After my year long adventure in China, and trips to San Francisco, Chicago, and Champaign, I arrive at Philadelphia... to my relief everything has gone smoothly thus far, except I will be having orientations tomorrow, before school begins a day after. The good news is that I’ve had time (because of Labor Day weekend) to go about the city and around UPenn. Here are some photos, more may follow...
First Days at Penn
My Room (all decorated with my photography/posters/postcards)
The Washroom.
Living Room/Kitchen
Living Room/Kitchen
My room (black spot on right) from the public hallway
View of the city from the hallway
Philadelphia
View of the building across from us
Sansom Place East (My Dorm)... I live on the 5th floor
A nice building on my walk to the city
Cira Center, designed by Cesar Pelli
Philly’s City Hall: simply magnificant.
Independence Hall: Where the Declaration of Independence was signed
Franklin Court is where Benjamin Franklin used to live
Franklin’s original home demolished, now stands the building’s “ghost”
The Historic District
Society Hill, a residential development by IM Pei in the 60s
The Society Hill district is pleasantly quaint neighborhood full of very nice houses
Matt would like this Land Rover
A view of Camden, New Jersey, one of the worst neighborhoods in the US
The historic district is really nice, it reminds me of Beacon Hill in Boston
Christ Church, in the 18th century, the tallest building in the city
Ben Frankin’s tombstone: hidden discreetly at the corner of a street. It’s really touching.
Now UPenn: This is the Green, like the central quad at the U of I. The architecture building is to the left
School of Design (the architecture school is located in here)
A fine statue of UPenn’s founder, Benjamin Franklin
Locust Walk, the main thoroughfare of the campus. Not as impressive as the Quad (of UIUC nor UPenn)
The Penn Bookstore; my dorms are right behind
A view of Philly from the Bookstore
Entrance to Penn’s Quad. Sadly I wasn’t able to go in as students were moving into the college dorms inside
Ornamentation on the walls of the Quad’s College Dorm buildings
College Dorms. I’ll take some photos a later time.
The Wharton School of Business, one of the leading business schools in the US
This Wood+Zapata building contains Fresh Grocers (a supermarket), and a parking garage above
The Quad, a collection of undergrad dorms
This is probably the best place in the entire campus
It was modeled after Oxford/Cambridge (I forgot which one), it is a great place to study on a sunny day.
Look... a door labeled Phillips Brooks!
One of the entrances to the Quad
