Grad students do have a life outside the lab, library and classroom.
In past years, though, Penn graduate students' social lives have been fairly confined to their individual schools. A nursing master's student ice-skates at midnight with a Wharton MBA candidate. A med student introduces herself to an engineering grad student while they wait on line to get into Circa , a Center City restaurant and night club. Photograph copyright by Jenny Friesenhahn Graduate students hit the ice. Call it dual-degree dancing or multidisciplinary mixing, it's the social equivalent of curricular collaboration on the academic side.