<p>Cingular(AT&T? *** is it now, anyway?) is the best cell phone coverage. Most people switch over at some point. T-Mobile is pretty bad here in my experience. We have wireless across campus that is usually pretty good. Student discounts at a lot of eating places–and I believe there’s a discount for a cell phone plan, too. </p>
<p>Closest airport is T.F.Green and plenty people fly out of that. Logan International Airport in Boston is also an option. There’s more detail regarding that in an earlier post. </p>
<p>Brown is not poor, we’re just not as wealthy as, say, Harvard. But then again, seeing as they’re the wealthiest, that’s kind of a given. We’re still amongst I think the top 20 wealthiest universities in the nation. </p>
<p>Math placement you’ll want to feel out once you get here. Brown won’t really make you do anything–but you’ll want to figure out if the course is too difficult/easy for you by actually trying it out. </p>
<p>WASPs? I’m sure some people fit the actual words(White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant?), but in terms of the stereotype, that stereotype is a thing of the past that is long gone.</p>
<p>Simone, I answered you question about the airport earlier. I believe that’s the info you were looking for.</p>
<p>That question about RI corruption affecting Brown was one of the most amusing I’ve seen here. LOL. When I was a student we used to speculate about which restaurants were owned by the Mafia, and enjoyed reading about Buddy Cianci’s various exploits.</p>
<p>Brown<em>or</em>bust: the first 2 weeks of school is called “shopping period.” You can go to as many classes as you want while trying to figure out what to take. Because so many people are exploring their options, class sizes are fluctuating all the time, and people are adding and dropping courses regularly (my daughter knows people who have shopped more than two-dozen classes each semester). And dropping and adding a class is as easy as going onto a website and clicking a few buttons. There are classes that are capped or have requirements – which happens everywhere. Make sure to register for the capped classes and not the larger lectures, because you can always switch into those.</p>
<p>As for cell phone service, the Verizon coverage has improved tremendously since they added more towers this winter.</p>
<p>When are the vacations during the year? is there a link to the 09-10 calendar? </p>
<p>Also, can anyone describe the city outside of Brown</p>
<p>[Office</a> of the Registrar: Calendar](<a href=“http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Registrar/calendar.html]Office”>http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Registrar/calendar.html)</p>
<p>Providence is a lovely city with many interesting and historic places. Google the city and you will find lots of info.</p>
<p>The show Brotherhood on showtime is filmed here as well as plenty of other stuff. The movie Underdog has plenty of good shots although some have more buildings CGed in.</p>
<p>How is the music program at Brown?</p>
<p>is Providence too sleepy and antique? Is it similar to Long Island…? </p>
<p>any city-like things?</p>
<p>Providence has parts like Long Island-- the East Side looks a lot like an older, NE version that’s slightly nicer than some of the South Shore suburbs. Actually, it’s quite like Bellmore where I’m from. The city itself is completely walkable (the downtown area at least) and is less lively than NYC or Boston but is still a great resource.</p>
<p>It’s one of those… you can get by easy without a car and have access to pretty much everything you need on foot. It’s less lively on the streets-- there are less walk in shops and restaurants than a lot of other cities, but there’s a wealth of culture options (AS220, Trinity Rep, Providence Performing Arts Center, RISD Art Museum, the state capital, Lupos, Dunkin Donuts Center, Bank of America Plaza) and lots of shopping (Providence Place Mall which is massive, the Arcade).</p>
<p>I guess the best way to describe it is think of Long Island condensed so that you can access anything you’d want by walking. Providence is definitely a city relative to most people’s standards, but it’s not NYC. Boston is only an hour by train and cheap.</p>
<p>The other Jason, wolfmanjack, will tell you this is definitely a city, coming from Kansas (though there are some surprisingly large cities in Kansas, I hear), but someone who’s from Manhattan may not feel that way.</p>
<p>That being said, there are so many things going on campus at Brown that those things alone make this place far from “sleepy”.</p>
<p>Isn’t the Arcade closed?</p>
<p>yep the arcade is closed. too bad. needed more incentive to be walked through since that’s what arcade’s are for (see Paris on that one). </p>
<p>People always quote the figure of Providence having a small populaion of 175k or so but really the area is populated without interruption for quite a ways in any direction. My educated estimation of the Providence metro area (I’m counting any cities connected to cities which are connected to Providence) is about 1,000,000 people. The population density in Providence is about 4 times higher than in Wichita, KS. The actual size of the area seems similar to Wichita but the population is higher because of the density. However, the Providence area doesn’t compare to the Kansas City metro area. The Prov metro area as I’m defining it is maybe half as big as KC.</p>
<p>Prov is definitely an older east coast city with many old and beautiful buildings downtown as well as the typical church steeples of New England. It’s not Boston but has some charm of a smaller place. I’ve had to do significant research on Providence and have spent hours in the City Hall archives (listening to the old man’s stories up there haha) as well as the dreaded Historical Society library and I’ve become very interested in this city and its history.</p>
<p>I will say that having car does seem to open things up to you which are outside the College Hill/Downtown area. I finally found some decent authentic Mexican food but it’s in Olneyville which is a bit far to walk and sometimes a little sketchy after dusk. We have bus passes for free as Brown students but I like my cars.</p>
<p>Hi. I’ve been looking at potential classes for next year and they all have Letters for the Section/Hour (For example, 1/J). is there a website that shows what slots these actually mean? I can’t seem to find it.</p>
<p>nevermind i found it. it’s [Table</a> View of Standard Meeting Times](<a href=“http://www.math.brown.edu/grouptable.html]Table”>http://www.math.brown.edu/grouptable.html) for anyone who needs it.</p>
<p>do a lot of freshmen/or Brown students have cars??</p>
<p>0 freshman have cars, and a few upperclassmen, mostly those who are off campus, will have cars. The only reason you’d “need” a car is food shopping though I’ve enjoyed having one since I’ve moved off-campus. Amongst the people who I’m close with, maybe 1/3 or less have cars and only 2 of us had cars junior year (we were the only two off-campus junior year as well).</p>
<p>Providence is a very walkable city.</p>
<p>Once you get used to the 170 foot tall hill.</p>
<p>I’ve done the Hill in blizzard weather… it’s a matter of pride and learning not to walk up certain ways. I have to tell you, I was miserable the time I decided it’d be fun to walk up Angell Street instead so I could really get a look around there freshman year.</p>
<p>Plus, now that the bus is free I’ve taken the trolley up College Hill from Kennedy Plaza to Thayer.</p>
<p>I walked up Lloyd after the good snow my first semester here (bad idea) and watched a guy ski down the street.</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to ski down the hill.</p>