Rant about UPENN

[Drogba]

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I summon pennquaker!

He claims only Penn is official and even though the domain is upenn.edu the school should NOT be referred to as UPenn...

HE would know wouldn´t he?

 

[seraph524]

See, I think it SHOULD be UPenn, cause whenever I say Penn around where I am, people go "Penn State?" By saying UPenn, it is unambiguous.

But then again, that makes me seem like a snob 🙁

 

[87138]

See, I think it SHOULD be UPenn, cause whenever I say Penn around where I am, people go "Penn State?" By saying UPenn, it is unambiguous.

But then again, that makes me seem like a snob 🙁

Nah it just means your friends are idiots.

😛

 

[taponthecloud]

Lyrics from "It's All About The Benjamins" Notorious BIG & Puff Daddy

And I'm livin' that, whole life, we push weight (uh-huh)
F*ck the state pen, f*ck hoes at penn state (cmon)
Listen close it's francis, the praying mantis
Attack with the mac, my left hand spit, right hand
Grip on the whip, for the smooth getaway
Playa haters get away or my lead will spray
Squeeze off til' I'm empty, don't tempt me
Only, to hell I send thee, all about the benjis

 

[seraph524]

Lyrics from "It's All About The Benjamins" Notorious BIG & Puff Daddy

And I'm livin' that, whole life, we push weight (uh-huh)
F*ck the state pen, f*ck hoes at penn state (cmon)
Listen close it's francis, the praying mantis
Attack with the mac, my left hand spit, right hand
Grip on the whip, for the smooth getaway
Playa haters get away or my lead will spray
Squeeze off til' I'm empty, don't tempt me
Only, to hell I send thee, all about the benjis

Best post of the night. Did you google penn state or did you actually remember the lyrics?

 

[taponthecloud]

Best post of the night. Did you google penn state or did you actually remember the lyrics?

no, actually whenever i hear penn state mentioned, I think of that song...

 

[1956Goldtop]

The notorious BIG, a legend

 

[Drogba]

The notorious BIG, a legend

Thread stalker!

 

[xanthomondo]

In my inbox it says that the email is sent from "UPenn Admissions"

 

[jelly476]

wow this is the longest diversion ive ever seen from a rant of mine. And you are all incredible losers to debate this. Its obviously UPenn. Anything I say is the truth.

 

[In Vino Veritas]

wow this is the longest diversion ive ever seen from a rant of mine. And you are all incredible losers to debate this. Its obviously UPenn. Anything I say is the truth.

Au contraire, my friend, I think this thread just proves the awesomness of PENN (and SDN). Instead of sympathizing with some totally ridiculous and inconsequential run-in you had with Penn admissions office, everyone here managed to turn the thread into something hilarious (though, admittedly, equally inconsequential).

 

[Textuality]

Au contraire, my friend, I think this thread just proves the awesomness of PENN (and SDN). Instead of sympathizing with some totally ridiculous and inconsequential run-in you had with Penn admissions office, everyone here managed to turn the thread into something hilarious (though, admittedly, equally inconsequential).

PENN is indeed pretty kick *** 🙂

And yay for hilarious and inconsequential tangents! Us Penn hopefuls are all about those 😉

 

[DrRocky]

Here's a rant of my own: it's Penn, not UPenn.

End rant.

their website says UPenn in several places

 

[Bacchus]

"Penn" is a legitimate nickname but it could be mistaken for the crap school that is "Penn State,"- this is the reason why many also say UPenn just to make sure everyone knows they're referring to the Ivy League school.

Penn State is one of the finest state school's in our state. I would say, without a doubt, top 2. That being said, don't knock it. No one calls Penn State, Penn. We either call it PSU or Penn State. "We are Penn State!"

 

[SoxPatriots]

http://www.pennstudentagencies.com/PSA/assets/images/not_penn_state.gif

People call it UPenn to avoid Penn State confusion, not out of arrogance or thinking Penn State is crap, but to avoid the annoying conversation of:

"Oh, how do you like Penn State?"
"Actually I go to the University of Pennsylvania"
"Oh, how do you like it?"
"It's good"

Hence, the by adding one letter "U" the conversation is two sentences shorter.

 

[87138]

Penn State is one of the finest state school's in our state. I would say, without a doubt, top 2. That being said, don't knock it. No one calls Penn State, Penn. We either call it PSU or Penn State. "We are Penn State!"

Word.

 

[87138]

their website says UPenn in several places

We've already been over this several times. Very few people outside of perhaps the administration refers to the school as UPenn. Students who actually go there call it Penn for the most part.

Don't any of you participate in/watch college sports? No one in the sports world is gonna call it "UPenn" just like no one is ever gonna call Pitt or Michigan "UPitt" or "UMich."

Ever been to the Penn Relays? They're held at The University of Pennsylvania. Trying calling them the UPenn Relays and all the fake Jamaicans there will laugh you out of the stadium.

