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<p>What do you like most about Penn? What don’t you like about it? How is it different from all the other crazy good schools out there?</p>

<p>(I’m a rising senior, and I really don’t know anything about individual colleges except that some are really prestigious and that some cost a billion dolllars a year. Any info I can get will help out a lot.)</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>also- are there african food stores/restaurants in philly?</p>

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<p>what i like most about penn: campus in the city vibe, reputation</p>

<p>what i don’t like about it: west philly</p>

<p>how is it different: being in the ivy league narrows it down, and we’re not as stuck up as HYP</p>

<p>and to racnna, there are plenty of african food stores/restaurants in philly.</p>

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<p>Like:</p>

<p>-The breadth of classes that come with 4 undergrad schools
-the fun social scene
-Locust walk
-The grassy campus plopped into the middle of an urban grid
-the variety of residential options available (dorms, apartments, houses, frats, homeless)
-my professors
-food carts
-relative lack of far-left moonbats
-the palpable sense of progress the university is making in becoming the bestest university ever
-BIOPOND
-Penn traditions (Hey Day, Econ Scream, Feb Club, Walnut Walk, Spring Fling…)
-That our campus has not one but TWO Starbucks (with a possible 3rd on the way in the new DOMUS building)
-FroGro, the 24-7 supermarket
-Amy Gutmann fundraising</p>

<p>Dislike:
-Amy Gutmann public speaking
-West Philadelphians
-Princeton :wink:
-on-campus housing is an embarrassment, save for the Quad
-people who think it’s Penn State or otherwise not awesome
-people who think Wharton is heads and shoulders above the rest of the university
-sororities, and St. A’s</p>

<p>The good outweigh the bad by far…so very far</p>

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<p>the beautiful girls…HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH</p>

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<p>man, upenn sounds so kickass. i have a couple friends there right now at pre-college and they are raving about it. too bad i won’t get in for undergrad lol.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it’s pretty kickass</p>

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<p>I’m here for my second summer as pre-college. It’s a nice place to live - it’s pretty hot during the summer, but every building you walk in is freezing (not that thats a bad thing). </p>

<p>The thing I dont like about “Pre college” which regular college students may not have a problem with, is that they give you 3 meals a day, 2 on sunday… so you dont really get a chance to eat out much - and UPenn is surrounded by hundreds of awesome-looknig restaurants - but of course us pre-colelge kids are discouraged from eating there becuase we get free meals from the cafeteria - which doesn’t have bad food, and there is a nice variety, but it would be nice if they could encourage us to branch out more and explore philly.</p>

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<p>awesome looking restaurants… i am doomed so is my wallet…
haha</p>

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<p>asians and your food-obsession</p>

<p>.</p>

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<p>awesome looking restaurants on campus? not really…</p>

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<p>I like:

  • Locust walk, unless I’m late for class
  • Philadelphia’s restaurants, so many good ones!
  • food carts - cheap and delicious
  • most of my classes
  • interdisciplinary academic culture
  • fun, down-to-earth people
  • balanced social scene (work hard, play hard :slight_smile: )
  • I’m going to sound like a complete dork, but there are some really awesome places to study on-campus.
  • the fact that GAP and Anne Taylor Loft are literally on my way to and from classes
  • the highrises and the fact that they’re being renovated!
  • incredibly active student body</p>

<p>I dislike:

  • the chaotic and inefficient bureaucracy
  • knee-deep puddles near the 38th street bridge
  • Actually the bridge itself is kind of a pain
  • trudging through rain, snow or any other form of precipitation espeicially if it accumulates on the ground
  • the highrise elevators
  • the wind tunnels near the highrises and elsewhere
  • ABP in Huntsman at lunchtime.
  • the Huntsman computers…slow and just generally obnoxious
  • mandatory freshman meal plans, though the dining hall food is not terrible, it just gets old and boring rather quickly</p>
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<p>puddles suck</p>

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<p>When I wrote for the DP, I had an interview with Penn’s head of facilities. I asked him about the 38th st bridge puddle.</p>

<p>Him:“Yeah, it’s a design flaw. the drainage system is too narrow and always gets clogged.”</p>

<p>Me: “So are you ever going to…you know…fix it?”</p>

<p>Him: “No”</p>

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<p>^Fabulous.</p>