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Students studying in Paris recount horror of terrorist attacks

(11/18/15 7:27am)

Ayan Aidid was meandering through the streets of Prague after dinner with friends. Luis Ferre Sadurni was in a Spanish bar in Paris. Gabriela Vidal-Irizarry was having dinner with her aunt. Peter Herbst was on his way home from a day of solitary museum visits. Hannah Fagin was making her way to her friend’s apartment. I was in the middle of an interview in a cramped AirBnB in Brussels.







Emily Hoeven | Going global

(11/03/15 4:59am)

As someone who grew up in California, I thought I would be something of a novelty at an East Coast university. But as I introduced myself to different people during my first weeks at Penn, I was overwhelmed by the variety of responses I got when I asked where they were from: “I grew up in Dubai.” “I went to high school in Egypt.” “Boarding school in London.” “South Korea.” “Panama.” Suddenly, California didn’t seem exotic — and it sure didn’t feel cool to tell people that I’d lived in the same suburb for 18 years. I felt this pressing need to globalize myself, to make up in college all the time I’d lost in suburbia.