For many students, attending college marks the first time away from home, the first time managing a budget, even the first time doing laundry. New spaces, new classes, new friends, new routines. This year, its not just new for the freshmen. For many, late August will mark their first return to campus since March 2019. In anticipation of Move-In, Penn Today asked six undergraduate students in the Philadelphia area this summer to divulge their favorite spots.
Ariana Jimnez found her niche on an exploratory walk, while Steven Chen and Quinn Gruber found theirs through special interests, and Lucas Monroe gravitates to athletic history. Francisco Barrera chose a study spaceand where he goes to decompress. Dorms, libraries, and outside spaces are all on the list. Morgan Bacon is most looking forward to Hey Day to kick off this semester. Its nerve-wracking to be declared a senior, but also very exciting. Ive enjoyed my time at Penn so much, she says. I can't wait to reconnect with my friends and just hang out on the grass.
Steven Chens first engagement with Penn was through the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and as aPenn Program for Public Service intern, the biology major from Warminster, Pennsylvania now works through Netter Centers OurSpace to host weekly meetings with a group of West Philadelphia and Penn students at the LGBT Center, one of his favorite campus spots. Its a very accepting space, Chen says, a place for them to have fun and express themselves.
The sophomore is currently collaborating with the LGBT Center and the Netter Center to develop aqueer sexual health education program that utilizes peer-assisted learning. A pre-med student, Chen is interested in providing health care access to queer people and people of color. You have to be healthy to pursue your other dreams, he says. Health is the foundation.
I like a good puzzle or challenge, says Ariana Jimnez, who plans to investigate white-collar crime as an FBI agent. This requires business-industry experience, so the sophomore from Plainfield, Illinois is enrolled in the Wharton School, concentrating on finance and social impact.
She passed the benches in the engineering quad on a walk one day, and which has since become a favorite place to chill and listen to music, Jimnez says. Currently Im bingeing Taylor Swift before her new album comes out.
Jimnez is looking forward to having the opportunity to engage with people face-to-face this fall, she says. Shes also looking forward to living in New College House West. You already know Im going to be exploring that as soon as I get in there, she says. While on routine walks, Im always trying to look in to see if it looks cool, Jimnez says. And it does look cool.
Francisco Barrera of Miami, Florida is really interested in the energy problem. Barrera wants to part of the solution, so he applied to Penns Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research, where the senior is studying engineering and physics. Barrera spent his summer doing research with Deep Jariwala of the Device Research and Engineering Laboratory, looking into new materials and new configurations for maximizing light absorbance and efficiency for the next generation of solar cells, he says.
Barreras favorite place to study is the Fisher Fine Arts Library. Im always surrounded by STEM. The Fine Arts Library is a little bit of an escape from that, he says. I was always totally inspired by how beautiful the inside was. Its so quiet compared to other study spaces.
When not working, Barrera heads to the beach volleyball court, a great stress reliever, he says, especially during freshman year when the Miami student was adjusting to college life. The sandy court makes it more fun and athletic, Barrera says, Im more willing to throw myself down to dive for a ball.
A double major in English and Italian from Cortlandt Manor, New York, Quinn Gruber loves the Student Projects Space at the Kelly Writers House. The space is special for me because its the home of the Zine Library, a student-run collection of zines (small, self-published books/pamphlets/print objects) that Ive helped curate for three years now, with Alyson del Pino (C21) and now Victoria Garcia (C23), says Gruber, currently a senior. I love hanging out on the green beanbag with a hot cup of tea and reading the amazing zines that we have in the library, and appreciate the space as a great resource for students who make art,since we have supplies,books, and printing available for everybody.
Gruber also plays violin in a Penn Chamber Quartet, an important reprieve from the pressures of work and school, they say. Gruber enjoys visiting the Eugene Ormandy Music & Media Center to borrow whatever piece Im working on, whether for Chamber or myself, and to discover new music by just wandering through the stacks, they say.
I was always really passionate about nutrition, and more specifically childhood nutrition, says Morgan Bacon. Growing up in Philadelphia, Bacon was acutely aware of food deserts, and began working with the Food Trust. Along with social determinants, she realized how big of a role nutrition played in heath, and applied to Penn Nursing.
The Annenberg Center is one of Bacons favorite places, because the senior attended a performing arts camp here as a child, which piqued my interest in college, she says. It all seemed like a glamorous life.
Once on campus, Bacon spent two years living at Lauder College House. I just loved it so much, she says. The courtyard area was a space where the house could come together.
Im on the basketball team, so thats an easy choice for me, says Lucas Monroe of Abington, Pennsylvania, of why he chose the Palestra as one of his favorite campus spots. But Im also a huge basketball nerd and the Palestra is the cathedral. Its Mecca. More games have been played there than in any other college arena, and thats why its so historic. I like to sit at the top, he says. Ill do homework up there; Ill read up there.
Monroe, a junior majoring in political science with a minor in Africana Studies, also likes to work on the hill outside of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Its a peaceful spot, he says, but also one thats good for people watching. You have the library to the left of you, College Hall diagonal. The Franklin statue and the Button are all right there; theres a lot of cool things you can look at.
Homepage image: Clockwise from top left: Morgan Bacon, Ariana Jimnez, Francisco Barrera,Quinn Gruber, Lucas Monroe, and Stephen Chen introduce their favorite places at Penn.
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