<p>chris donovan is a god (gregory house dean)</p>
<p>take an english class with him. Today we talked about GoodFellas and Scarface for like 10 mins.</p>
<p>How about Harrison and Rodin? Stouffer sounds amazing (it's definitely a top choice of mine) but I've always liked having a view. Can someone elaborate on these two dorms (and compare them to Stouffer if at all possible???) Thanks.</p>
<p>From a few previous posts, it sounds like putting the quad houses as your top choices isn't the best idea, because you end up in none of them. Is it not a good idea to put the three quad houses as 1, 2, 3 on your list?</p>
<p>^downtown what I've gathered is that if you really want the quad you might as well. Doing the math I believe they can hold about... 1100 freshman (using % freshman x population), and with a class of around double that, I believe things come down in the end to a lottery (I'm guessing 1st choice>2>3 in that...) Maybe use the pennspace thing</p>
<p>The highrises are more or less indistinguishable from each other. They're all fine place to live, if not a bit lame for freshman.</p>
<p>Stouffer is just lame for everyone.</p>
<p>Jco's mom, on the other hand, is quite fun for everyone</p>
<p>Why do people say that the high-rises suck for Freshmen? Two of the four (Gregory, Rodin, Harrison and Stouffer) dorms I'm considering are high-rises and I'd like to know what people have to say about them.</p>
<p>People don't keep their doors open, because they can't really be kept open. So its harder to meet people. Plus your neighbors are upperclassmen who have their own social networks already.</p>
<p>They try to keep freshman near each other, and all the highrise freshman stick together, but they still end up meeting less people.</p>
<p>also, with 24 stories of rooms in each highrise, people don't tend to go to a floor they don't live on just randomly, so random / chance encounters that can build friendships / relationships aren't as common as they are in the other college houses.</p>
<p>Will someone please give me some more info on Gregory? Are the people their really anti social and wierd? Also, I heard that there's bunches of international students there.</p>
<p>Also, the quad is really gorgeous, but can i actually get work done there? I'm getting a double major. I'm a really social person, just not a drinker/party-er.</p>
<p>You can get work done anywhere....you don't need to surround yourself with losers.</p>
<p>Trust me, this is a good problem to have:</p>
<p>"Oh, yeah, sorry <15th friend on hall to ask>, I can't go out tonight, I need to work."</p>
<p>This is a bad problem to have:</p>
<p>"I hate my life because I live in Gregory. I finsihed all my work because I have no friends. Now I have nothing to dooo."</p>
<p>Ok, that's dramatized, but really, if you have a decent work ethic, live where you'll have the most fun.</p>
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<p>What the heck does that mean? Penn has study lounges, libraries and many other places to study OTHER than a dorm room. I cannot imagine that most students expect to do the majority of studying in their room. You need to get with the college way of doing things. Did you study in your room for all of high school? I surely did NOT.</p>
<p>jon,</p>
<p>that is effing cold</p>
<p>in game theory, there is a little thing called altruism</p>
<p>For those who get off the waitlist, do they get the worst housing?</p>
<p>Sorry to bother you guys...
Is hill just like the quad? kinda fratty, heavy drinking, really loud?
I don't really mind small rooms, etc...I've been at a boarding school for the past two years anyways</p>
<p>Is it hard for a freshman to get a single at Hill? And how's King's Court?</p>
<p>You might like Kings Court. Hill is always the "just as good" or "never, ever go there" argument.</p>
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Sorry to bother you guys...
Is hill just like the quad? kinda fratty, heavy drinking, really loud?
I don't really mind small rooms, etc...I've been at a boarding school for the past two years anyways</p>
<p>Is it hard for a freshman to get a single at Hill? And how's King's Court?
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I can't believe you just used the quad as a way to insult Hill...I've NEVER heard someone go "Gosh, I hate Hill, it's just SO quaddish!"</p>
<p>Maybe you should look into the holy order of Lambda Chi Alpha, you'd fit right in</p>
<p>2 questions:</p>
<p>1) If you want to live in the Quad, you should put the 3 Quad houses as your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices? Would this maximize your chances?</p>
<p>2) Looking on the map of the Quad, it shows that there are sort of different areas of the Quad... Like, I know Fisher is Upper Quad and Riepe is Lower Quad, so do kids in those areas feel separated at all from the rest of the Quad residents/tend to hang out only with kids in their respective house? On the map (<a href="http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/dbimages/Quad.gif%5B/url%5D">http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/dbimages/Quad.gif</a>) it sort of seems like Riepe, which I'm thinking of putting as my 1st choice because I want a residential program there, is a bit distanced and separated from the rest of the Quad... Could anyone elaborate on the, cohesiveness, I suppose, of the Quad?</p>
<p>? (10 char)</p>
<p>riepe isn't cut off from the rest of quad at all - since every building is basically connected to all the rest (with only a few exceptions involving a wall between buildings), it's one pretty big cohesive castle.</p>
<p>and yes, placing the 3 quad houses as first 3 choices indicates that you want them first... if you put them lower they'll be full before that choice is even polled (everyone's first choice is done, then second, than third, etc.)</p>