<p>Restaurant week coming up! I'm headed to a Steven Starr restaurant!</p>
<p>What's restaurant week?</p>
<p>Restaurant week is your chance to try some really expensive places for $30:</p>
<p>Oh well, won't be in Philly until the following week. Maybe I'll plan for next year if my daughter is accepted.</p>
<p>keepign with the topic of this thread, I'll throw in the obvious reminder that Providence's food scene isn't going to be as nice as Philly's</p>
<p>Do you guys actually get out to nice restaurants? When I was there, the only thing I could afford was cheesesteaks and Chinatown (actually I did take a date once to La Terrace for her birthday).</p>
<p>I'm not going to, say, stop by Pod for a bite to eat. But if it's a special occasion (or if it's restaurant week) then yes we do. Even us po' (read: middle-class) folk.</p>
<p>Twenty-One
Washington Square
Philadelphia Fish & Co.
Lolita
Devon Seafood Grill</p>
<p>There were more I wanted to get to but time is limited yet I had to take
advantage of the year's best bargain for eating out in Philly. What a great
retaurant city this is.</p>
<p>How much are a majority of these meals on a standard-price basis? I am unfamiliar with any of the participating restaurants.</p>
<p>I went to Smith & Wolinsky (sp?) steakhouse last spring during restaurant week, and the regular steak price alone was just over $30...let alone getting the appetizer, steak and dessert for $30 that restaurant week let me get.</p>
<p>The beauty and fun of restaurant week is that the menus are all posted on the website and all meals are $30.00. So.....not only can you see the menu offerings it makes the price known prior to engaging the experience.</p>
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<p>" Now in its fifth year, 86 restaurants will participate in this nearly weeklong event, offering three courses for $30 (not including tax, gratuity or alcohol) and attracting a mix of regular and new guests who just cant turn down such irresistible prices at many of the citys finest restaurants.</p>
<p>Discount parking is available from 5pm 1am for $8.50 or less at 42 participating Center City garages with a parking voucher from the restaurant where you dine."</p>
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<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>Penn is awesome</p>
<p>diddo.....</p>
<p>This question is primarily aimed at Johnnyk, but I guess anyone in Arts and Sciences can answer. How do you feel about the core requirements? Do you find yourself taking classes that you just dont want to take or that make you uncomfortable?</p>
<p>The short answer is no. </p>
<p>In more detail - </p>
<p>1) You WILL need a break from your major. A significant percentage of the general requirement will have nothing to do with it at all. However, you can make a lot of tie-ins, especially if you're in a liberal arts major. Science majors will have the Sciences, Math, and QDAR covered. </p>
<p>2) You will need some GPA boosters. </p>
<p>3) Although you probably don't believe it now, having some background in the wider academic world will make you a better person 20 years from now. (I.e. you don't want to end up like Dilbert.)</p>
<p>4) There are so many eligible classes you will surely find something interesting or at least a couple to share with your sweetie.</p>
<p>I agree. I think the core requirement is ultimately a good thing. It exposes you to interesting new fields. Some of them might even be interesting.</p>
<p>For example, I took psychology-001 to fulfill my life sciences requirement, and I learned a ton in that class. The concepts I learned in that class are truly things I will keep with me for a long time.'</p>
<p>Now I am taking statistics. Even though I hate it, I know it will be useful for me in almost any field to be able to compile and analyze statistical data.</p>
<p>Foreign language, well I'd do that anyway. I'm glad they force that too. Definitely take something other than "the usual suspects" Spanish, French, etc. I took Chinese and now I'm trying my hand at Korean. Why not take Twi? (yes, Penn offers Twi. Their language program is amazingly expansive)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I know I probably wouldn't be taking these classes without being forced to (just because that's the way my mind works), so I'm glad they make me.</p>
<p>any other comments?</p>
<p>The Core is really no big deal, especially if you're coming in with AP Credit. I'm a Poli Sci Major,and through AP I got my Logic (read: Math) requirement out of the way with Calc BC and my Natural Sciences requirement with Chem. So while I may, at some point (though not likely), want to take math or science courses, I certainly do not have to do so, and I suspect that this is becoming more and more common with each incoming class. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Tigerfan: about how many courses are you able to take that count towards your major and the Gen. Req?</p>