Syracuse vs University of Delaware

Threekids_kid
Fri, 23 May 2008 19:26:21 +0000

[Syracuse University](Plan Your Visit to Syracuse University - Syracuse.edu) Have a look around

SU is mostly contained on a hill about 5 minutes from downtown Syracuse. There’s a lot of cultural entertainment in the area: an opera, symphony orchestra, equity theaters, several very good museums, and art shows. A lot of the activities have to do with snow (there are ski slopes fairly nearby), but if you look around, you’ll have stuff to do indoors and out.
The campus is almost on top of the site where 690 and 81 (highways) meet, which also happens to be the place where the different personalities of each area of syracuse intersect. Near BBB (a dorm) is the rougher side of 'cuse, characterized by violence and a failing economy, closer to east campus are the family friendly neighborhoods (and Wescott–look it up). 20 minutes north or south and you wind up in lovely, almost-rural, suburbs. Go apple picking, hike, picnic by a lake–it’s beautiful. Beautiful, that is, but not exactly exciting if you’re not the birdwatching type (although snow mobiles are pretty sweet). If snow were gold, 'cuse would be the richest city in America. But it ain’t. Still, as many cracks as I take at Syracuse weather (I’m a Florida girl), I’m getting tired of people fixating on the snow. Prioritize. Is the weather worth it to you?
As for the set up of the campus:
There are no gates, no true entrance, but driving up the Hall of Languages on University (…ave or pl, I can never get them straight), is a classic first viewing. The buildings around the quad are absolutely beautiful, and each has a fairly different architectural style. The buildings off the quad are more modern, less romantic. Bird library is sinfully ugly. Newhouses 1&2 aren’t really appealing either, but the 3rd is wrapped protectively in the words of the first amendment and I can’t help but love it.
It takes about 11-15 minutes (said one article) to cross from the dorms west of the quad (past the dome), to the dorms east of the quad (past the bus stops and the new Life Sciences complex). Like every university with an interest in holding it’s rep, SU is under constant construction, and new dorms and buildings are currently being built near the east side of campus.

I highly recommend a campus tour (and I also highly recommend weather-conscious clothing), and while you’re at it, get interviewed if you want. Any more questions, or if you need something more specific, lemme know.