scribbler91

hmm maybe I should use a bike.

How safe/unsafe would having an 1100 dollar bike outside be? Obviously I'd lock it up, but people could still technically steal parts/cut the lock. I have the bike anyway (for road cycling), I just have never used it for getting to class (at boarding school).

nychica

bikes get stolen. i would say that stolen stuff, ie. bikes, is pretty much it 4 crime @ penn. u really don't need a bike at penn though. it takes like 10 minutes to walk around the whole campus

tenebrousfire

nah it's not worth risking that nice of a bike

just learn to powerwalk when necessary =p

Psolo2

Hello all,

I finished the Penn AM several weeks ago, but I'm unsure as to how I can go about verifying that I’ve been registered as “complete?” in the Penn AM system.

I sent this same inquiry via the general e-mail address for Penn AM (alcohol@upenn.edu), but it bounced back.


Psolo2

Excursions

I just refreshed the page and it said that I was "complete".

chrisw

ha, don't even worry about it. A lot of my friends never even bothered doing the little alcohol education thing.

shallarock

As a Penn student, I would just like to point out that having an $1100 bike outside is one of the worst ideas I can imagine.

It's not like all bikes get stolen immediately, but stuff does happen, and especially to expensive ones whose parts would sell for more.

atlanticocean

What questions do they ask at this interview?

kevinkirbykevin

@atlanticocean: My friend had one of those interviews and she says that she was asked about the activities she did during high school and what she planned to do in college. Questions sort of along those lines.

ChairmanGuo

HOw do the dorms work? Do you get to pick where/with whom to stay?

ChairmanGuo

Is the financial aid application process lenient? For example, if you forget to send one of the millions of papers or forgot the deadline, does it mean you would be stuck paying $50000 a year or could you negotiate?

FightingQuaker

Don't know about the financial aid but...

There are 11 college houses (dorms), and you'll live in one of them your Freshman year. You'll fill out a housing application with your top choices. You can either just apply for a certain type of room in a specific dorm, or you can apply to a "residential program," which brings people who are interested in the same sort of thing together and it usually holds events for them. Freshman usually go for the quad, and then hill. The quad is very popular and it's not exactly easy to get in. If you find someone (or already know someone) that you want to live with, then you can let housing services know on your application. You'll both have to apply with the exact same list of houses/residential programs. Oh yeah, and you have to write an essay for the residential programs.