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092315_Penne Daily_Pennsylvanian_PRINT.pdf 1 9/23/15 11:54 AM TABLE OF CONTENTSMoving InNew College House

Finding Romance

Freshman Halls

Moving UpHousing Timeline

Strange Stories

Dorm Decor

On- or Off-Campus?

Pricing Lowdown

Abroad Gone Awry

Off the Meal Plan

Abroad Costs

Moving OutRoommate Goals

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For some upperclassmen, freshman housing was just the place they crashed after their first frat parties. But for these two couples, their first Penn homes were also the places they met their significant others.

Riepe College House:The last person College sopho-

more Aria Kovalovich expected to play matchmaker in college was her mother. But during New Student Orientation, it was Aria’s mom who first recommended College sophomore Conrad Mascarenhas as a potential boy-friend.

“Conrad actually met my mom before he met me. He thought she was his pre-major advisor,” Aria said.

Both mentors in the Riepe Col-lege House Mentorship Program, Aria and Conrad met trying to find the Class of 1920 lounge for an introduction to their residen-tial program. Throughout their first semesters at Penn, Aria and Conrad lived in the same hall and ran into each other often as a result. Their frequent run-ins eventually led to long runs along the Schuykill trail and ever longer conversations.

Throughout their second semester, Aria became ill and Conrad, like a true gentlemen, brought her Wawa in her t ime of need. M e a n w h i l e , Conrad was busy pledging Sigma Nu and the two had a chance to bond over the con f us ion

that often accompanies students as they maneuver their way through freshman year.

“We would have all these semi-philosophical talks on the roof of Riepe, endlessly over-analyzing things and trying to figure out Penn, freshman year and everything else, it was pretty funny,” Aria said.

Aria and Conrad also had Biol-ogy 101 together and would often grab breakfast in McClelland before going to class.

“We are just really good com-panions for one another, and being around him now is just as comforting as it was when we were just two friends in Riepe trying to figure out freshman year,” Aria said.

Hill College House:Before Engineering sopho-

mores Emily Pugh and Ryan Draper began dating, they con-fused each other for different people they’d met during NSO. Now they’ve b e e n d a t i n g f o r

over a year and are still going strong.

“Living in Hill, I think it gave us the opportunity to become friends organically before there was any romantic interest,” Pugh said.

As they tell the story, the two began connecting a few months into school, in part because they were living in close quarters in the 5th floor purple suite of Hill College House. Due to the fact that there was no air condi-tioning in Hill, their hall mates were forced out of their rooms and into common area, where they bonded over their shared misery. At all hours of the day, they could be found spending time in the lounges, socializing, and eating meals together in the dining hall just a few floors below their dorm rooms.

“The foundation of friendship blossomed into what seemed to be an interest on both sides,” Pugh said.

After a few months of bond-ing over shared interests such as movies on weeknights and fraternity parties on weekends, Emily and Ryan’s relationship began to evolve, much to the de-light of their Hill hall mates.

Although they no longer live together on the same hall or even in the same building, they see each other frequently and

often travel between their rooms in Harnwell and

Gregory.

Freshman year can bring more than just friends, classes and parties

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Engineering sophomores Emily Pugh and Ryan Draper lived in the purple suite on the fifth floor of Hill, and have been in a relationship for over a year.

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Experiencing New Student Ori-entation is like drinking from a hire hose for many freshmen, and not just because some consume more alcohol than their bodies can handle. Lonely new students form early friendships with their room-mates and hall mates, and bond over shared new experiences. Many of these relationships fade — but some lucky halls stand the test of time.

Ware College House, Butcher 3rd Floor:

Halls that drink together, stay together. But halls that watch Harry Potter every Thursday stay even closer. Engineering sopho-more Gwen Eastaughchecked says that even after each movie ended, dozens of friends would sit around and debate about nihilism and Ni-etzsche.

The hall didn’t restrict their ac-tivities to philosophizing about Harry Potter. Wharton and Engi-neering sophomore Chris Painter coordinated a Super Smash Bros. tournament that involved games three days a week. split sentence into twoResident Advisor and 2015 Engineering graduate Amit Pujari watched movies with the hall, took them to the beach and biked around Philadelphia with them. In De-cember, Painter recalls dressing up as Santa Claus for Christmas and

giving his hall mates gifts as they sat on his lap.

“We celebrated birthdays and we had one ceremony where someone would wear this one crown, and then we’d blindfold them, wrap them in a toga and knight them,” Painter said. The hall even went so far as throw their own formal at Iztacci-huatl nameat the end of the year.

The hall remains close a year later; just this past fall break some of the hall-mates vacationed to-gether in the Catskills.

