My gravitation to creative writing, wordforming, and languages melded together: Crosswords were for me to solve, and they kept me in the know. And when I realized that minis were a less brutish challenge than full-size crosswords, I completed them everyday. I began believing in the power of crossword puzzles during quarantine when my first year at Penn fell out from under me. But maybe crosswords - made for students, by students - can keep us all mulling over something worthwhile and fulfilling in the meantime.
In this muddle, it’s clear that our minds are elsewhere and ablaze. Technology has raised these concerns for us where digital landscapes have brought us together, they’ve somehow lost their meaning. How we unite to understand the world has changed, with less reliance on analog connection. As a result, students are more likely to view social media, shop online, and stream video than to open up the conventional newspaper or magazine. It’s obvious that the ways in which we consume and approach media and news have changed since the start of the pandemic. In our University City office of student staffers, we’ll create timely and engaging puzzles that detail campus-wide happenings, Penn-specific references, and the usual thought-provoking clues that always flutter at the corners of your brain. And I’m happy to bring this new project to you now as the news world meets an abrupt challenge of wrestling for readers’ attention. Hi, I’m the DP, Inc.’s inaugural senior crosswords editor, Tyler.
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