Tuesday Tips: Using DuelingTampons.com to help me with my career in 8 easy steps

I recently got an email from Eric Barker (C'94) a former feature writer who is currently in Boston getting his MBA and wants to leverage his entertainment/media experience in the business world.

"First semester's over so I need to start internship hunting," says Eric. "I'm trying to reconnect with some Penn people and meet some new folks. What's the best way to go about building on my Penn network?"

Great question.

As the former Penn Club President here in Los Angeles and Executive Producer of Pennfest (our now 6th annual emerging film and music festival), this has been a question I continue to get from aspiring undergrads and alumni anxious to get into the biz.

Click here check out my advice in 8 steps to Eric ...and all of you.

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Hey, Hey, Hey...he's hosting this Penn festival

Click here to find out which TV and film star is hosting Mask and Wig's 10th annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival.

Started in 1998 by Cloverfield associate producer Dave Baronoff (C'99, L'02, Mask and Wig), Mask and Wig is now celebrating its 10th annual Intercollegate Comedy Festival with host Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live, Nickelodeon's All That, & star of film remake of Fat Albert.

Groups performing on this night include Penn's Mask and Wig Club, Princeton's The Triangle Club, Boston College's Hello Shovelhead, University of Maryland's Sketchup.

Past hosts include Ana Gasteyer, Bob Saget, Kevin Nealon, Stephen Colbert, Tim Meadows, Gilbert Gottfried, and Dan Bakkedahl.

As you can see by the picture above, Kenan often dresses in drag on SNL. It would be awesome if he did that for this upcoming show and interacted with Mask and Wig! Check back for photos and video from the show!

More info and tickets here

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Bringing their harmony to the 76ers game

What happens when you mix professional sports with the Glee Club?

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This novelist is a “Breakthrough” semi-finalist

Phyllis Zimbler Miller (WG’80)’s novel “Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel” has been nominated as a semi-finalist for the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition.

Phyllis’ story is a personal one based on her own experiences in 1970 as one of 4 women who came together when their husbands went on active duty as officers in the U.S. Army.

Click here for synopsis of the book +/-

“They had their whole lives to look forward to if only their husbands could survive Vietnam.

In the spring of 1970 – right after the Kent State National Guard shootings and President Nixon’s two-month incursion into Cambodia – four newly married young women come together at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, when their husbands go on active duty as officers in the U.S. Army.

Different as these four women are, they have one thing in common: Their overwhelming fear that, right after these nine weeks of training, their husbands could be shipped out to Vietnam – and they could become war widows.

Sharon is a Northern Jewish anti-war protester who fell in love with an ROTC cadet; Kim is a Southern Baptist whose husband is intensely jealous; Donna is a Puerto Rican who grew up in an enlisted man’s family; and Wendy is a Southern black whose parents have sheltered her from the brutal reality of racism in America.”

One review from the Amazon book page for MRS. LIEUTENANT:
“All the books and movies I've seen about the Vietnam War are from the point of view of men. So it's really exciting to have a book that focuses on the point of view of women during that tumultuous time, and even more so women whose husbands have just voluntarily joined the army. I particularly appreciated the news items at the beginning of each chapter so that the context of the women's world is clear. And I enjoyed reading the information about how to be a good officer's wife. Taken all together, I think this is a unique and important look into a specific segment of women during a divisive period in American history.”

According to Phyllis, “I wrote this novel to preserve a record of a significant historical period for women – the experience of the wives of officers during the Vietnam War. I saved all the original documents from when I was a new Mrs. Lieutenant in the spring of 1970, and this novel is a dramatic representation of my experiences. I’m now working on MRS. LIEUTENANT IN EUROPE, which will involve being an officer’s wife in Germany during the Cold War – with even more original documentation.”

Check out the first few pages of the novel here and add a review of your own
(According to the competition instructions, the more reviews the more likely the judges will pay attention to Phyllis’ novel during the judging for the 10 finalists.)

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Something’s deliciously fishy about this short

As the final part of my Talented Undergrad Showcase Week: featuring filmmaker Brian Canavan (C'10), take a look at this creative "Goldfish" piece by Brian using stop action animation (credit also goes to Andrew Salute (C'10), David Loewy (C'10), Chris Arasin (C'10), Emily Barlow (C'10), and Amy Jones (C'10)). As you can see throughout this week, Brian seems to successfully experiment with different film genres.

Check out Brian's stop action "Goldfish" short

Click to see what other 2010 Penn undergrads are up to

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They're running a film festival in Philadelphia

Believe it or not there's another Penn related film festival outside of the Los Angeles based Pennfest film & music festival.

It's the Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival (GPSFF) and this one is only for current Penn (and neighboring Philadelphia college) students and alumni one year out.

You hear that undergrad filmmakers I posted about here?

Now in its 3rd year and co-run by Penn undergrads, GPSFF seeks t o forge lasting connections between the city and its most talented filmmakers as an investment in Philadelphia's film industry. This festival provides an outlet for Philadelphia students to screen their films in front of a city-wide audience of their peers.

“The GPSFF team has built an extensive network of student liaisons from the various schools that will allow the Festival to grow beyond the walls of UPenn, where it originally started.” said Yanik Ruiz-Ramón (C’10), Co-Executive Director of the Festival’s board. “With the success of last year’s festival, we are anticipating tremendous growth for this year’s event, with more submissions from more schools, a more diverse attendance of students throughout the region, and greater support from both the city and promotional sponsors,” said Jason Gurwin (W’08), Co-Executive Director, a founding member of the festival board.

GPSFF will be accepting submissions from current Penn students and alumni within one year of graduation through Friday February 1st, WITH NO SUBMISSION FEE! (Late submissions may be sent in by February 15th but require a $10 late fee.)

Finalists will have their films screened in front of hundreds of adoring fans at the GPSFF Awards Ceremony on March 28 and the winning films will be screened in the Philadelphia Film Festival in April in Levitt Auditorium at 401 S. Broad Street, which seats up to 600 people.

Click here for submission guidelines

Any questions, email GPSFF@GPSFF.com.

Watch the GPSFF Promotional Videos: City Ad, "GPSFF Boardroom": Day One, Day Two

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Now & Then Thursdays: My Dorm Room 15 years later!!

A few weeks ago I started a "Tuesday Tips" weekly series and now starting today, I will be starting a weekly "Now and Then Thursdays" series highlighting videos and photos from my time on campus with the current campus.

To start this series off, back in September 2007, through facebook photo postings, I found the student who is currently living in the room I lived in my freshman year in the lower Quad!

I know what you're asking... "how do you know it's the same room?"

Besides the fact that I ultimately asked the girl via facebook, I first identified the photos because my room was a unique top floor corner room in a dead end hallway (--in a building without an elevator! Yes, I had a hell of a time going up and down those stairs and I had killer calf muscles by the end of the year. ...Don't even get me started on move-in and move-out!)

Click below to see the shocking side-by-side photo comparisons of my 1992 room photos vs. the current day room photos!
Photo 1: Room
Photo 2: Room
Photo 3: Quad View
Photo 4: Hallway

Alumni, have any good stories related to your dorm room? Comment below!

Undergrads, what's the best aspect of dorm rooms today? Comment below!

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