Kings Court English College House, 3rd Floor:

Wharton sophomore Christian O’Conner couldn’t take his un-air conditioned room anymore. So he sat down in the hallway outside his room. Within minutes, he was debating foreign policy with some newfound friends. Days later, they played drunk Mario Kart together — and lifelong friendships were sealed.

“You would literally come back from the worst day of classes and you’d find the entire hall sitting on the floor,” said College sophomore Helen Fetaw, whose birthday the hall recently celebrated together. “We’d sit there for hours and talk about our life’s problems.”

One night Fetaw remembers an intoxicated hall mate coming home with a lobster he’d taken from Han Dynasty, convinced it was a fake.

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mates, half still live together a year later. Now sophomores, the friends get together for dinner and hang out in each other’s apartments as if they all still lived in the same hall — and play drunk Mario Kart for old time’s sake.

Hill College House, 3rd Floor, Purple Suite:

Most Saturday nights, the hall mates of Hill 3rd Floor Purple awaited a single GroupMe text: “Turndown?” And with that, a dozen friends would gather in the hall lounge, scavenge for food and hang out. Less then twelve hours later, when the “Brunch?” text came through, they’d head down three

floors to get breakfast.“We bonded a lot at the beginning

of freshman year. There was this one kid from our hall who would look at people and give them a new name,” Engineering sophomore Shawn Srolovitz said. College sophomore Lauren Murski was renamed Taylor, for example, and Nursing sophomore Erin Hartman was renamed Annie.checked all names

During NSO, the hall went out first in groups of 15 and later in packs of 30 to 40. “It was not uncommon to come home and find several people in my bed,” Srolovitz said.

But the real reason the hall became close has nothing to do with names or parties according

to Engineering sophomore Keen Butcher, from Houstonremoved texas. “The reason why we’re close is because we’re from Texas. You can’t be close without Texas,” he said.

While Murski, whose ranch in Dallas the hall plans to visit later this year, agreed, state pride was cer-tainly a point of contention. “Don’t put that in the article. Don’t give them the satisfaction that Texas is better,” Srolovitz, who is from New Jersey, said.

For Hill 3rd Floor Purple, pride extended far beyond state rivalry. The group placed bets on Eagles – Cowboys football games and bought purple Fling tanks to represent the hall.

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STANDING THE TEST OF TIME

The third floor of Butcher in Ware College House was close throughout freshman year, and reunited as sophomores.

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DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?Film polled you to fi nd out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon movie fi xes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN

Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the

bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.

But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes

entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t

you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?

While 75% of us watch mov-ies online, nearly 50% pay for it. I hear Horrible Bosses — a new release on iTunes — is hys-

terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.

The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-

es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.

Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

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$153,701>> Total amount of money spent in movie theaters* by Penn students each semester

$196,136>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used iTunes*

$295,344>> Total amount of money spent watching online, if all people who paid for online services used Netflix*

*$12.50/ticket at the Rave*$3.99 to rent a movie on iTunes*$7.99/month on Netflix

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WHEN TO APPLY FORHOUSING

Residential Programs

Intra-house Selection

Inter-house Selection

Room Changes The Radian and Domus

When it comes to housing, it’s important to keep up with the complicated timeline of important dates. There are 12 college houses on campus, all with the same system for applying — Ware, Fisher-Hassenfeld, Riepe, Rodin, Harnwell, Harrison, Hill, Kings Court English, DuBois, Gregory, Stouffer and Sansom Place.

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Campus Apartments

Students interested in residential programs within the 12 college houses can submit applications between Jan. 15 and Jan. 20, and will hear back by Jan. 30.

Students applying to live within their current college house must apply by 5 p.m. on Feb. 4. Priority room se-lection begins Feb. 9 and general room selection begins Feb. 11.

Student who wish to transfer to a different college house, either from off-campus or from their current college house, have different deadlines. The deadline for students applying to transfer into a new college house is Feb. 18. Priority room selection begins Feb. 23 and ends on Feb. 25, while general room selection begins Feb. 25 and ends on Feb. 26.

For students looking to switch rooms within their college house, forms open on March 2 and close on March 31.

Students interested in living off-campus do not have strict deadlines — though most houses and apartments tend to fill up-quickly after January.

For Campus Apar t-ments, one of the main providers of off-campus housing, listings become available on October 15th for larger units with four or more bedrooms, and at the end of November for smaller units. All units are first come, first serve, and students are encouraged to reach out immediately when they become avail-able.

The Radian and Domus are two popular off-campus housing options. While there is no official deadline for either complex, applications are available for Domus and the Radian in November.

