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<p>It’s true and yet, UVA never really felt that big to me. I mean, obviously the Grounds are extensive, but you find your niche, the parts of the University that you frequent, and the scale of the place in particular is almost like a liberal-arts college, I mean the Lawn, Ranges, McCormick, Brown etc. </p>
<p>Only a couple of times did I have classes that were *not * held somewhere in the Cabell Hall - Rugby Road axis. A couple science classes 
…I never set foot on North Grounds once, and in 3-1/2 years I only had a couple of classes with more than 30-40 people. Quite the contrary, I most had fewer than 20. And a musicology course in Old Cabell Hall, overlooking the Lawn 
It’s a wonder I got any work done in that class!</p>
<p>Sorry to ramble a bit! The main point is that yes, it’s much larger than William & Mary, but you have no trouble finding your niche and at no time does Virginia *ever *feel like a factory on the order of Penn State, Ohio State etc. Just as important, otoh, it’s large enough that you’ll never run out of things to do, day or night, and that *is *an occasional complaint against W&M.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/webmap/ACentralGrounds.html[/url]”>http://www.virginia.edu/webmap/ACentralGrounds.html</a></p>