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06-02-2006, 11:45 AM
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| My bad, my bad.
I *quickly* edited my post that mentioned U Chicago, but I see that in the span of five minutes, somebody had already said I was an idiot.
I have never really seen U Chicago. I've seen it from the outside, in the dead of a Chicago winter, and it failed to impress me. But that's no reason for me to have included it, even briefly, on a list of ugliest campuses.
All of the others I mentioned, however, I have first-hand, walk-around/drive-around knowledge of.
Including Yale. And yes, I immediately sensed the campus' neighborhood problem. But the campus itself just reeks of history, and to me it seemed a place that said that some serious educating goes on here. | 
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06-02-2006, 01:55 PM
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| nerdnirvana: Quote:
ok, i *was* referring specifically to the big nasty square-ish buildings. i so would have joined the vegetarian coop if i had gone there. berkeley is gorgeous, or at least the hill part, but the giant ugly buildings made me want to puke.
the library was SWEET though.
i just remembered that.
now i wish i was going there.
| Like I said, if don't like the big square dorms, you have the option of staying at any other dorms like Clark Kerr http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/peter/ibs/ibc0019.jpg http://www-als.lbl.gov/icess/ClarkKerr2.jpg
or Bowles Hall http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...1/17/Bowles.jpg
or a number of coops like Cloyne Court http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsackett/8675004/
or International House or Wada (your Jr and SR yrs) http://www.emjr.org/cal/football/2002/wsuGame/336.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gn...58106732&size=l http://static.flickr.com/30/42072238_d7169f9954.jpg
Funnily enough, most Cal students actually prefer the big ugly square buildings, because those have the most intense social life. The Berkeley board on this site has many incoming students who are whining at ending up in the pretty dorms as opposed to the busy ones. As well, the view from the upper half of these buildings is quite stunning, in all directions (green hills, city or Bay/Golden Gate views.) all the rooms have big windows. | |
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06-02-2006, 06:39 PM
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| Something that always strikes me when reading posts like this is how different everyone's tastes are! I've seen people critize what I looked for and laud praises on what I hated. Personally, I LOVE red brick, so I was in love with UVa, Wake Forest, and Vanderbilt. Gothic can be beautiful, too, though often it becomes somewhat depressing. The Gothic part of Duke's campus was quite nice...the rest of it was boring. What irritates me, personally, is when the architecture doesn't match. I wanted each building at my college to look more or less the same, to share a common architecture theme--I wanted it to be clearly indentifiable as a part of the college. NOTHING irritating me more than Berkeley's complete and total inability to stick to any one particular style of architecture. Walking through the Berkeley campus was like a walk through a museum of architecture through the ages, through some beautiful spanish-influenced stone buildings right on up to the most hideously concieved modern architecture you can imagine. :/
This is part of the reason I love UVA so much! All of the building MATCH. They aren't all identical, but they quite nearly all share similar properties of red brick, white accents, and lots of grass and magnolia trees and flowers. Simply breathtaking and absolutely perfect, IMO. Even the brand-spankin'-new John Paul Jones arena matches--none of that crappy modern architecture, built to fit in. Ah, so wonderful, I love UVA. http://community.webshots.com/photo/...73446713tKYAgH http://community.webshots.com/photo/...38487253zMKmpW http://community.webshots.com/photo/...38487253qQxgPM http://community.webshots.com/photo/...38487253drKSjj http://community.webshots.com/photo/...38487253vYAaDK http://community.webshots.com/photo/...81114402TTBmHK http://community.webshots.com/photo/...54333056zpKwoI http://community.webshots.com/photo/...38487253evLVkX http://community.webshots.com/photo/...29374406fJzyNj http://community.webshots.com/photo/...84054689EyEVpj
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06-03-2006, 07:34 AM
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06-03-2006, 12:00 PM
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| Can't beat the manicured rain-drenched lawns on English grounds. But of course you're not allowed to walk on them. It would be fun to put some cleats on and have a pickup soccer game on that lawn, until somebody kicks the ball through a 500-yr old stained glass window...
semiserious, nice pics, UVA is definitely up there, if only because it set the style and mold for that style, but I wouldn't trade UVA's brick style for Berkeley's white granite neo-classical (not spanish, that was only the style of Clark Kerr and International House dorms which aren't in the campus proper.) And definitely not the sites. I also like the architectural variety on campus, it kind of works well with the broader diversity of the campus community. | |
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06-03-2006, 12:33 PM
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06-04-2006, 09:02 AM
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