Students intending to live in sorority or fraternity housing can expect to apply for housing early spring semester.

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THE LATEST IN DORM DECOR

WHEN HOUSING GETS WEIRDFive stories of Penn students whose off-campus living arrangements came with a surprise

Students who move into off-cam-pus residences at Penn never know what they might find..

Just your average hole in the wall:

2015 College graduate Brianna Gardner was part of a lineage of residents with a tradition of kicking holes into the wall of their house while swing dancing. The tradition was passed on through the gen-erations when “bigs” taught their “littles” how to do the damage. One night, when the police came to shut down their party, Gardner and her friends taught the cops how to swing dance, and then were allowed to con-tinue their festivities.

Diving into a new home:College sophomore Rebecca

Composto was surprised when she moved into her off-campus home — formerly owned by members of the men’s swim team — to find a life-size diving board in the living room. Additionally, in the house’s fridge, the boys left a cinderblock that they used to store bottles of beer.

Floored by the dirt:When College senior Ashley

Terry moved into her room in Penn’s Baltimore Avenue “Band House,” she decided to clean the seemingly brown-colored floor of her room. After some light sponging, she learned that the floor wasn’t brown at all — it was cream-colored, but had been languishing in dirt for so long that it actually appeared brown.

Locked into your housing:For Nursing juniors Alyssa Young

and Jackie Nikpour, the decision to sublet a single room from a a house

previously inhabited by members of Penn’s men lacrosse team didn’t seem like a dangerous one. But when they arrived, they found that there were six inches missing off the bottom back door — just enough for someone to crawl through — not to mention that the basement was filled with drawings on the walls and could be locked from the outside.

An unwelcome un-dergarment:

When College sophomore Laura Kuder returned to the room she had sublet to an acquaintance over the summer, she moved some furniture around only to find an unwelcome surprise — lying behind the bed was a mysterious black thong, apparently left there by the previous occupant. The next morning, the thong went into a plastic bag and out the door with the trash.

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Some residencies in University City are less refined than others, including a Baltimore Avenue room whose floor was layered with dirt.

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Penn students' rooms allow them to show off their artistic flair

College freshman Lauren O'Mara's bedroom in the Quad features vibrant bedding and photographs.LIZZY MACHIELSE | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Wharton freshman Jennifer Tran's and Nursing freshman Morgan Shick's Hill dorm.

VANESSA WEIR | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERNursing freshman Anny Zhuo's bedroom in Mayer College House.

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Pros1. The amazing house parties and pre-games you and your roomies can finally host2. Being automatically 48% cooler than you were last year3. Closer to parties, Smokes, Allegros and (for the next morning) Honest Toms4. Getting real world experience paying bills and rent5. Instacart-ing alcohol right to your apartment

Cons1. Cleaning up after that amazing house party you had2. Trying to find a normal subletter for the summer3. Developing a close relationship with your Netflix account because it’s too much of a hassle to go meet up with people4. Paying bills and rent

The lowdown: Living off campus, you’ll find out that real life hits you quickly. Go off-campus if you have a solid group and are willing to put in the extra effort — you’ll spend a lot more time walking and shopping for a gently-used couch.

SHOULD YOU LIVE ON-CAMPUS? You might already be trying to decide whether or not to stay on-campus next year. The Daily Pennsylvanian breaks down the pros and cons to help you decide:

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LOWDOWN ON OFF AND ON-CAMPUS The most expensive room and the cheapest room at Penn are both in Sansom Place West

ON-CAMPUSPros:1. Close proximity to food, especially the Bridge Café omelet bar2. Being able to call maintenance when you have a room malfunction3. N ever having to walk more than ten minutes to get anywhere relevant4. Not having to deal with subletters5. Libraries and rooftop lounges will motivate you to hit the books instead of the snooze button. Again.

Cons:1. The closest food option is Commons2. Maintenance probably won’t show up3. Narc-y RAs and GAs that bust you for alcohol4. Awkward eye-contact on your elevator rides and being five minutes late for ev-erything

The lowdown: Staying on campus for sophomore year is the lowest-effort and most convenient option.

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pricing for on- and off-campus hous-ing.

High Rises:The high rises range from single

bedroom apartments to four bed-room quads, with every suite having its own bathroom. College House

residences are only added only available during the academic year, meaning that you can only live in your room approximately nine months out of the year.

As of the 2015-16 academic year, the lowest-priced residences are two bedroom apartments without

kitchens or living rooms, and three bedroom quads, which each cost $4,531 per semester per occupant. Fitting four people into three bed-rooms saves $1,367 per semester, compared to having a four bedroom apartment at $5,878 per semester.