Also, FWIW, their athletic site is www.pennathletics.com , not www.upennathletics.com .


Edit: If anyone's going to be at Penn Relays this year, maybe I'll see you there.

 

[tarheel21]

My best friend goes to Wharton and she has ALWAYS called it UPenn. I'm pretty positive a good portion of her Wharton classmates call it UPenn, too. So I don't know, maybe most of the regular undergrads call it Penn, but she has never referred to it that way to me.

So maybe there's a greater portion of people who call it UPenn then you think....

*Tarheel21

 

[87138]

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[leftmid]

34.45 😱
*my pr is only 1.58*

 

[EkLiLiaN]

interesting to see how the initial conversation of venting turn into a discussion of Penn vs. UPenn.

 

[seraph524]

interesting to see how the initial conversation of venting turn into a discussion of Penn vs. UPenn.

Dude, its obviously PennU

 

[Drogba]

Dude, its obviously PennU

Pronounced to rhyme with the school founder's name, Xenu.

 

[seraph524]

Pronounced to rhyme with the school founder's name, Xenu.

Do you want your free E-reading?

 

[j-weezy]

Edit: If anyone's going to be at Penn Relays this year, maybe I'll see you there.

I entered a lottery for tickets so we'll see....is it a lot of fun?

 

[1956Goldtop]

too bad all the e-meters broke from this random kid that came into our church 10 minutes ago.

 

[87138]

I entered a lottery for tickets so we'll see....is it a lot of fun?

Yeah it is. I have a friend who's huge into track, so he goes every year. I'm not a track nut by any standards, but I find it to be a blast.

 

[Ben62734]

No one in the sports world is gonna call it "UPenn" just like no one is ever gonna call Pitt or Michigan "UPitt" or "UMich."

Nobody would call it "Mich" either. Although their website is www.umich.edu, whereas Pitt is just www.pitt.edu. And no one in the sports world talks about Penn much anyway 😀.

Regardless, the important thing to realize here is that it is most definitely THE Ohio State University 🙄.

 

[SoxPatriots]

Nobody would call it "Mich" either. Although their website is www.umich.edu, whereas Pitt is just www.pitt.edu. And no one in the sports world talks about Penn much anyway 😀.

Regardless, the important thing to realize here is that it is most definitely THE Ohio State University 🙄.

I don't understand why all these schools pretend they came up with calling their school "THE Blah Blah University" when everyone knows Miami was the first to do it. Miami came up with calling themselves "THE U" and it's weird that everyone else is comfortable just following in their footsteps.

I didn't go to Miami, I am not a fan of Miami, and I know they currently suck at football, but you're still a follower regardless.

 

[Ben62734]

I didn't go to Miami, I am not a fan of Miami, and I know they currently suck at football, but you're still a follower regardless.

Me? Apparently the sarcasm wasn't laid on quick thick enough. I have absolutely no affiliation with OSU, or tOSU, or whatever the heck it is, outside of once dating a girl who went to Michigan and had some not-so-nice things to say about it. It just makes me roll my eyes when they do the video intros during NFL games. Clearly my own The Tufts University was the first to ever think of using the word The.

 

[Daydreamer2008]

I finally recieved my rejection letter from UPENN but I have to rant. I submitted my primary at the beginning of september. I never heard anything from UPENN about a secondary so I wrote it off. However, a week before the secondary deadline, I get a "reminder" email, telling me the secondary application is due in a week and to complete it asap. Well, I go to the login page to complete it asap and the login info they give me doesnt work. I tried again and again and I never could login, even after resetting the password twice. So I called the office and they told me their was a glitch in their computer system and they were working to fix it and would email me when I could login. Well it wasnt fixed until after the deadline so I got an extension to send in my app until 2 weeks after the deadline.

I got suspicious at this point because I felt that they would simply toss my secondary app out and pocket the money. I emailed them asking about this possibility but recieved on reply. I decided to hell with it and sent in the app if there was any chance at all of getting an interview. Now here I am, 5 months later and the only thing Ive heard is this rejection. Sorry just gotta vent the nerve they had in having me apply with no chance at all haha.

You have to be on top of everything in this process. Don't expect these schools to "baby" you when they have 456454 other applicants to deal with as well. 🙄

 

[SoxPatriots]

Me? Apparently the sarcasm wasn't laid on quick thick enough. I have absolutely no affiliation with OSU, or tOSU, or whatever the heck it is, outside of once dating a girl who went to Michigan and had some not-so-nice things to say about it. It just makes me roll my eyes when they do the video intros during NFL games. Clearly my own The Tufts University was the first to ever think of using the word The.

I guess it wasn't quite thick enough, and I didn't mean you're a follower bc I was able to see you went to The Tufts. I meant "you" as in all the losers who say THE before their college name. Just as you roll your eyes at the TV for NFL intros, so do I. And I was just pointing out it was the thugs of Miami who coined the phrase, and I think it's funny that all the other schools like to associate themselves with the criminals that used to comprise the Miami football team.