Author: Leigh Ann P.
Those of us who have worked at the registration tables at Homecoming and Alumni Weekend in the past have become all-too familiar with the archaic sounds of – what I call – the credit card stamper thingie.
*SQUEEEEEAK*CRUNCH!…. *SQUEEEEEAK*CRUNCH!
This is a device you may have seen in the early ’90s at your elementary school’s annual crawfish festival fundraiser; it’s a prehistoric adventure of capturing credit card information. It leads to bottlenecking and sadness.
You can also pay us using clams or other shells.
If you’re like me, you may associate this level of technology with something my generation calls the Zack Morris phone.
Kelly? Meet me at the Max after school!
But not anymore! The Penn Alumni Weekend registration team has stepped into the twentieth twenty-first century and we will be using iPads to process payments at Alumni Weekend next month.
My husband and I purchased iPads last week (thank you, anticipated tax refund!). So far it has been money extremely well-spent. They have drastically changed our technological lives as we know them. I mean, look at how many tomatoes I’m growing in my Smurf Village.
La, La, la-la-la-laaaa, Laaaa-la-la-la-laaaaa
Frankly Penn 
I love the 80s pictures!!
I love them too! Zack Attack is where it’s at.