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<p>Dear current undergraduate students at UPenn:</p>

<p>I am curious of a typical day at UPenn. One day that might involve classes, extracurricular activities and hanging out with friends and such.</p>

<p>Please if it's possible, describe any typical day one might encounter while his/her years at UPenn. </p>

<p>p.s. please include a name of library or restaurant or other places one might have went that day.</p>

<p>I want to feel the real life of UPenn student's typical day.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance</p>

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<p>UPenn has a very vibrant and active day and nightlife. I've only been here since Aug. 29 but just walking from my dorm to the cafe brings me joy; always the students moving about and socializing, young men and women of many different cultural backgrounds hustling to class, grabbing a bite to eat, or sitting in a grassy area getting some sun. People play stickball and criquet (if that's how to spell it). People throw frisbees and play football. People not even part of the Penn community walk their dogs and go running on campus. It has truly been a great experience thus far. To be smack dab in the city of Philly, UPenn truly has a beautiful campus, with the classic gothic style ivy league buildings. Some of the buildings on campus look like castles. At night, there are throngs of people going to one of the many frat houses to party and people go to many places locally to eat. I haven't been out to eat much because the food plan here is pretty awesome. Haven't studied in the library yet, but it is all within walking distance. The bookstore here is something to behold. I think the thing I like best so far is the fact that one can handle all their business in such a short radius - their shopping, eating, studying and partying. It may not be like Cornell or Dartmouth, ivies that don't have much else outside of their campuses to partake in, but I promise you this, this is arguably the funnest place to be in the ivies. That isn't biased because I live close to NYC and can make a logical assumption about life at Columbia (NY is great, but very expensive and life in that city takes away from their campus life) and I used to go to school in Boston and although I love that city also, for UPenn students, they get the run of the city in Philly. Drexel, which is very close to UPenn, pales in comparison as far as campus setting.</p>

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<p>who's playing croquet or cricket or both? this i have to see...</p>

<p>typical day = waking up, groaning, showering, sitting in class and trying not to fall asleep</p>

<p>catching meals with friends, lots of hilarity ensuing, working if you need to and doing extracurriculars of all shapes and sizes</p>

<p>exploring philly, taking day trips elsewhere (the shore!)</p>

<p>some buildings look like castles, and one is actually called the castle =)</p>

<p>food trucks.</p>

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<p>here was my day today:</p>

<p>woke up at 730, stepped out of the quad to go to a small place for a sandwhich</p>

<p>class from 9-1030... the teacher puts on accents when he quotes foreigners, its pretty funny. and hes not a joke, either, he won the pulitzer prize.</p>

<p>then I went to Career Services and talked to an advisor about going to law school</p>

<p>Then class from 11-12, and we watched videos of Mussolini in Italian class</p>

<p>12-130 had class again, and we looked at African burial masks and their influence on the Cubist art movement (fun)</p>

<p>and now Im eating food from the vegetarian food cart on campus.</p>

<p>despite the rain, my day has been good/productive</p>

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<p>My day:
Wake up
Shower if I'm not running late
Eat when I can
Work when I can
Mess around with hall mates and friends (basically have fun)
Find that it's after 10 and I havn't started any of my work
Homework till I collapse
Wake up the next morning and run to class (why do I start at 9 or 10 every day?)</p>

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<p>Today:</p>

<p>Woke up around 8am
Ate Bfast at the fruit salad food truck
9-10.5 Critical Writing Sem. in Native American Women's lives
10.5-12 Astronomy
12-1.5 Myth, Fraud & Science in Archaeology
Now, I'm chilling in my dorm till 5 when I have Women's Rugby practice and then later to night when I'm going to a lecture by Dr. Kors on student liberties. <em>yay</em> college libertarians!!</p>

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<p>But, being new here, I was just trying to give happiedaiz the "new kid" view of things. I'm sure he will experience most everything I said in my first post, and then when he settles in (which I have not done completely yet, hence my first post) he'll probably experience most everything you guys are speaking about now.</p>

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<p>Drexel actually won 1st place in the princeton review rankings for "campus is tiny, unsightly, or both"</p>

<p>To their credit, they've been doing the best they can to spruce it up given what little real estate they have and capital to use on it. They've got a snazzy fountain you can see on the way to 30th st station</p>

<p>(just think, with the eastward expansion, the trip to 30th st station will consist of going through penn, then drexel, then penn territory AGAIN... yessss</p>

