<p>The open space and foliage at Brandeis isn’t bad for looks. The architecture sucks bigtime though. The current science buildings are about as nice as prisons, old '50’s-industrial with few or no windows, although most other buildings are better.</p>
<p>When my dad helped me move in freshman year, he told me he thought the dorms were even worse than the ones he lived in back when he was in college, and those weren’t exactly the Four Seasons to begin with. In fairness, that dorm has since been renovated. Overall, the problem here is we’re not old enough to have the really classic old-style architecture, but too old to have contemporary stuff, yet not old enough to necessitate new construction.</p>