Articles by Amy Chan
05/10/18 8:00am
Senior Column by Amy Chan | Redefining greatness
My whole life, I have pictured greatness as Instagram flashes of beautiful girls fisting champagne on boats, people in fine coats promenading down Fifth Avenue. 04/16/18 1:39am
Amy Chan | A significant life might look smaller than imagined
“Well, of course I am going to live a significant life,” we all tell ourselves. The only uncertainty is how we are going to do it. 04/02/18 2:13am
Amy Chan | Dear baby Quakers, enjoy your acceptance to the fullest
I want to tell them not to give themselves so easily to others because they’ll disappoint you in the end. I want to say, prepare yourselves for the storm. 03/19/18 11:21pm
Amy Chan | Kicking and screaming into adulthood
I feel as if there is something wrong with me, especially because everyone around me seems to be moving on. And for the first time in my life, I don’t know what’s going to happen. 02/28/18 9:17pm
Amy Chan | To be a small fish in a big pond
I never realized how worthless being mediocre can make us feel. I’m sure that everyone at Penn has experienced at some point the sensation of being “less than,” of trying one’s best and still falling short. 02/20/18 8:00am
Amy Chan | Honoring those we have lost means keeping their individuality alive
To live the way someone would have wanted us to live is a grand, beautiful task, because it requires intimate knowledge of the person we lost and it acknowledges that they were more than some casualty in the circle of life. 02/03/18 8:00am
Amy Chan | Wading through a dry spell in my writing
What do we do when something we love becomes something we hate? 01/14/18 9:06pm
Amy Chan | One final reinvention before graduation
Like editing an essay, reinventing doesn’t mean that we’re erasing everything we had before. We are tweaking it, refining it, uncovering the original spark hidden in the chaotic mind. 12/12/17 8:41pm
Amy Chan | There really is no such thing as lost time
If we insist on viewing time as ours, then we have to acknowledge that we’ve never misplaced a single second; only put it somewhere it’s a little more difficult to show off on a plaque. 12/11/17 8:05pm
Group Think | What is the biggest issue facing Penn?
The fall semester is just about to end and a lot has happened that has left lasting impressions and changes on this campus. 12/06/17 10:30pm
Amy Chan | You can’t ghost everyone
You cannot always repress and ignore grievances you have with certain people. Nor can you avoid becoming close to those same people in the first place. 11/19/17 6:50pm
Group Think | How can the University Council get better attendance?
Do we need a major overhaul of the UC or does the UC just have a brand problem? 11/08/17 11:32pm
Amy Chan | Why it’s OK to leave college with few friends
College is only a small part of our lives, and the lifelong friends we do make don’t have to come from these fleeting four years. 11/05/17 10:48pm
Group Think | What's the best way to petition the administration?
In general, how can student activist groups lobby Penn's administration effectively in order to promote change? 10/25/17 11:51pm
Amy Chan | Woke is not enough
We are eager to do what is expected of us when the trend calls for it, but we don’t let that influence anything we do in real life. 10/22/17 11:16pm
Group Think | Is Penn taking too many students through Early Decision?
Is Penn filling up too much of its classes through early decision? Should there be any changes to Penn's admissions policies with regards to early decision? 10/11/17 11:56pm
Amy Chan | We won't find home in Neverland
There is a home waiting inside each and every one of us. We only have to know ourselves first to recognize it. 09/28/17 12:04am
Amy Chan | Struck by happiness
Like most people, I always believed happiness was a fleeting emotion. And, like most people, I believed that though we cannot create happiness, we can still somehow tame the slippery creature. 09/13/17 10:42pm
Amy Chan | Minority disadvantage is more complicated than just culture
If all cultures are truly not created equal, then we must examine the downside of white European culture before pointing the finger elsewhere. 09/08/17 5:37pm