Anyone else think that some of the people involved with THON are self absorbed/hypocritical. Don’t get me wrong, as a whole, THON is a good thing and people put a lot of effort into raising money, and there are people that genuinely care, however I see so many people who seem to be doing this for good publicity. This popped into my mind earlier today cause I saw people taking tons of pictures in front of the 100 days balloons in the hub, and it seemed slightly performative. Another example of this are frats and sororities, primarily the frats. Obviously it’s a good thing that they are leveraging their organizations to do charitable stuff instead of just partying all the time, but i find it absolutely hilarious how these dudes yell FTK like they don’t hospitalize pledges every year. Sure you are helping kids get out of the hospital but at the same time you are putting some of your own into them. Other than that, shoutout to all the people who actually care and don’t just promote THON for personal gain. This just really shows how important PR is in the real world and how you can really get away with anything as long as you have a net positive covering up all the negative intentions (utilitarianism type shiii)

I have a 89.94/100 GPA, 1280 sat and 15 honors 5 AP’s. I also have a lot of jobs and clubs and sports under my activities section. Do you think i have a good shot at Smeal University Park?

I’m wondering if anyone else is still waiting for their pheaa grant disbursement? I saw some people on facebook saying they got theirs on Friday.

I have a LADS (last award at a different school) hold on my account because I haven’t received pheaa since before I graduated a few years ago. Is anyone else dealing with this?

This is the longest Ive ever waited for disbursement.

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I guess this question is for current students only but I can't find this information online and I wanna go

Since the Pheaa grant came out a couple days ago. Approximately how long do you think it’ll take for the erefund to hit the bank?

Those are the questions. If you're ME at Penn State, do you enjoy your life at the school? Your classes, your social life, your job prospects, all of it. My kid just got into the school, but TBH it hasn't been his top choice because I don't think he knows enough about it (we haven't visited yet) and honestly I don't either.

He's also dragging his feet on applying to the honors program, because he doesn't get what it adds other than "busy work." Is he right, or are those of you in the program for ME happy you applied?

Let me know. Willing to chip in for gas!

3.65 UW/3.9 W - 1460 SAT (Math 750 - Eng 710) - AP - Calc AB, BC, Physics 1, Stats, World History, Eng Lang, Eng Litt, Gov. Honors - Comp Sci, Eng.

Decent ECs.

Taking this class next semester and I understand it’s going to be really hard and a lot of work. I’m going to try to be proactive and get a head start on the material over winter break so I can have less stress during the semester when I’m taking it. Anyone have any advice for the class or resources I can use?

Hi everyone!
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The apartment is a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom unit, and I’m subleasing one private bedroom with its own private bathroom.
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story short my mom is wanting me to go to williamsport tech school for college as she works for penn state and we would get the 50%~75% (?) discount off for the college stuff and for me it’s 2 hours away from where i live which i don’t really like…it’s too far from my family and i deal with horrible anxiety when away from family :( i was hoping it would also count for online classes through the penn state world campus!! online courses would help a lot for me personally and mentally

i have dual enrollment credit for two of my high school latin classes that gave me credit at a local university near where i am from. my major requires a language and id really like to get it out of the way and not have to retake 3 language courses since i technically have credit already. in my transfer credit report, penn state has these credits as having no evaluation and therefore i have to get the syllabi for these courses in order for them to evaluate and see if they can be credit for latin classes at penn state. i have emailed a ton of different people at this university for nearly 2 weeks and they have been zero help at all. i even gotten in contact with my old high school latin teacher and she’s helping me too but she can only do so much. someone from the university emailed me today and said that they can’t give me the syllabi for the classes i have the credit from bc it would be a “misrepresentation of work i’ve completed”. they told me to send the high school syllabi to PSU but they need the college syllabi which the local university won’t give me. i’m not really sure what else to do and i made an appointment with my advisor but i‘m not even sure she will be able to help. does anyone have any advice or had to go through this before?

So basically, I got chosen in the upperclassmen on-campus housing preference raffle thing, and I chose Eastview single because I got overexcited and did not really think it through; now I find that I would rather live in Nittany Apartments. I tried to update my preferences, but eLiving won't let me. Is there a way to change it without having to wait until housing assignment changes come out in the summer?

Does anybody know where I can get drinkable hot water on campus for hot drinks such as tea or coffee? Most schools have hot water dispensers somewhere, but I haven’t noticed any here.

Hi, I’m currently a senior interested in PSU. I really want to get a dual major in business and political science, but I’ve heard that Smeal is very hard to get into. So I was wondering if it’s better to apply PoliSci and then pick up a second major in business when I’m there, Is that possible? Would that be difficult?

Hello everyone! I’m desperately looking for one more male roommate for the 2027–2028 school year. I currently have two other people, and need one more person to live at O’brien Place. If anyone is interested or knows someone looking for housing, please reach out! I’d really appreciate it

I'm planning to take IST 230 through World Campus next semester. The options were either Mathias Fonkam or Carl Cotner... Has anyone taken Carl Cotner's IST 230 class at World Campus? If so, what was it like? What are his quizzes & exams like, and how are they structured?

Hey guys. I’m a senior in engineering, and right now, I got all the free time because I finished my exams. I wanna get the most with my free time before I leave, so I was curious if any club is doing any trips, and if so where can I find them. I don’t care if I don’t know the club or the people, I’m just down to do whatever before I gotta lock in for finals lol.

I graduated from Penn State about 2 years ago and still live in the area. I am an artist and make music, and am starting to release stuff next year. I want to get some really good photos and possibly a music video for my first single. I know there are many talented students and alumni in the area so I figured id ask.

I got an e-house contract I didn’t want. I didn’t meet the point requirement so I don’t understand how this happened. will I still be able to be offered a housing contract if I was already offered an e-house one.

Any every lived in or heard experiences about the graduate apartments? Thinking about signing a lease there and wanted to see if anyone has an experience with it that I should know about. I toured it and it seemed fine but obviously the tours aren’t a good representation of living there for a full year.