I know, I'm a few days late in writing about this but.. last week was Halloween. Hope you did something fun. Penn's Graduate And Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) had a happy hour downtown to celebrate. Free drinks who wouldn't like that? It was held a fancy restaurant on the top level. Fairly good turn out I'd say a few hundred. Throughout the year GAPSA plans events for students across campus. In the fall, they held orientations and tours of Center City for new students, they offered discount tickets to the Phillys game and the Philadelphia Zoo. They are offering free yoga classes each week this month. It's always a wide variety of things they are doing and it is a great way to get involved and meet graduate students outside of your program and outside GSE (not that GSE isn't cool)
Another cool thing GAPSA offers is language chats. You can sign up to talk with a small group of students and usually a native speaker in order to practice or deepen your knowledge of another language. I think that is one of the issues facing many people trying to learn another language is that they don't get an opportunity to practice speaking it very often. GAPSA language chats are offered in Japanese, French, Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish and Korean this semester.
GAPSA's home, and where many of their events are held, is the Graduate Student Center. This building is located in the middle of campus and offers free wi-fi and a great place to relax or study during the day. Only graduate students allowed! They also have a fire going in the fireplace now that it's getting cold out. And the best thing of all.... they offer free coffee and tea 24/7!!! How great is that?
I'd definitely recommend getting involved in GAPSA while you are at Penn. You can check out their website to see more of their events going on around campus.
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