East or West coast

sweetnsarah
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:59:12 +0000

Don’t worry, Penn’s the furthest south of the Ivies =]

Seriously, though, there are so many major cities bunched around the Penn area (NY, DC, Pittsburgh, Boston) not to mention Philly seriously is freaking awesome. Pittsburgh and Boston are actually rather far away, but it’s a fun weekend trip if you want to go. Philly really is my favourite city - it’s absolutely perfect.

I actually did not want to be on an urban campus at first, which was a big deterrent of Penn. However, when I visited I realized that even though it’s in the city, it’s not really right in the center of all the chaos that comes with city life. It’s got its own campus, which is nice if you want to take a break from the busy life of incessant car horns and vicious New Jersey drivers (seriously guys. I live in NJ. We can’t drive here. NJ drivers are practically a weapon of mass destruction). I live 20 minutes from Penn, and when I was making my original list of schools I was looking for ones as far as possible from home. I was looking at Northwestern, Stanford, Caltech, University of Hawaii, University of Southern Cal - anything far away, regardless of what kind of school it was. I was even going to apply to schools in England and Israel to get away from my insane parents. However, I just could not bring myself to leave the Northeast and all the good times that are available because of Philadelphia and NY. So even though I’m probably going to have to deal with my parents visiting me every freaking weekend, it is SO worth it to be in Philly, in my opinion. And it’s not just my personal bias. A lot of my friends who were dying to get away realized how much they just can’t leave Philly and NY so they’re all enrolling at schools within an hour drive from home. I think Philly > NY because people are so much friendlier here, minus people from NJ who really suck. I can’t remember what I did and did not say, but I can see I typed a lot which is a little insane so I’m stopping. I hope I successfully conveyed the point that Philly ROCKS!

Besides, you can’t pelt Drexel students with snowballs during the first snowfall in “sunny Cali” =]