The most expensive Hamilton

Village residence is a single bed-room apartment that includes a kitchen and living room, priced at $6,521 per semester.

Other College Houses:Rooms at Gregory College House

and W.E.B. Du Bois College House range from $4,531 to $5,336 per semester, while rooms at Stouffer College House range from $4,272 to $5,878.

Sansom Place West is generally the least expensive place to live, with a three bedroom apartment costing only $3,826 per semester per resident. But the single most expen-sive student residence on-campus is in the same building: a single apart-ment with private kitchen and living room for $7,336 a semester.

Campus Apartments: Campus Apartments offers a va-

riety of houses and apartments for leases that range in rent prices.

A studio apartment at 39th and Pine streets is listing for $795 per month, while a one bedroom/one bathroom place starts at $945.

A one bedroom/one bathroom apartment typically ranges from $810 to $1,265 per month, a two bedroom/one bathroom from $1,340 to $1,625 and a three bed-room/one bathroom from $1,275 to $1,895.

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A typical cloudy day on Leith Walk in Edinburgh, Scotland from the window of College junior Luke Barbour.

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The Eiffel Tower is visible from the window of College junior Giulia Imholte's apartment in Paris, France.

COURTESY OF GIULIA IMHOLTE College junior Vidya Daryanani has a view of the waterfront in Stockholm, Sweden.

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College junior Caroline Wallace's apartment in Rabat, Morocco is located near a train line and the neighborhood mosque.

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College junior Jamie Brensilber had just arrived in Paris when she was met with a list of rules her 80-year-old host mother had prepared for her. In the mornings, she would only be able to shower between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. She was not to touch the washing machine. She should not interrupt her host mother’s favorite TV show.

During dinner, her host mother would simply sit at the table and watch her eat. One day, Brensilber came home from class to find her underwear air-drying in the shower while her host mother had guests over.

Three weeks after Brensilber’s program started, she moved out.

Brensilber’s story is not unique. For many students studying abroad, difficulties adjusting to their homestays is a reality.

Penn Abroad Associate Director Rochelle Keesler said that approximately 30 of Penn Abroad-approved study abroad pro-grams offer the option of living with a host family.

Though Keesler also noted that most programs use question-naires to match prospective students with host families, she said in an email that there are cases where “an issue simply can’t be resolved through better communication,” and in those situations, stu-dents are typically placed with another host family.

For Brensilber, who is a student at the Co-lumbia in Paris at Reid Hall program — a program co-sponsored by Penn — she found that she “got off on the wrong foot,” with her host mother.

She described the first few weeks of living there as very “uncomfortable.” Once they started on the wrong foot, Brensilber said, she found that she couldn’t find a way to get back on the “right foot.”

While Brensilber has been one of only a few people on her study abroad program to transfer homestays this semester, Acting Director of the Columbia in Paris program Lindsey Schram said that some issues with host families arise every year.

“We do our best to make sure everybody is happy and com-fortable with the host family we pair them with, but the reality is sometimes it just doesn’t work,” Schram said. “One thing we will never do is leave a student somewhere they aren’t happy.”

Brensilber said that she started off by talking to Schram and other Columbia in Paris directors before it became clear that moving was the best option. Once she had decided she wanted to be placed with a new host family, however, Brensilber said that she “definitely” felt like she had to convince the program directors.

“I really had to say over and over again that this was what I wanted and that I didn’t feel like I could be happy staying there,” she said.

Though students like Brensilber are given the opportunity to move, Schram said that students are encouraged to try to work things out as much as possible with their host families.

“This isn’t an easy situation for anybody. Some awkward-ness and uncomfortableness is inevitable,” Schram said. “We encourage our students to talk to their host families and talk to us if things come up.”

“Our one requirement for the program is that students have to try living with their host family for a little bit before we will allow them to move,” Schram added.

So far this semester, Schram said that there have been ap-proximately two “problems” to the point where students had to switch host families and two “half problems” that were re-solved through other means.

Keesler echoed Schram’s sentiments, saying that most issues with host families stem simply from a difference of culture. “For instance, in most cultures resources are much more limited, so something as little as leaving a light on in an unoc-cupied room may upset a host,” she said.

Generally, students dealing with issues in their homestays are advised to talk to their on-site staff, Keesler said.

While Schram did say that students are generally discour-aged from moving, she said she has noticed that the Columbia in Paris program specifically has started moving students much earlier than they used to.

“We aren’t sitting on problems as long as we have in the past,” she said. “We’ve found that after a certain point, no amount of waiting or negotiating or talking is going to fix the problem.”

