Hi Penn undergrads and alumni,
If you want me to consider doing a feature on you, please email the following information to me at merosler@gmail.com:
1) Your name, class year and activities you were involved in at Penn
2) What news you would like me to consider
3) A blurb about how you got your start doing what you're currently doing.
- Take a look at http://beginnings.duelingtampons.com for reference.
4) (If relevant) Please upload a video clip to my site by visiting:
5) What other Penn undergrads or alumni are involved in the news/video you just submitted? Please let me know their
- -names
- -school and
- -class year (i.e. "C'07, W'07, Eng'07).
6) Submit a picture you would like me to consider
- as it relates to your story
- of yourself to use in my post
7) Additional media requested:
- a) Any relevant weblinks related to your news
- b) If you're an actor, upload your headshot here: http://headshots.duelingtampons.com
- c) If you're submitting a story for my "Music Monday" series, please also email
an mp3 of the song you want me to feature
- d) If you're submitting a story for my "Website Wednesday" series, please also send:
- a screengrab of the site
-links to 3 articles you would like to highlight
-a blurb about the site
- e) If you're an author please email me a couple of pages (in pdf format) from your book AND an image of the cover of your book ....AND please post your advice on being:
- ----a novelist HERE:
1) Your credits
2) How did you get your start?
3) What's your path to getting published?
--a) What classes should you take?
--b) What books should an aspiring author read?
--c) How do you get an agent?
--d) How do you get a publisher?
--e) Writing programs to use?
4) Events for networking
6) Groups to join?
7)Which Penn alumni in the business has/have hleped you out?
8) Any other advice?
- ----a screenwriter HERE:
1) Your credits?
2) What classes should you take?
3) Writing programs to use?
4) Registering your work
5) Events to go to network
6) Groups to join?
7) Best place in LA to write?
8) Which Penn alumni in the business has/have helped you out?9) Any other advice?
8) May Penn undergrads and alumni contact you for career advice? If so, what is the best email address for them to get in touch with you?
9) Are there any other alumni working in entertainment who you know who you think I should get in touch with to turn them onto the DuelingTampons.com site?
10) Please add me as a friend
11) Finally, do you still have your Penn card when you were a student? Are you able to scan your card and email it to me (merosler@gmail.com)? I'm hoping to collect at least one Penn card from each class year for a big showcase of the changing styles of the Penn card.
Please note that due to a large number of submissions it may be several weeks before your story is published. If you don't see your story within 3-4 weeks, feel free to email me to follow-up.
thanks!
Matt















"Love you website..! Very fun to read - I cannot believe what alums (that are WAY younger than us) are accomplishing...very cool...!"
-Dorie Clayman (C'96)
"I'm really digging your website. It's nice to have someone keeping track of all us Quaker over-achievers."
-Jeff Levin (C'07)
"Thank you for your website. I've not been in touch with Penn for YEARS, am speaking at the Bookstore and they wrote to me about Dueling Tampons. I've spent the afternoon going around inside it. so thank you!"
Michael Rosen
"Hey, I'll be entering Penn in the Fall as a '12 student. Just trying to get a feel for the campus before I come and Dueling Tampons seems like it has got a big place on campus."
-Eric Jacob Maltiel (SEAS'12)
"I love the way you are reaching out to Penn alums and this site...keep up the good work"
-Jennifer Merves Robbins (C'92)
"I just found dueling tampons, and im hooked. i had no idea so many alum do what i want to do when i grow up!"
-Danielle Hannah (C'03)
"Dueling Tampons has an AWESOME reputation on campus here, and I see you and your site everywhere!"
-Matt Amalfitano (C'11)
"Your site's a great way to keep up with Penn stuff with a laugh. Thanks."
-David Toturgul (C'99)
"What you do on Dueling Tampons I think really provides many Penn students with inspiration for their future careers, as I know it has done with me."
-Ryan Townsend (C'08)
"I really like all the Penn stuff, makes me feel at home... I had a good laugh at the name of the website, it only took me a split second to get it!"
-Dan Gutin (C'97)
"Dueling Tampons is an awesome resource. Thanks for representing LA (my hometown!) and the entertainment industry!"
-Joey Volpe (C'09)
"your dueling tampons site rocks"
-Jordan Rockwell (C'00)
"Big fan of the website! I find it a must read!!"
-Troy Majnerick, Penn New Student Orientation Coordinator
"I just want to thank you. I am a cinema studies major at Penn and your site is an amazing creative and networking resource for me. I love it."
-Dustin Blank (C'09)
"It's great to see you bringing together the community of Penn alums who took a possibly more interesting route and are doing some really cool things."
-Tara Todras-Whitehill (C'00, Eng'00)
"This is the kind of value-added, life-giving nectar that Matt spoons out so regularly, and for which I am forever...FOREVER...indebted to him."
-Adam Hellegers (C'96)
"The Dueling Tampons site is really impressive. I think Penn should just hand the alumni network over to you :)" -Eric Barker (C'94)
Alumni Attending Events Because of DT:
"Logan [Levkoff] was here on Friday and was featured in the October 2 Penn Current and today's DP. I heard about her through DT.com, so thanks Matt!"
-Fran De La Torre (C'04)