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I'm new to this forum and have not yet seen a thread for Penn. Anyone out there joining me at Penn in the fall?
University of Pennsylvania c/o 2008
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C'mon, now!... any other future PennMedians out there? Our school kicks ass.
Likes: curriculum, folks in the admissions office, cool students, video lectures, Philly...
Dislikes: ivy league, EVERYONE will be a genius, so much pressure!
Likes: curriculum, folks in the admissions office, cool students, video lectures, Philly...
Dislikes: ivy league, EVERYONE will be a genius, so much pressure!
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PennMed said:
Haha, everyone will be a genius... They must have made a mistake when they pulled me from the waitlist! The biggest problem about the Ivy League thing is that everyone else looks at us like we're snobs. What can ya do?
Anyways, if anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Oh, and about the online lectures... I don't go to class, and I rarely watch the videos 🙂
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Just also wanted to throw myself into the fray as a rising MD/PhD-2 @ Penn. Happy to answer questions etc. especially about first year. Congratulations and welcome everyone!
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Count me in. 🙂
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I just read the lecture notes, sometimes associated books, and do the practice exams. Yes, parking in Philly sucks. Don't commute. You will be required to be there pretty much every day for one thing or another.
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Philly liquor laws are crap. You can buy 6 packs at any pizza shop, but they're ridiculously expensive (think $7+ for cheap beer). There are "beer distributors" that only sell by the case (nothing smaller) and there's only a couple of them for the whole city. They aren't badly priced, but there is a 10% liquor tax. Meanwhile, there are separate state run stores with mediocre prices and crappy selections that sell hard alcohol and wine. These are a little more widespread.
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Some of the smaller groceries along Spruce St. in Center City sell the more readily available beer varieties, at prices that didn't seem too too bad at least compared to bars. Not sure why the bigger ones don't. There's a big beer distributor near 27th and South if you're in the market by the case.
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im a penn undergrad student who is premed and i can say that philly is pretty crappy.
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congrats on penn med acceptances.
as an aside, here's a little factoid:
the c/o in this thread is used commonly on the hosptial wards to mean "complains of," "complaining of" as in:
"8 yr old female with a hx of febrile seizures px to the ED c/o fever"
of course, c/o also means "care of" as in
"please send this package to... c/o mr. sean fienes"
or
"class of" as in this post.
🙂
as an aside, here's a little factoid:
the c/o in this thread is used commonly on the hosptial wards to mean "complains of," "complaining of" as in:
"8 yr old female with a hx of febrile seizures px to the ED c/o fever"
of course, c/o also means "care of" as in
"please send this package to... c/o mr. sean fienes"
or
"class of" as in this post.
🙂
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Just moved to philly last Tuesday. I have no furniture and no internet yet (I'm sitting in the biomedical library right now), but my a/c works, so I'm happy. Is anyone in town yet? Is there anything going on? I'm trying to figure out how to keep myself busy until 8/11.
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In town, but not quite moved in yet 🙂
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If anyone needs anything just let me know. I don't have a whole lot of time, but I'm happy to share what little of things that I do have.
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I was just wondering where you guys have been? (am sick of seeing other XXXXSOM c/o 2008)
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nothingman: believed we met at the penn preview....
just came back from France (Nice and Cannes) and Spain (Barcelona). as someone who speaks neither French or Spainish, I think I did pretty well - never got lost (luckily), thanks to English and universal sign language (once found myself conversing with an old French lady for a whole 30 min. The funny thing is we weren't using the same language the whole timeaaina00 said:
).nothingman: believed we met at the penn preview....
you can cross my name off that genius list...PennMed said:
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ImmunoAnt - Yep, we did... are you in Philly at this point?
If anyone needs any advice/etc. re: where to get stuff for settling in or anything else, feel free to PM me...
Stay dry if you're in this neck of the woods! It's a typhoon out there (or as close as Philly gets to one...)
If anyone needs any advice/etc. re: where to get stuff for settling in or anything else, feel free to PM me...
Stay dry if you're in this neck of the woods! It's a typhoon out there (or as close as Philly gets to one...)
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What heppened to our thread!!! We can't let these other schools show us up! Where's the love Penn MS1s?!
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CoronaMan said:
We've got our new yahoo group to keep us busy 😀
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Grumpy Bear said:
Cool... I'm there.
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