<p>Professors at Brandeis are largely accessible and helpful. There is also a health professions guidance office.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for inspiration from physical surroundings, may I suggest Oxford where, at one time or another, some of the dorms actually served as dungeons. In the U.S. Yale bears the closest resemblance.</p>
<p>The greatest source of “comfort” should come from the people you live with as opposed to bricks and mortar. I’d also look for motivation to come more from the classroom than the dorm. By those criteria, Brandeis measures up well.</p>