<p>Correction to Northeastern Dad: Williams’ brand new, insanely nice library will be open for fall of 2014 (you may be thinking of Amherst’s massive new science complex, which is slated to open in 2017). That means that students entering this year will get two full years with the new library, and anyone entering after this fall will have the new library for all or most of their time at Williams:</p>
<p>[Project</a> Timeline | New Sawyer Library](<a href=“http://newsawyerlibrary.williams.edu/project-timeline/]Project”>http://newsawyerlibrary.williams.edu/project-timeline/)</p>
<p>The facilities at Williams are almost uniformly among the very best of all the liberal arts colleges (certainly its student life facilities, science facilities, dorms, theater, and humanities facilities, and in two years the main library, all of which have been newly built or gut renovated within the past dozen years). The one exception, ironically given the discussion in this thread, are the athletics facilities, which are just so-so overall (with some high points like basketball and squash), and in some cases (the field house, the football complex, the fitness center) badly in need of major improvements.</p>