But while Brensilber’s issues with her home-stay are by no means unique, Schram said she found that most students had overwhelmingly positive things to say about their experiences living with a host family.

“I think the important thing to remem-ber is perspective,” Schram said. “Jamie had a problem and needed to move, but we have more than 50 other students on this program living with host families and the vast major-ity of them have been having really wonderful experiences.”

The trend of good homestay experiences is reflected in other programs as well.

College and Wharton junior Cora Neumann is studying in St. Petersburg, Russia this se-mester, and said the vast majority of students

on her program have had positive experiences with their host families.

“A few issues have come up because few families speak any English and some of the students don’t speak that much Rus-sian, but that’s getting better,” she said. Of her own family, Neumann raved about spending time with them during dinner and her host mother’s excellent cooking.

College and Wharton junior Tabong Kima agreed with Neumann, discussing how his program, in Aix-en-Provence, France, which emphasizes cultural immersion, really encour-ages students to work through issues or tensions with their host families.

Kima similarly had a positive experience with his host family, an older couple with grown children and a dog he de-scribed as “one of the cutest things on this earth.”

Schram has dealt with years of students moving through host families, and for her, it is an experience integral to the process of studying abroad.

“It’s one of the scariest things, I think, about studying abroad,” she said. “But time and time again, I find that it’s the thing students come back to and say that it was the best decision they made while here.”

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Five alternative meal plans for upperclassmen

Although we feel bittersweet about leaving behind Commons and its assortments of meats, pastries, critters and vermin, it’s time to say hello to a new meal plan, a new diet and a new life. Whether you’re staying healthy or just barely staying alive, you’ll want some advice on how to deal with food as an adult.

Eating Healthy (or the “Coconut water is a great alternative to soda”) Plan:

If you’re brave and willing, there’s the option of a healthy diet plan. The closest on-cam-pus healthy dining options are HipCityVeg, Hai Street Kitchen or Sweetgreen for ap-petizing and nearby healthy food. For reputable food trucks, see Magic Carpet and the fruit truck at 36th and Spruce streets. Also, buy some lightly salted mixed nuts and dried fruit chips for snacking pur-poses. It’s important to always carry water around, though you should be doing that anyway because hydration is sexy (tip: the best water is found in Hous-ton; gotta love that #filter).

Cooking for Yourself (or the “Cooking for 6 weeks before giving up entirely”) Plan:

Familiarize yourself with Fresh Grocers and Trader Joe’s. Stock up on veggies that are both long-lasting and versa-tile. If you’re living in the High

Rises, buy a dishrack, some spices (salt, pepper, garlic, basil for starters), butteroxf and cooking oil. Usually, beef and chicken can be used in a variety of ways, from salad medleys to just straight up grilling and sauteing. If you’re a vegetar-ian, tofu can be baked, broiled or braised. Make sure you’ve got enough different knives for the different cooking purposes, otherwise you’ll end up cut-ting your tomatoes with a steak knife instead of a serrated knife like a goddamn imbecile.

Taking 6 Classes (or the “Caffeine is 50% of my diet”) Plan:

So you’re a busy, ambitious, overactive and underfed col-lege student. If you’re not into sitting back and smelling the roses, look into an “On The Go” meal plan. This consists of getting your own tumbler mug for $10 to $15, eating celery sticks and stocking up on Go-Gurt (the word “go” is literally in the name). Whether you’re rushing from Huntsman or Van Pelt, you’re bound to run into some food trucks on Spruce: MexiPhilly, Lyn’s, and a but-tload of Halal food trucks are all in walking distance from campus.

Fine Dining (or the “Designated Food Photographer”) Plan:

So you’ve got some Insta-gram followers to appease. With the meal plan out of your way, you can finally go take aesthetic shots of brunch to show how you’re both carefree

and creative. For brunch, head over to Sabrina’s, Local 44, Green Eggs Café. For sweets, look to Lil’ Pop Shop, Lil Baby’s and Yogorino. For a scenic Fall coffee shop expe-rience, go to Honest Tom’s, Bodhi Coffee, Elixir Coffee Roasters or Reed’s Coffee and Tea House, as long as you stock up on enough Septa tokens for the ride.

My body is a urinal (or the “I belong with the sewer people”) Plan:

Start with the classics like Easy Mac and Cup Noodle Ramen. Then quickly devolve into gorging on the frozen peas you use as substitution for ice cubes (it’s like paying for un-drinkable tap water damn it). To prevent your dorm from car-rying the scent of day-old pizza

and cheesy fries, offer up your kitchen for bake sale cooking so it can smell like cookies most of the time. If you want to be classy, mix Franzia with diet coke and bring it to class in a hydration pack, because wine in a backpack is fancy and convenient. Additionally, you’ll quickly learn that cornflakes and vodka can sustain a living human being for at least a day or two — but don’t push it.

