Former Penn Student Jade Vixen

Because of some sad news (you know, a love triangle resulting in a murder-suicide and a kidnapping), the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Post have reintroduced us to a former Penn student that Career Services has probably tried to forget.

Meet Edythe Maa, A.K.A. Jade Vixen, a top New York City dominatrix.

Maa is a former Penn engineering Ph.D. candidate. I’ll leave you to find out all of the salacious details of the tragic love triangle by clicking the above links on your own time, but this got me thinking about some other inspirational post-Penn career paths.

As someone desperately in need of direction in this crazy, crazy world of ours, I hope some of these Penn grads can serve as inspiration:

1) Kevin Allen: Contestant in the second season of The Apprentice. Maybe, dude, maaaaybe if you’d been on season one you could be my idol. Plus, you get points off for the whole Wharton deal. But your website certainly is fancy.

2) Evelyn Margaret Ay: Miss America 1954. I’m still checking to be sure she didn’t actually graduate from Penn State, because, well, “Miss America from Penn” warrants some serious fact-checking.

3) Alfred Mosher Butts: ‘Cause of his last name, obviously, but also because in the 1930s this clever little Quaker invented Scrabble, the game my mother still has to let me win.

4) Richard Garfield: The creator of Magic: The Gathering. He was the reason I had friends in middle school.

5) Maury Povich: You might have already known that “the poor man’s Jerry Springer” is a Penn alum. If so, like me, you probably wake up every morning and ask yourself, “Am I really going to graduate with the same piece of paper as this man?” Seeing Maury’s name on plaques around campus doesn’t make it easier.

Let’s do big things, folks!

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