<p>I'm visiting soon and I plan to take the campus tour..so excited!
I would love to look at the ENTIRE campus, but due to time restraints, do you think there are things i should especially see?</p>
<p>and where should I eat lunch?</p>
<p>You should definitely see Locust Walk, College Green, Smith Walk, Perelman Quadrangle, the main reading room of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, the inside of Houston Hall (especially the basement food court--beautiful, and a great place to eat lunch), the inside of Huntsman Hall (if you're interested in Wharton), the inner portion of the Quad (upper and lower)--you can't really appreciate it from the street, and the inside of the Penn Bookstore.</p>
<p>I'm sure others may chime in with some additional suggestions.</p>
<p>eat truck food. you can't go wrong with any choices. they're mostly on spruce between 34th and 38th streets.</p>
<p>definitely check out huntsman hall.</p>
<p>I've attended the information session and taken the tour twice - once as a Junior and just recently at the start of my Senior year. The places that have been mentioned in the previous posts are covered fairly well in the tour. I ate lunch with my parents in the basement food court of Houston Hall which was very nice and loaded with Penn students. The book store is huge but doesn't look any different from a regular Barnes & Nobles. However, we spent a lot of time just walking around the campus and taking everything in. It really is a beautiful campus.</p>
<p>^ Actually, the Penn Bookstore is somewhat larger than the average Barnes & Noble, but--more importantly--it's very Penn-focussed with lots of neat Penn gear to buy. :) As college bookstores go, it's a beaut.</p>
<p>Penn's new bookstore (opened in 1998 to replace the dingy 1-story POS that has since replaced with Huntsman Hall) was designed by Barnes & Noble's College Bookstore subsidiary. It is one of their flagships, and rightfully so!</p>
<p>The design is actually almost identical to that of Florida International University's bookstore (also a B&N template).</p>
<p>Either way, go visit it. It's a great place.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, everyone. I visited and it was AMAZING..everyone was so friendly and approachable and the city was beautiful at night. Penn bookstore was also worth the visit especially at night! I ate at Au Bon Pain, ha. Hopefully I'll go to Houston Hall next time.</p>
<p>Glad you liked it. Penn = awesomeness :)</p>
<p>Man, hearing all of you guys talk about it, i really want to go visit too...too bad it's so far away.</p>