Preceptorial Preparedness

Registration for Preceptorials - free, non-graded seminars that usually meet three times over the course of the semester - is finally open! Sign up is through Penn in Touch and you should do it quickly, because why risk missing your chance to become a member of the complaining-about-not-getting-into-the-wine-tasting-preceptorial club? A large and powerful, though not exclusive, campus organization.

We took a look at some of our favorite offerings and fluffed out the descriptions a tad. Check it out after the jump.

PREC 10.001 Wine Tasting: The description for this course says " Please only register if you are a senior and are 21+." This leads us to believe that those unable to legally drink cannot even be exposed to the course content in a brief synopsis. Secrecy? Very attractive. Also be sure to check out PREC 190.001 Cheese Tasting, which we hope will be scheduled directly before or after - heck, maybe even during! - this one.

PREC 40.001 A Shark's World: If there's anything we've learned from Twitter trending topics (and there's a lot #jonasbrothers) it's that people go wild about sharks and Shark Week. Personally, we are terrified of the things, and have nightmares about Jaws even though we recently watched a documentary that showed how the menacing mechanical protagonist was constructed. However, this does seem like the kind of thing your 10 year old self thought he/she'd be learning about in college, so that's pretty cool.

PREC 140.001 Quantum Physics and the Computer: Just joking!

PREC 150.001 Flavor Tripping: How to Make Lemons Taste Like Lemonade: What a positive message this course has! Helping students cope with times in which life gives them lemons? That is too sweet (get it?) But real talk, we love Miracle Fruit and will squirt lemon juice into both of your eyes and flavor trip you on Locust Walk if that's what it takes to get into this one.

PREC 300.001 Exercise Myths: Find out if what you've been doing to stay in shape is really working. (We're sure it is! You look great!)

PREC 330.001 Introduction to Contract Bridge: You and the ole' birds lookin' for somethin' to keep your minds active while you gab about the neighbors in the sun room? Well put the pinochle away, folks, because you're about to learn how to play bridge.

PREC 360.001 Mad Potters Wheel: If you're like us, you register for a Fine Arts course every semester and then drop it within the first week because 6 classroom hours is simply too many. Enter: a ceramics preceptorial! Perfect for the aspiring artist (okay, aspiring participant in art class/aspiring person in Charles Adams) with limited time and limited skills.

PREC 450.001 Sex, Drugs, and Judaism: A tagline fit for the institution.

PREC 460.001 Smell and How it Works!: Okay, we don't particularly want to take this one, but the professor's use of an exclamation point is absolutely endearing.

Check out all of these and more, right here.