<p>school, attitude of professors, their habits, the hallway is really long, kids never cook their own food, people party on tuesdays, the toilets are bad, rooms are big, boring classses</p>
<p>what is it?</p>
<p>i’m sure you can find a school that has an attitude like Penn’s, another school with Penn’s party schedule, another school with a similar campus…but you can only find one place where they all come together in one institution…</p>
<p>I think one unique thing may be Locust Walk…a big centralized campus artery, a Main Street of sorts. Walk down Locust, and you will see people in med scrubs, Wharton folk in their power suits, tweedy College professors, student groups advertising cultural shows, a capppella shows, plays, musicals, dances, parties, charities, political causes…and you’ll hear half a dozen different languages babbling on.</p>
<p>Other schools have a central field, and people walk through it, but the effect you get when everyone is so close to you because it’s a linear walk…well it’s something to behold.</p>
<p>For the ivies and other top colleges one thing Penn has that the other’s don’t is an unusually large international undergraduate student body. This really isn’t the case on most other schools.</p>
<p>Emphasis on practical education. Pre-professional focus.</p>
<p>All three are unique to Penn. Two are splendid the third is a splendid failure.</p>
<p>Locust Walk definitely… I just wrote a research paper on it actually, lol… about how it contributes to the atmosphere at penn… I think the atmopshere is also unique though… there aren’t many schools with a competitive enviorment yet such a laid back side as well</p>
<p>As much as you might hope that only Penn would have the high-rise dorms, I am sorry to say that that is not the case.</p>
<p>During the 70s traditional dorms were viewed as outdated, and high-rise apartment structures was the way to go. Many univiersities have these types of dormitories.</p>
<p>It would have been so much better if they hadn’t rushed the project and instead gone with the proposed park-layout with dispersed brick-complexes of varying height.</p>
<p>I think it’s the fact that you have 4 undergraduate schools and 12 graduate schools all on ONE campus that although located in the city (philly is awesome), still feels like an actual campus.</p>
<p>Hey snipanlol you are correct about the high rise…my amazement is that Penn still has them, still $pend$ to remodel them when they should raze them. I agree the park plan would have been better but face it…this housing sore is Penn’s achilles heal. They are just soooooo ugly and well…leave it at that.</p>
<p>but are there anything unique besides the physical places of penn? What about the minute details that make pennn such a good place?</p>
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