Invited to apply for BFS/Integrated Studies?

Philosoraptor
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:47:18 +0000

As for people who were thinking along the same lines as samesies when samesies said " I’m worried that it will a certain type of person in the program that I won’t get along with," I was initially with you, but after thinking about it I realized that if we all think this way, none of them will apply for the program. I applied because I was very interested in IS as an intellectual pursuit, and I figured that I’m a fairly normal person: im going to be participating in athletics and I plan on partying and having fun while in college. I initially thought of it the same way, but then I realized I was looking at this with a high school mentality and not a Penn mentality. I was a bit afraid of being stuck in a residential program with uptight study obsessed overachievers but then I realized that at a place like Penn, the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Also, IS is a residential program within Riepe that is going to include only 80 students out of the 450 or so who are going to be living there, so it’s not like there’s going to be a completely closed off IS section.