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For thousands of college students, studying abroad is a highlight of their undergraduate education. Each year, Penn sends over 600 students to spend a semester or two outside the United States, according to the Penn Abroad website.

At home, Penn students enjoy all that Philadelphia has to offer at a comparatively low cost of living. Overseas, however, such comforts may not always be so affordable. These are the five most and least af-fordable places out of the QS Best Cities for Students index of 2015. The higher the affordability rank-ing, the more affordable the city.

Most Affordable:

No. 1: TaipeiAffordability ranking: 83.0/100

A symbol of Taiwan’s economic rise, Taipei boasts a vibrant urban center at the heart of one of Asia’s strongest economies. Taipei is home to a number of top-tier Taiwanese universities, including the presti-gious National Taiwan University. Baseball and basketball are fairly popular among residents. Taipei Metro, one of the costliest public transportation networks ever built, more than adequately fulfills the

needs of even the most frequent SEPTA riders.

No. 2: Mexico CityAffordability ranking: 83.0/100

Since its days as the political center of the Aztecs, Mexico City has been a diverse cultural and eco-nomic hub, and still bears traces of both its Aztec and Spanish roots. American students studying in Mexico City can spend their free time in one of the city’s many art museums, shop in its traditional fixed markets or sample cuisines from every region of the country.

No. 3: BerlinAffordability ranking 74.0/100

As capital of one of modern Eu-rope’s wealthiest and most powerful countries, Berlin is filled with op-portunities. Hundreds of museums, monuments, concert halls and nightlife venues are packed within the bustling city, while its location on the Autobahn highway places adventurous students within easy reach of every other part of Ger-many.

No. 4: Vienna, AustriaAffordability ranking: 74.0/100

With its elegant palaces, tree-lined promenades and colorful balls, Vienna still bears traces of its days as a center of the Habsburg dy-nasty. The city that was once home to Sigmund Freud and Beethoven

is filled with opportunities for in-tellectual and cultural discovery. American students can study in a Viennese cafe, tour the city’s famous museums or attend a grand ball in one of Vienna’s many sur-viving palaces. Dieters beware, as the Viennese are notorious for their contagious love of cake.

No. 5: Munich, GermanyAffordability ranking: 72.0/100

Nestled among the Bavarian Alps, Munich has long been a center of European learning and scholar-ship. Its highly-regarded Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Munich is famous for its love of beer, and its beer garden culture is one of the best on the con-tinent (most Munich beer gardens let you bring your own food). Munich is also the birthplace of the Okto-berfest, balancing the city’s strong Catholic influences with nighttime carnivals for two weeks.

Least Affordable:

No. 1: LondonAffordability ranking: 28.0/100

Unsurprisingly, the notoriously pricey British capital tops the list of costliest study-abroad destinations. London rents are some of the high-est in the world, while an increasing influx of wealth has driven up living costs all over Greater London. The

city itself is home to nearly a dozen prestigious educational institu-tions, including University College London, King’s College London, the London School of Economics and most of Britain’s highest-ranked medical schools.

No. 2: Stockholm, SwedenAffordability ranking: 31.0/100

Sweden’s capital is consid-ered one of the best places to live in Europe, as well as one of the most expensive. The city is home to numerous banks and European corporate headquarters, as well as many tech companies like IBM and Ericcson. Expect to pay a lot for apartment prices though — they don’t come cheap.

No. 3: Copenhagen, DenmarkAffordability ranking: 33.0/100

There are many reasons why so many social scientists compare their countries to Denmark, but cheap rent is not one of them. The Danish capital boasts one of the highest standards of living in the world, but is still lagging in affordability. Copenhagen is home to hundreds of world-class museums and restau-rants, as well as an active football club, while its large financial district places it among Europe’s economic powerhouses.

No. 4: Auckland, New ZealandAffordability ranking: 36.0/100

The capital of New Zealand is considered by various rankings as one of the most livable cities in the world. It is also one of the most ex-pensive, with Auckland office space and housing among the priciest in the South Pacific. Many interna-tional corporations have regional offices in downtown Auckland, making it an excellent place for students to simultaneously pursue international internships.

No. 5: Sydney, AustraliaAffordability ranking: 36.0/100

Situated on the Pacific coast, Sydney is easily one of the most ex-pensive cities in the world. It makes up for it, though, with some of the Southern Hemisphere’s most recog-nizable tourist attractions, such as the Sydney Opera House and Bondi Beach. Rugby, sailing and soccer are all popular pastimes. Two of Australia’s elite Group of Eight universities, the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney, are also in the city.

