<p>thnx a lot MTM, I am an Iraqi so will this hurt my chances at Brown?! Supposedly it should be an advantage (since Iraq is cuurently doomed and I dont think any1 will be able to apply. I am a Jordanian resident)</p>
<p>Can you actually study in the Annemarie Brown Library? Or are there not a lot of workspaces?</p>
<p>I doubt that any of that will hurt your chances, it may in fact help make you stand out. Just because we currently have no one from these countries does not mean we won’t accept them, just that there were no qualified, or perhaps, none at all, who applied from those countries, I’d imagine.</p>
<p>IHS - No it will not hurt your chances at all. In fact it should be a huge advantage as that is a perspective that I’m sure the University would be glad to have. I’m sure Brown would love to have you.</p>
<p>bjrwrh - I’m not sure as I’m too afraid to go inside.</p>
<p>What do you think of this article?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1998/10/07/brown_no_financial_aid_necessary.php[/url]”>http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1998/10/07/brown_no_financial_aid_necessary.php</a></p>
<p>It’s probably a load of bull, but I wanted to hear your take on it.</p>
<p>Both the Dartmouth article and the Vanity Fair article it refers to (I believe) got a lot of criticism for being incredibly biased, one-sided, and an unfair portrayal of the school. Additionally, Ruth Simmons, Brown’s current president, is a world of difference from the former President (that article is almost 8 years old). We now have need-blind financial aid for all students except for internationals, an endowment of about 1.7 billion (our endowment per student is in the mid-range of the Ivy League) and are about to start a new capital campaign to raise an additional 1 billion and change dollars for the endowment. Brown does get a lot of foreign and domestic royalty and sons and daughters of the rich and famous, I agree with that, but the Brown described in the article is not the one I, or anyone I know from Brown, has ever witnessed.</p>
<p>Not to mention that they’re just envious of Brown’s cool status. 
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<p>What a nasty article! Dartmouth is stupid.</p>
<p>Hahahaha. A while back Brown published an op-ed by someone bashing Princeton. Someone from Dartmouth wrote in attacking us for attacking Princeton, so someone wrote BACK attacking Dartmouth for being such a loser that he was reading our newspaper. Let me see if I can find the article and the letters, they were very funny…</p>
<p>Found it. The op-ed bashing Princeton I thought was kind of dumb and inappropriate, but here is the Brunonian response to the letter by the Dartmouth student:</p>
<p>To the Editor:</p>
<p>I haven’t read Neale Mahoney’s '05 column (“Dismissing the anti-Brown,” Feb. 24) because he is my roommate, and therefore I already know better than to listen to his opinions. However, I was distressed that Josh Lerner '07 thinks anybody should feel bad about making fun of Princeton (“Why can’t we be friends?” March 3). I, for one, know for a fact that all the other Ivy League schools suck. Strap one on, Josh Lerner, and defend Brown. Sure, it’s stupid and ignorant, but that’s half the fun of college pride!</p>
<p>And to the kid from Dartmouth (“Dartmouth student weighs in on the anti-Brown,” March 3), I have only this to say. Are you serious? Who reads other colleges’ student papers? Is there really that little to do in Hanover? Dartmouth sucks, and if you and your pong-playing, moose-violating friends ever want to come down from the mountains and question me, I’ll be waiting in my parking lot with a Brown sweatshirt, a baseball bat and Neale Mahoney’s dumb ass backing me up.</p>
<p>Jon Miller '05
March 3</p>
<p>What can I say but EL OH EL. :p</p>
<p>Do many people use the laundry service, and if so, is it a reliable one?</p>
<p>Hahahaha</p>
<p>wow, that was amazing</p>
<p>ahimsa48 - I’m not sure, but my friend who did said it was sort of annoying and he just sort of wanted to do it himself by the end.</p>
<p>i know there has been lots of talk about dorm layouts and such but i was wondering if i could get a detailed description of perkins hall. i know its a more “suburban” experience and furthest away from everything, but how are the actual rooms? what is the bathroom situation? thanks!</p>
<p>The rooms aren’t bad, have closets. Common bathrooms I believe but could be wrong. Funny carvings outside.</p>
<p>question about freshman rooms… everyone is saying its a double, but does that mean its like one large room with 2 beds in it or are there at least 2 individual rooms that one can lock and have some privacy in?</p>
<p>I would be concerned that if its one room how would one study if the other is watching tv? Also, there is a security concern in that scenario because then there would be no way to lock up your room and keep your valuables and belongings in because what if your roomate brings other people into the room while you’re out somewhere??</p>
<p>Like every other college I know, and every college experience I’ve heard about from adults who attended university over the past 40 years, freshmen at Brown are put into a double which is one room with two beds. </p>
<p>How can one study when the other is watching TV? Well, the one who wants to study could go to the library, the dorm lounge, or one of the several 24 hour study spaces around campus. Or the one watching TV could turn it off and go somewhere else. Or the situation could erupt into a vicious bloodbath, which is probably the least preferable option. You have to learn to work those situations out, its a part of college and growing up.</p>
<p>Again, you’re correct about the security concern, but thats just another thing you have to work out with your roomate. I honestly don’t know any colleges where freshmen get singles, and I think its a good thing that they don’t.</p>
<p>JKSBond… how you can have 157 posts on a college related site and not be aware that at most institutions, if not all, doubles, or one room with two beds, is the most widley available form of housing and more than that, almost always the way the majority of freshman live. Even in apartment style housing, at least some of the peopel living there often share a room.</p>
<p>You have to trust your roommate to an extent, get a box to lock **** in if you don’t, and don’t expect to be staying in privacy and luxury.</p>
<p>That being said, having had a very large, 16x16 room to myself my whole life, I am looking forward to sharing. I already have in camp situations (three summers of research on college campus) and it’s a nice change and adjustment.</p>
<p>To answer your question, I have 157 posts because I usually post and answer SAT questions or discuss AP’s and stuff in the SAT/ACT boards… I just recently started thinking about college life itself rather than the tests needed to gain admission.</p>
<p>I just find the sharing room thing kind of odd since I’m not used to it being an only child. I mean in college, I doubt you and your roomate would go to sleep at the exact same time so one would constantly be disturbing the other when staying up late or turning the lights on and off in the middle of the night or coming in and out at odd hours.</p>