Explore Philadelphia! It's an upbeat message which the University (and the DP) often sends, as if students can simply jaunt around the city of brotherly love at their slightest whim. Just a few problems: SEPTA is a pathetic excuse for public transportation, taxis can be prohibitively expensive and most students have neither the time nor the ability to walk everywhere.
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Brown kids are hippy pot smokers, Columbia kids are artsy and deep, Harvard kids are arrogant pricks, but what are Penn kids? Are we even important enough to garner any sort of stereotype, whether negative or positive? I visited four other colleges (Drexel, Brown, Yale and Princeton) to find out.
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Think of any 10 undergrads at Penn. Would you believe that four or five of them might be depressed?
According to a national survey of 13,500 college students published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005, 45 percent of undergraduates reported experiencing depression severe enough to prevent them from functioning day to day.
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Daniel Schwartz is a College sophomore from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.
2008 Woodie Awards