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While graduating from Penn means leaving your dorm room behind, that doesn’t mean that you have to leave your roommates as well. From Penn to New York, San Francisco to Mountain View, these Penn alumni decided to room with their undergraduate roommates even after leaving campus for good.

For 2011 Penn graduates Tif-fany Zhou, Kasey Ma and Kristy Kao, and 2012 graduate Summer Yuan, living together in New York after graduation was a no-brainer. All four of the girls were friends, having met through their sorority, Sigma Psi Zeta. Zhou roomed with Ma and Yuan during her sopho-more year in Harrison College House, and lived with Kao during her senior year in Rodin.

“We were all very close, so we spent tons of time in each other’s apartments,” Zhou said.

Once they realized that they

were all going to be living in the city, it made perfect sense for them to live together.

“I knew I would be in New York City after my junior year internship, and Kasey and Kristy had always wanted to move to New York. Summer decided to look for jobs there after she accompanied me on an apartment-hunting trip,” Zhou said, “Once we realized we were all

going to be in the city, we started looking for housing together.”

2015 Penn graduates Vini Sag-gurti and Nisha Desai roomed together their freshman and sophomore years, first in Fisher Hassenfeld and then in Rodin. They met each other through their older sisters, and decided to be room-mates freshman year.

“We both didn’t want completely

random roommates, so we just went for it after a ton of Facebook stalk-ing,” Desai said.

They split because Saggurti wanted to live in the Radian, while Desai wanted to stay in Rodin. The duo was reunited post graduation, having both received job offers in San Francisco.

“I think we both secretly hoped we would end up in the same city so we could room together,” Desai said.

“It wasn’t even a decision we had to make,” Saggurti added. “We knew that if we lived together in the same city, we’d room together.”

2015 Penn grads Lewis Ellis and Max Scheiber lived in the Lambda Chi Alpha chapter house during their junior and senior years. Since they were both interested in soft-ware engineering and both received job offers before senior year, living together was an easy decision for the two friends.

“We knew that we were com-patible housemates with shared interests, so there was little down-side risk. We also both work in Mountain View and wanted to live within walking distance of the office,” Scheiber said.

But living with your undergradu-ate roommate doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a continuation of col-lege life.

“The biggest difference, besides having substantially fewer people living here than in the chapter house, is that we can actually relax after work. We’d come home from school, sit down on the couch, and do homework for hours. Now, we come home from work and social-ize,” Scheiber said.

So, what’s the verdict on living with your Penn roommate? Ac-cording to these alums, if you like your roommate now, it’s a great idea. “I’d definitely recommend living with a Penn roommate. Real life is lonelier than college because you’re not surrounded by hundreds of your friends at all times, so it’s good to have someone you’re really close with,” Zhou said. “It also made making friends in the city easier because we would meet all of each other’s new friends.”

Another longtime roommate pair agreed.

“It’s helped me feel a lot less lonely since coming out here so I definitely recommend it,” Desai said.

Ultimate roommate goals post-grad

A look at Penn students who live with their college roommates beyond graduationISABEL KIMStaff Reporter

2015 graduates Vini Saggurti and Nisha Desai were roommates in college and are continuing to live together after graduation.

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What was the last thing you purchased at Wawa?A. Hoagies all the way. Have you heard of #hoagiefest??B. Coffee: small, black.C. Fiji waterD. Mac n’ cheese, three chicken fingers, a Mountain Dew and a stolen donutE. A cheese and pepperoni pack for a lil’ study snack

What did you do for Fall Break?A. Jersey Shore BABYY!! I like, love cold beachesB. Road tripped to Maine, rocked my hiking boots (so supportive!) and experienced natureC. Oktoberfest (in Germany) (like the real one) (like with my bffs who are abroad)D. Lake Placid with my bitches and a bottle of roséE. Snapped pictures of my dog and cuddles with the HS besties #5ever

What do you do when you go out?A. SMOKEEESSSSSSS!!!B. Union Transfer, then chilled out at a friend’s house with a coupla

beersC. Hop Sing, the bartender knows meD. Marathon Grill happy hour, then Club HarvestE. Netflix and chill with myself and a bottle of moscato

How do you take your coffee?A. With a generous swig of WaWa’s hazelnut creamerB. Counter Culture, blackC. I only drink espressoD. With pumpkin spice and whipped cream, preferably in latte form and a fall-themed Sbux doodle cupE. I have a Keurig and usually just add a little milk, but if I’m feeling fancy then maybe some hot cocoa mix!

