I Never Told You
- Between the World and Me
4
Memories I Made While I Wasn't Studying/Working
- Made a snowman during reading days
- Hitchhiked over a highway to avoid cops then got picked up by a stranger to Villanova when they won the basketball game freshman year
- Going to a random stranger's wedding
- Was in the front row of Chance the Rapper's performance freshman year
3
Unconventional Skills
- Really good at memorizing lyrics to songs
- Unbeatable at video games that require you to mash buttons
- Insane whistler
5
Leaps of Faith
- Joining new clubs that would eventually be my communities at Penn
- Switching my major from Materials Science Engineering to Computer Science
- Leaving a toxic relationship freshman year
- Living by myself in New York for the summer especially as I had never lived anywhere besides Philly and New Jersey
- Coming to Penn at all as the only person from my high school to get into an Ivy League