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New College House: Will Penn freshmen now prefer to live here over the Quad?
Penn has broken ground on a new college house on Hill Field that looks to be pretty amazing. Per hiddencityphila.org, “The 198,000 sq ft New College House will house 350 undergrads, and like Penn’s other college houses, will have a resident faculty master, a house dean, and two fellows. Now in their 15th year at […]
You MUST watch this: Penn alum lifts house with balloons
Remember in the movie Up how the old man got his house to fly using balloons? Well, Penn alum Vin Marshall (ENG ‘00, WQHS) actually accomplished this on the new show he is hosting on the National Geographic Channel called “How Hard Can It Be?” and it premieres this Sunday October 2nd. After the jump […]
Their Chilling Documentary Debuts in Los Angeles This Week
Last year I wrote a post on two alumni who teamed up to create a very moving, “gave me the chills” film… Co-directors Michael Pertnoy’s (C’06) (left) and Michael Kleiman’s (C’06) (below left) feature documentary The Last Survivor focuses on genocide awareness, prevention, and survivor advocacy. The film follows the lives of survivors from The […]
Top 4 Penn videos that will give you the chills: #3
Yesterday’s #4 pick for my “Penn videos that will give you the chills” demonstrated a nice combination of stylized photography, use of music and special effects. As heartfelt as that video was, today’s #3 pick is even more moving. Remember that great music video featuring Nikhil Dhingra (C’10) that I posted about back in November? […]
Places On Campus I’m Ashamed To Say I’ve Never Been (VIDEOS)
More summer cleaning to do for my “Delicious Leftovers” week with the following 2 videos I’ve been hanging onto for quite some time now. (Thanks for hanging in there! I’ve got lots of fresh new stories coming up starting tomorrow!) Here is a short film of the Biopond at Penn. In all my years during […]
Awaiting Her Reunion Weekend, This Penn Alum Gives Us a Walking Campus Tour Down Memory Lane (VIDEOS)
As Laura K. Mack (C’89) prepares herself for celebrating her 20th class reunion at this weekend’s Reunion Weekend (May 15-17th), she posted some videos (see below) she took from being on campus during last year’s (2008) reunion weekend. If you haven’t been back to campus in a bit, Laura takes us for a walking tour […]
