An entreaty to those attending Prefrosh Weekend

Hriundeli · April 17, 2007, 10:53am

Unfortunately, even if I had been accepted to Caltech, I would not be able to attend this event. Thus, I was wondering if you could take a couple of pictures of campus, dorms, lecture halls, other people, some otherwise interesting things and post it somewhere online. Even though I am writing this from a rather selfish perspective of getting a feeling of what Caltech is physically (I know what academic, social and meteorological(:)) atmosphere there is like), I am quite sure many aspiring applicants could benefit from such a collection.

Thanks in advance!

bookworm · April 17, 2007, 12:20pm

Caltech is the prettiest campus I’ve ever seen. Flowers and trees abound. Pools of water with genetic code painted on bottom. Ponds and bridges. Spanish style architect. Frogs in pond. Fruited trees make it smell great.

I hope pictures capture the beauty.

fizix · April 17, 2007, 3:18pm

There’s a Caltech Class of 2011 group on facebook where people post pictures of the campus.

UndulyLlamarific · April 17, 2007, 4:55pm

Taken during late winter on a weekend:

The South Hovses are really pretty too, I swear! But for some reason the only pictures I’ve ever taken of them were Interhouse construction photos.

lizzardfire · April 17, 2007, 7:08pm

A lovely view of Millikan Pond, with me being ponded in it. Llama was one of the conspirators in said event ;-)

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mother_of_perl · April 17, 2007, 7:46pm

Llama: Thanks for the great pictures! What a beautiful campus! Now the mom can dream while the daughter visits later this week!

jobanana89 · April 17, 2007, 7:57pm

I have to admit: Caltech is one of the ugliest campuses I’ve ever seen. It’s old and run-down, the cafeteriaa are worse than high school ones and the dorms are graffitied inside. Low buidings and ****ty (but expensive!) houses surrounding it…and there’s a cannon…I went on a tour and this indian kid fainted (literally) during the tour…

cghen · April 17, 2007, 8:12pm

Good story jobanana89. Tell it again, please.

lizzardfire · April 17, 2007, 8:44pm

lol yea… especially the part about our “cafeteriaa” being worse than high school ones. I LOVE Chandler food… so good. (Granted, our dinner food isn’t great, but Chandler definitely is. I’ve never met a person who gives it a negative review.)

lizzardfire · April 17, 2007, 8:47pm

Some photos to add to Llama’s:

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(I took those)
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<a href=“http://andymatuschak.org/files/IMGP0170.jpg[/url]”>http://andymatuschak.org/files/IMGP0170.jpg</a>
<a href=“http://www.andymatuschak.org/files/IMGP0169.jpg[/url]”>http://www.andymatuschak.org/files/IMGP0169.jpg</a>
(llama’s and my friend took those)

UndulyLlamarific · April 17, 2007, 9:52pm

The “graffiti” is actually student-done murals (with paint and materials paid for by Housing even.) I figure a lot of the prefrosh would be interested, so here are a few examples of ones that were in the South Hovses (some were destroyed during the renovations):

In Blacker:

In Dabney:

In Ricketts:

lots of other Dr. Seuss ones

Fleming doesn’t have and has never had murals as far as I know.

As for the North Houses, I couldn’t find many pictures. Page redoes their murals regularly. Lloyd has nearly every inch covered in really good murals but I couldn’t find any pictures except for [the</a> dining hall dragon only partially done.](<a href=“ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs”>ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs) Ruddock also has a lot of murals but I could only find [url=<a href=“ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs”>ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs]this</a> one<a href=“Calvin%20and%20Hobbes%20again.”>/url</a> Ruddock also has several really cool Escher murals.

phlogistonfreak · April 17, 2007, 10:50pm

How can you possibly call Caltech “Ugly”? I visited and thought it was the nicest campus I had ever seen. Or maybe I just like palm trees, views of mountains and spectacular gardens more than most people. The buildings were not spectacular, but cheerful and low-key. I suppose there is a fine line between murals and graffiti, but I thought they added to the place rather than subtracting.

bookworm · April 18, 2007, 5:11am

Jobanana is probably going to NYU Stern. Being from SoCal S.D.), s/he could be bored with nice weather & flowers.

Hriundeli · April 18, 2007, 6:39pm

wiping out tears thanks, people!.. Now it will hurt even more if Caltech doesn’t get to Waiting List this year…
I so don’t want to go to cold and faceless NYU (lol)(seriously)

Craig_Montuori · April 26, 2007, 11:49pm

<a href=“http://alumni.caltech.edu/network/houses/murals[/url]”>http://alumni.caltech.edu/network/houses/murals</a>

Check this link for photos of the murals

momofchris · April 27, 2007, 10:40am

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