Campus Photos

rpc
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:26:38 +0000

My son has not yet decided where he is going for the next four years. Though we have been living just 35 minutes north of Boston for over 12 years, we’ve never thought that he would attend a college in Boston one day.

I was in the NEU campus with my son last Friday. I must say that the NEU campus is very impressive. The speech from the dean of CAS made us believe that NEU is a good school as well. However, I noticed something while we were touring the campus:

1.Most NEU buildings are very new and modern. The CAS (my son will be majoring at Econ.) building (i.e. Lake Hall), however, is just an old New England warehouse. The girl took us into the Hall from the back/side entrance. The stairs is the industrial metal kind and about 3 feet wide. The hall way is about 3 feet wide too. I don’t know whether the building is only for the administration purpose, but the conference rooms and professor’s offices are in that building too. I also noticed that there was a computer room (for student) next to the conference room where we were giving the sales pitch. I was totally shocked by the old computer equipments/PCs they have in that room. I know that each university is good/emphasized at some majors and pouring lots money in those programs. My impression was that in NEU, CAS probably is on the lowest of the list in turns of spending.

2.On Friday late morning, as we were walking through the campus, there were three girls wearing Bikini lying on the lawn in front of the dormitory. I might be old-fashioned, but I thought the better place to do this was on the balcony, next to a pool, or at beach. Anyway, I was wondering whether or not these girls are co-op students because, at the same time, most of the students were busy going to buildings for classes. After seeing this, I started having the doubt about NEU is a good place to learn academically while there are many co-op students living around the campus.

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