Earlier this week, we saw what a 1972 Penn dorm room looked like and how little dorms rooms have evolved since.

After the jump, go on a journey with four 1996 alumni who return to Penn for their 15 year reunion and hunt down their freshman dorm rooms, only to learn something significant has changed... (minute 1:32)!

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It's about to be the start of another school year and I recently stumbled upon a blog blast from the past article written by Penn alum Jeffrey Slater (C'76) that you'll be interested in.

In Jeff's nostalgic post, he recounts his time at Penn: from his beginnings, to the friends he made, to the memorable times he had there.  (FYI, Jeff is another example of multiple generations of families who have attended Penn)

I'm covering Jeff's post because I look at the pictures he has posted and no matter what year you graduated, you went to Penn with that guy in the pictures above and to the right.  It's amazing to me to think that every alum since the 1740s have had, and will continue to have their own touching golden moments of Penn preserved for their lifetime.

On that note, after the jump, journey back to the past and check out a picture of Jeffrey's 1972 dorm room ...and what poster was considered popular then to hang on your wall!

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A few weeks ago I started a "Tuesday Tips" weekly series and now starting today, I will be starting a weekly "Now and Then Thursdays" series highlighting videos and photos from my time on campus with the current campus.

To start this series off, back in September 2007, through facebook photo postings, I found the student who is currently living in the room I lived in my freshman year in the lower Quad!

I know what you're asking... "how do you know it's the same room?"

Besides the fact that I ultimately asked the girl via facebook, I first identified the photos because my room was a unique top floor corner room in a dead end hallway (--in a building without an elevator! Yes, I had a hell of a time going up and down those stairs and I had killer calf muscles by the end of the year. ...Don't even get me started on move-in and move-out!)

Click below to see the shocking side-by-side photo comparisons of my 1992 room photos vs. the current day room photos!
Photo 1: Room
Photo 2: Room
Photo 3: Quad View
Photo 4: Hallway

Alumni, have any good stories related to your dorm room? Comment below!


Check out other Penn photos of "Now and Then"!




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