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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 […]
15 years later, these Penn alumni return to their Quad dorm rooms to find THIS (video)
Earlier this week, we saw what a 1972 Penn dorm room looked like and how little dorms rooms have evolved since. After the jump, go on a journey with four 1996 alumni who return to Penn for their 15 year reunion and hunt down their freshman dorm rooms, only to learn something significant has changed… […]
450 Pound Stainless Steel Coffer Buried in Quad – To Be Opened in 2040!
Did you know that there was a Time Capsule buried in the Quad in 1940? Who knew?! According to the American Time Capsule Database, the contents of the capsule apparently contain: President Roosevelt’s speech at the University of Pennsylvania’s bicentennial celebration Letters from each administrative officer of the university to his successor of 100 years […]
Penn’s Quad Featured in New Transformers 2 Trailer! (VIDEO)
A few people sent me tweets on my Twitter page about how the Quad appears at second 0:19 in the new Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen trailer. It’s cool to see how Penn looks in the trailer and will be even cooler to see it up on the big screen. Photo credit of Shia […]
DT Exclusive! Transformers 2 Shoots in the Quad: We Got a Picture!
Photo credit: Patrick Wolff (’09) DT correspondent Jonathan Rivera (C’10) was at Penn today (Wednesday) and dishes to DT readers on what he saw being filmed for the Transformers 2 movie and his encounter with Shia LaBeouf! “It was me and another one of my friends Laura Kelly. We stopped in front of the upper […]
Another Quad (plus more) coming to Penn!
Within 5 years, the chances of a freshman getting into the Quad are about to dramatically increase. That’s because there’s going to be 2 Quads! …Plus new parks and new retail and residential areas! And these are just some of Penn’s many exciting developments. For those of you alumni who heard about the eastward campus […]