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<p>Would u believe that last night I WALKED to the 30th st. station to get a cup of Dunkin' D's coffee for me and one of my roommates? Yep, around midnight, and I saw Drexels fountain and their law school building both for the first time. Yes, it is very unsightly compared to UPenn.</p>

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<p>Thanks for everyone's input.</p>

<p>I really appreciate it.</p>

<p>Any more typical day at U Penn?</p>

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<p>Happiedaiz - You really must work on improving your written English if you would like to apply to Penn. Your question showed a very shaky command of English grammar.</p>

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<p>datdude did you get shot?</p>

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<p>Is west Philly that dangerous?</p>

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<p>I just got through ripping some Yalies on their thread about the "dangers" of going to schools in "bad" neighborhoods, so I'll tell you like I told them, there's always the U of Vermont, Villanova or Connecticut College if you can't handle the "bad" neigborhoods around the campus.</p>

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<p>And no tetrisfan, I think this city is wonderful. I have been off the porch long enough to know how to handle myself and I think people who constantly address things like danger in the area around campus aren't used to seeing people other than their next door neighbors back home and their affluent classmates from high school. Philly is Philly, and whoever believes it is worth it to forego the education that UPenn has to offer because of the "bad" neighborhoods, be my guest. The city could do without them anyway.</p>

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<p>The campus itself isn't too bad, even though it has seen some high profile attacks lately. However, the surrounding city is obviously very questionable, with 294 murders within the city limits just so far this year as of Monday this week - that compares so far this year to 330 killings in New York City (which is 4x larger), 220+ in Baltimore, 52 killings in Boston, and 10 or fewer in places like Cambridge, New Haven, Princeton, Ithaca, etc. </p>

<p>Here's a campus crime round up from the Feds, from the past couple years (in the parentheses, I also broke out the # that actually took place in the dorms, versus just on the campus in general). You can see how Ivy campuses are pretty safe.</p>

<p>Brown 0 murders, 2 armed robberies, 2 assaults, 49 burglaries (incl 44 in dorms)
Yale 0 murders, 4 armed robberies, 0 assaults, 82 burglaries (incl 28 in dorms)
Harvard 0 murders, 2 armed robberies, 6 assaults, 451 burglaries (incl 119 in dorms)
UPenn 1 murder, 19 armed robberies, 5 assaults, 33 burglaries
Columbia 0 murders, 4 armed robberies, 6 assaults, 113 burglaries (incl 42 in dorms)
Cornell 0 murders, 2 armed robberies, 16 assaults, 68 burglaries (incl 34 in dorms, plus 15 assaults and 1 armed robbery in dorms)
Princeton 0 murders, 0 armed robberies, 2 assaults, 63 burglaries (incl 37 in dorms)
Dartmouth 0 murders, 1 armed robbery, 0 assaults, 36 burglaries (34 in dorms)</p>

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<p>Helpful as always. I will stay with what I said, if Philly is so bad, go to another school. If New Haven (Yale area) is so bad, go to another school. There are enough schools in this country for everyone and enough different environments to suit everybody. Isn't this argument mainly between you and MovieBuff? PosterX, don't you have a flower somewhere that needs watering? Or a hammock to rest on? After all this rhetoric on the Yale and Penn sites, what exactly is your point? By now, everyone would like to know so we can all agree with you just to shut you up. If all you are trying to say is that Philly is questionable then you're right, Philly is questionable. If New Haven is the best area for college students, fine. We both know you'll never get anyone with any common sense to agree with that, but if it'll shut you up... What fool argues so much about the area around their college as opposed to other areas? When does it not matter anymore? New Haven is the best! Yale rocks! OK, PosterX?</p>

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<p>today:
hallmate wakes me up, go to early classes, done by 11, eat lunch with friends, nap, read book for english, dinner with friends, cake walk! (like musical chairs, winner gets a cake in dining hall) we lost:(, studied outside in the Quad with friends, community service meetings with pizza, library to study with friends played speed naming amino acids, and returned home and caught up with hallmates, and found candy on my door!</p>

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<p>today: I went around putting poisoned candy on doors in the dorms</p>

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<p>Thursday:
went out partying wednesday so i woke up at 9 for my 9AM class and sprinted to DRL from the quad
Class till 1 then had lunch in my room
slept till 3:50
ran to chem building for lab lecture
got home and started math homework somewhat
BBQ at a frat
finish homework
party at one house
party at another house
walk drunk friend home at 2
hear noise out of my room at 3 and then have to help hallmate (drunk friend's roommate) clean up vomit
asleep by 4</p>