It’s getting to be that time of the year for incoming freshmen: time to accept your housing contracts and find a roommate.
Deciding who you want to eat, sleep, and breathe next to during your freshman year is definitely not an easy task, and Penn State doesn’t offer a roommate survey like some other schools. Freshmen are stuck deciding to use apps like Facebook and TikTok to get in contact with other prospective students or go random.
To make your search just a bit easier, here is how you can get started on finding a potential roommate:
How To Find A Roommate
Penn Stateâs Schreyer Honors College held its 26th Annual Mark Luchinsky Memorial Lecture Monday night titled âChasing Space: An Astronaut s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chancesâ with Leland Melvin.
Melvin â an engineer, educator, scientist, photographer, musician, author, former NASA astronaut and former NFL wide receiver â shared his life story to inspire attendees to have a âgrowth mindsetâ and believe they can do anything.
The Mark Luchinsky Memorial Lecture Series was endowed by family and friends to honor Luchinskyâs memory through the support of a speaker who âexemplifies intellectual honesty, personal integrity and joy in learning,â according to the Schreyer Honors College website.
Image: Patrick Mansell January 12, 2021
The first Penn State Cooking Classic a series of hourlong webinars that aim to bring Penn State alumni together to learn cooking and related life skills will be held on Wednesday evenings from Jan. 20 to Feb. 10. The webinar topics will include smoking meats, coffee, healthy foods, specialty chocolate and wine.
Cooking Classic programs begin at 7 p.m. ET and include:
Wednesday, Jan. 20 Pierogies, Pies and Pigs: Fresh From the Farm Show
Wednesday, Jan. 27 Cooking with Tech: Wings & Things
Wednesday, Feb. 3 Healthy Hints
Wednesday, Feb. 10 Mallo Cups and Merlot
In addition to bringing together Penn State alumni, the webinars are intended to raise awareness of the food insecurity experiences of students across the Penn State system. Those who are not able to participate in the programs can support students by making a gift to one of the Penn State food pantries. Every $5 provides 20
Applications for Presidential Leadership Academy now open
Administrators and members of the Presidential Leadership Academy, including Penn State President Eric Barron, right, visit Washington, D.C., during a field trip in 2019.Image: Courtesy of Presidential Leadership Academy
Applications for Presidential Leadership Academy now open
January 04, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Each year, 30 first-year students at Penn State s University Park campus will be selected for membership to the Presidential Leadership Academy (PLA).
Founded with a lead gift from Edward R. and Helen S. Hintz in 2009, the PLA was established to develop critical-thinking skills and educate students to understand issues broadly. A diverse pool of members promotes consideration for the complexity and variability of world matters and current events, as well as for varying decisions and life circumstances. PLA values the idea that critical thinking on issues is not black or white, but instead, somewhere in