What is the prettiest campus? - Page 11

weldon · 06-08-2007, 01:27 PM

For your viewing pleasure, just one view (looking East) from Clinton Community College- I like to back up my opinions
http://www.perucsd.org/hsearthscienc...s/LLCHPCMP.jpg

greatlakes · 06-05-2008, 04:46 PM

Stanford is all the color of dried dung with a lot of undistinguished architecture.

Check out Yale, Brown, Dartmouth. Almost any school with a lot of land, set in nature, will be pretty, but then again, they tend to be pretty due to the landscape primarily.

y a l e Photo Gallery by Chris Szabla at pbase.com

MITpwnsnoobs69 · 06-05-2008, 04:52 PM

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Stanford is all the color of dried dung with a lot of undistinguished architecture.

stanford has the most gorgeous campus in the nation, hands down. to suggest otherwise is blasphemous.

see for yourself: http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8296/epgy091pi6.jpg

CoffeeAddict9716 · 06-05-2008, 04:57 PM

I think Yale's my favorite, but I also like the gothic buildings of Princeton, Duke, OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE of course.

Then the pretty mediterrainean(SP?) buildings of Stanford, Rice, Pomona, Pepperdine (mostly b/c of the ocean views and flowers..) and U San Diego

Some other gorgeous ones are Salve Regina (mansions off the bluffs of Newport Rhode Island!), Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Vandy, Columbia, Notre Dame, Northwestern, BC, Holy Cross, Fordham's rose hill campus, and Catholic University (the Basilica!!!)

I think I pretty much just named them all....hehe

MITpwnsnoobs69 · 06-05-2008, 04:58 PM

Duke is definitely #2 though

applejack · 06-05-2008, 05:00 PM

Cornell is often called "the most beautiful campus in the country" on posters and such.

I haven't seen all the campuses in the country, but of the ones I've seen, it's the most beautiful - architecture, gorges, big hill, classic quadrangles.

CCFanatic · 06-05-2008, 05:04 PM

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Cornell is often called "the most beautiful campus in the country" on posters and such.

I haven't seen all the campuses in the country, but of the ones I've seen, it's the most beautiful - architecture, gorges, big hill, classic quadrangles.

I visited Cornell. I think it has a beautiful campus but not the BEAUTIFULEST. Its really in the middle of no-where. No flowers, just snow in MARCH when I visited.

floppy · 06-05-2008, 05:05 PM

I really like Cal's and UCLA's campuses. I haven't seen any campuses outside CA,though.

People keep talking about how Stanford has a nice campus. I really don't see it all. Everything looks the same and you have to bike really far to get to class.

CoffeeAddict9716 · 06-05-2008, 05:11 PM

in regards to Stanford's campus, I kind of like how all the buildings look similar and everything is uniform...i guess its kinda like an OCD thing...where I like the buildings to look similar..but i know what you mean...I think i also am attracted to it (that sound kinda weird/inappropriate now doesn't it?) because its foreign and Californian (is that even a word) and I'm from the burbs of Wisconsin... stark contrast if you ask me...

applejack · 06-05-2008, 05:17 PM

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I visited Cornell. I think it has a beautiful campus but not the BEAUTIFULEST. Its really in the middle of no-where. No flowers, just snow in MARCH when I visited.

Well, based on your shocked emphasis of MARCH, perhaps you're from the South. Snow in March is normal and expected in the North. It's quite beautiful for many of us who like winter, ugly for those who do not. In the Fall it's stunning with all the leaf colors. In the Spring it's vibrant with new growth and that first warm day of the new year. In the summer it's simply sublime.

Why does being in the "middle of nowhere" affect a campus' beauty? Many people love Ithaca with all its quirky progressive culture, quality dining, and "gorges" topography. If you did more than visit and got to know the city, you'd understand.

Based on other posts, I think you have a grudge against the school.

I don't really care if it's the "BEAUTIFULEST" (?). I'm not going to wage a campaign to convince anybody. I was just pointing out that many people think it's quite beautiful. Why does someone always have to disagree?
Beauty's beholden to each eye based on a thousand different factors. The very reasons you didn't like it were precisely why I did. C'est la vie.

floppy · 06-05-2008, 05:18 PM

I guess I can see the whole Californian thing with the missions and whatnot.

Maybe that's why I don't like it, since old shopping malls and high schools have that mission vibe, too.

MITpwnsnoobs69 · 06-05-2008, 05:21 PM

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I really like Cal's and UCLA's campuses. I haven't seen any campuses outside CA,though.

People keep talking about how Stanford has a nice campus. I really don't see it all. Everything looks the same and you have to bike really far to get to class.

i completely agree about cal and ucla. especially ucla...stunning campus. btw do you go to stanford or just live there?

countryboy · 06-05-2008, 05:23 PM

My son would suggest that the answer to this question can be found in the thread listing the top 20 schools with the hottest girls.

floppy · 06-05-2008, 05:24 PM

MITpwnsnoobs69:

I go to Stanford. I wish Stanford had UCLA's campus/surrounding area. Palo Alto has nothing on Westwood. Also about that fountain you posted, it might be cool-looking, but it's located like in the dirtiest and ugliest part of campus. Yuck.

MITpwnsnoobs69 · 06-05-2008, 05:27 PM

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I go to Stanford. I wish Stanford had UCLA's campus/surrounding area. Palo Alto has nothing on Westwood.

nice, i've been to both Stanford and UCLA and while they're both gorgeous, I'd prefer stanford's campus any day. as for the surrounding area, i agree, palo alto pales in comparison to westwood.