Are We There Yet?

This week we discuss the latest protest at Penn in the broader context of political protest and censorship. "Protests shut down CIA Director's talk at Penn" - http://www.thedp.com/article/2016/04/protests-shut-down-cia-director-john-brennan-talk

This week we took and discussed four different personality tests: Myers Briggs - http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp Big Five - http://www.truity.com/personality-test/ Enneagram - https://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test.php Pottermore - https://www.pottermore.com

With the Oscars coming up this Sunday, February 28, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on the way we think about movies.

Who owns information? How has social media influenced the way we interact with other people? And in the Age of the Internet, can we control the flow of information?

We're starting off the semester with something all college students can relate to -- textbooks, and how expensive they are. We also talk about how online education has changed how people learn.

An interview with Sarah Simon, the current president of the Government and Politics Association at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss the political climate at Penn, how people engage or do not engage with politics, and the connection between politics and identity. Learn more about Penn GPA here: www.penngpa.org

The original unedited audio clips from students at Yale and Mizzou talking about what they have taken away from recent events on their campuses. Clips of these were included in Episode 2. 0:04 - Gabrielle Gresge (Mizzou) 2:06 - Jalyn Henderson (Mizzou) 2:31 - Sharon Li (Yale) 10:06 - Jared Michaud (Yale)

Our follow up episode on diversity ponders the topic in a more general sense, and how it relates to a college campus.

This second episode examines recent activism at Yale and Mizzou as a lens to consider the broader topic of racial diversity. 1:08 - Jalyn Henderson (Mizzou) 1:36 - Sharon Li (Yale) 4:24 - Gabrielle Gresge (Mizzou) 5:20 - Jared Michaud (Yale)

This first episode from our series on discovery and identity focuses on forming new relationships and how these new friendships come to define us.