Lilian Zhang | STEM is sweeping through Penn, but the humanities deserve a chance too

Don't let the soaring number of STEM majors dissuade you from pursuing art history or philosophy.

Lilian Zhang | I’m tired of justifying why I don’t live in the Quad

I was immediately disappointed when placed into Gregory, a college dorm no one knew the location of — a place that received no frat party fliers under the doors. 

Lilian Zhang | China’s education system is notoriously rigid, but is the U.S. any better?

I came to the United States so that I would avoid falling victim to an education system based on standardized and rigid deliverance of knowledge.

Lilian Zhang | From Beijing to Philadelphia, gentrification follows me across the globe

The “Old Beijing” collapsed along with antique city walls and hundred-year-old residences, replaced by skyscrapers and malls that stood majestically yet indifferently in the midst of their downfall.