Life at Penn

ilovebagels
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:52:54 +0000

Then again, bagles may have had the perfect college experience at Penn so he should portray Penn the way he experienced it.



Indeed I did, and so I will. God, I rule. :)

I would note that I would not have been nearly as satisfied with my time at Penn if I didn’t take the initiative to GO OUT and DO THINGS instead of sitting around complaining about it. Intro classes are big? Take the time to meet with your professor. Off-campus housing is dirty? Clean it, and get your housemates to do the same (come on, self-proclaimed “future leaders of America,” you can do it). Finding 2000 people to be jerks? You’ve got 8000 left to befriend.

You really need to be someone who can take initiative to thrive at Penn (not to mention at life in general). When you put the effort in, there is no limit to how high you can soar. If you go to Penn expecting it to be like Princeton where everything is handed to you while you are fanned by servants giant leaves, you will find yourself at a crowded, dirty, chaotic, fractious and impersonal sprawling mess of a university that gets confused for a state school, and you will not like it, let alone love it. Penn is not Princeton (and I would not love it if it were). Penn is Penn, and there is no place quite like it, if you can rise to its challenges and opportunities of place, people, professors, and more.

Case-in-point: Yours truly (again, I rule).
Case-in-point #2: MomOfWildChild’s…umm… wild child. He had a lackluster experience and moved to fix it and is now having a much better time.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to hop into my DeLorean and go back to historically oppressing people some more.