<p>i like the thrills - are you in the m&t program - saw a pic of the m and t office that i saw when I was at mtsi - can you check out my m&t chance thread (on the UPENN discussion board) if you are</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>hah, no i'm not in that program. i'm transferring there as a sophomore into mechanical engineering only. but i did run into john bassani, who used to be dept chair, while i was there. i think he's going to be my statics teacher this fall, i wonder if he'll remember me.</p>
<p>i like the thrills, I've seen your pictures before, but they kinda give me the scattered urban university type of feeling (don't get me wrong, they are mesmeric)</p>
<p>dooit, a lot of my pictures came out bad b/c the sky was so bright that day...however, it is hard to capture the unity of penn with a series of pictures. i suggest going to <a href="http://www.facilities.upenn.edu%5B/url%5D">www.facilities.upenn.edu</a> and messing around with the interactive campus map. but then again, before i went to penn i judged it by that site and still thought it was scattered...</p>
<p>Ya, your pictures are better than the upenn.com ones...</p>
<p>Penn has a great campus. You are in a big city, but it doesn't feel that way. The campus still feels and looks like a college campus.</p>
<p>With regards to the drivers running lights... if you hear two quick honks while you're about to cross the street then don't move. I learned quickly that two honks means "move out of the way I'm running the light."</p>
<p>Personally, I think it's the best urban campus on the east coast. And yes, I have been to Harvard and Yale.</p>
<p>What about Columbia? that's me favorite. Though I am a total whore for neoclassical</p>
<p>Columbia's ok. But there isn't much of campus life. Plus, Penn is way bigger and has Locust walk, lol.</p>
<p><3 locust walk. it's much better for creating a community than a quadrangle setup employed by most other schools</p>
<p>I hear Locust Walk is beautiful</p>
<p>Actually there IS a forest that's not far at all!</p>
<p>Near the Botany Research building there is a little wooded area with a beautiful pond, a trail, and some picnic tables. It's very very nice and you can walk to it easily...It's kinda hidden away behind some research buildings.</p>
<p>I work on Penn's campus and it's very nice. Today was absolutely beautiful. Just when you get sick of shady brick paths you pop out into an area of hustle and bustle. It's very clean as well. The city of Philadelphia is also very beautiful in some parts...</p>
<p>It's a great place to go to school.</p>
<p>That's the Biopond. I believe it's where a large contingent of students living in the Quad go to smoke up.</p>
<p>JohnnyK- that's what my dad told me from when he was at Penn.</p>
<p>some things never change...</p>
<p>where was that picture of the climbing wall taken?</p>
<p>are there farmers' markets or anything? the pictures look like a perfect place to hold one. haha,i'm from the west coast...can you tell?</p>
<p>wait -- where do people umm smoke. and im not talking about smoking. i'm talking about umm ... smoking.</p>
<p>Penn really is a campus within the city. You don't feel like you're in an urban environment until you go downtown (ie Center City).</p>
<p>I can say from personal experience that anyone from New York won't find the "disregard for traffic law" to be anything exceptional.</p>
<p>I'm not a student, but I also believe that the Penn campus is absolutely beautiful. I found the architecture to be greater than any of the other schools that I've visited. Yale is beautiful, but Penn is more navigable. It also is great how the campus feels enclosed from the city.</p>