Conscious Hacking with PennApps 2018
This post adapted from this posting on the Penn Engineering blog. For the last three years, Claire Donovan (ENG, ’20) and Adele Li (M&T, ’20) have…
Making PennApps XVII Happen
PennApps, the world’s original student-run hackathon, just turned 17. We hosted PennApps XVII January 19-21st , and have seen a lot in these past years. Since…
Building a Great Team through M&T and PennApps
Over the Valentine’s Day weekend earlier this year, I worked on a project at the PennApps hackathon with three fellow M&T freshman, Alex, Ben, and Gagan.…
PennApps 2013: An Integral Part of the Penn Experience
At the beginning of every semester, Penn’s computer science club (The Dining Philosophers) organizes a massive hackathon called PennApps. A hackathon is a 24- to 48-hour…
PennApps: Life Lessons on Three Hours of Sleep
Life Lesson #1: if an M&T asks you to join them, don’t say no. I didn’t even consider PennApps until my friend Nina approached me a…
My Facebook Summer Internship: Fun and Coding in Silicon Valley
This past summer, I did a software engineering internship at Facebook. I was pretty excited about it going in – they had flown me out to…