Are you cold right now?A. Yes, F the Locust wind tunnelB. Yes, my Patagonia quarter zip is not enough for Mother Nature’s wrath todayC. Nah, you just gotta layer it upD. No, I’m wearing my Canada GooseE. No, I stole my mom’s sweater and it’s soooo cozy

What did you last

Instagram?A. Spruce Street Harbor Park #christmaslights #hangingoutB. Selfie right before my radio show, gotta promoteC. #TBT to when I was abroad in Paris, take me backD. Gotta love a good West Philly sunset, I even went to the FroGro roof for that ishE. Birthday picstitch for the bro, love you Aaron!

Can you drive?A. No, I just love the smell of a good Septa stationB. I usually bike or UberC. I learned on a stick shiftD. Yaaaaaas road trip!!E. Yes my Honda Odyssey Mini-van is named Claudia

How are you going to meet your soulmate?A. Made in America, I will sit on their shoulders at Queen BeyB. On the Pacific Crest Trail, maybe we’ll share a campfireC. We’re going to hook up in a hostel and stay in touch via

postcardsD. HingeE. I’m pretty into some people at my old church, so we’ll see where that goes

What’s your spirit animal?A. SquirrelB. BearC. UnicornD. Marnie the DogE. My cat

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Mostly Ds: You’ll live on the East Coast. New York, most likely. Or Boston, DC, your call. The sea-sons will keep on changing and you will keep complaining about all of them.

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Pros of living in D.C.:1. If you’re going to be pursuing further studies or research in Wash-ington, D.C., you’re in luck, as it’s home to the Library of Congress, the largest library in the U.S. by volumes held.2. Forbes mentioned D.C. as one of the 9 best cities for biking to work — boasting the “second largest percentage of bike commuters among the largest 70 U.S. cities.”

Cons of living in D.C.:1. Like New York, D.C. has terribly cold winters and uncomfortably hot and humid summers.2. Not only is the area prone to hurricanes, but also to flooding — a result of a geological phenomenon called “forebulge collapse,” accord-ing to the International Business Times, which is making the capital literally sink.

Pros of living in New York:1. If you’re into fine dining, this will please you: New York City has the most Michelin-rated restaurants out of these four cities — just this

September, a record 76 restaurants in New York earned Michelin Stars.2. As if the nightlife in New York wasn’t awesome enough, the city boasts the latest ‘last call’ time for bars out of the four cities: 4 a.m.

Cons of living in New York:1. As of Aug. 2015, Rent Jungle declared New York to be the most expensive to live in of the four cities, at $3,642 a month on average.

Pros of living in Philly:1. Philadelphia takes the cake for lowest average cost of rent among the four cities, at $1,429 a month within 10 miles of the city, according to Rent Jungle. It also has the relative lowest cost of groceries, according to Numbeo.2. With Megabus, a trip from Philly to New York takes about two hours and a trip from Philly to D.C. takes about 3 hours.3. You can easily drop by Penn to reminisce and to visit old professors and friends who haven’t graduated.

Cons of living in Philly:1. Subway transit leaves some areas of the city largely inaccessible. Philly only has two major subway lines: the Market-Frankford, which runs east-west, and the Broad Street Line, which runs north-south.

Pros of living in San Francisco:1. According to a new study commissioned by Campbell Soup Com-pany and Sperling’s Best Places, San Francisco ranks as the number two organic-eating city in the United States right behind Portland. Bye bye food trucks, hello fresh kale.2. San Fran is a dream come true for the active types — with outdoor pastimes like surfing, hiking, snowboarding and sailing just a quick car or train ride away.3. For those looking to finally escape the cold Philly winters, San Fran is a good fit with mild weather all year around — on average, San Fran temperatures drop to just 57 degrees even during its coldest month, Jan-uary, according to U.S. climate data.

Cons of living in San Francisco:1. The average cost of groceries is highest in San Fran compared to the other three cities. According to Numbeo, a website comparing cost-of-living across cities, a loaf of white bread and gallon of milk cost $9.25 on average in San Fran compared to Philly, where the cost is lowest and the same bread and milk cost $6.09.2. Fog is such a common weather phenomenon in San Francisco (es-pecially during June, July and “Fogust”) that there’s a twitter account dedicated to it: @KarlTheFog

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Pros and cons of popular post-grad citiesWith the job search heating up for most seniors, the decision about where to live next year has come front and center. Here’s a guide to help seniors compare the perks and pits of living in the post-grad hotspots.EUNICE LIMStaff Reporter

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