@Old_parent ah well good for you, not so far! Hope she enjoys the revisit
@porcupine98 While lurking is encouraged, your hesitancy to vent is bad for your health, and I worry about you. Come on admit it, the ivy wasnāt green enough!
Yes, yes @Lindagaf !
@CALSmom , too much brick at Harvard? I suppose youād prefer if they tore down one of those brick buildings in Harvard Yard and erected something akin to the Boston U. law school building in itās place? Yeah, THEN the place would look good.
Or maybe build something like the main library at the U of Toronto right in back of the John Harvard statue?
Yeah, the Robarts library at U of T looks like somewhere that invading aliens live at.
Donāt get me started on university libraries. I think it was mostly a timing quirkālots built when American architecture was at its nadir. I generally think the campuses that Iāve visited (very many) range from beautiful to spectacular. Yet Iāve only seen a handful of libraries with impressive exteriors. This is true at even the most spectacular campuses.
The perimeter of U of Iowa, on the side of the downtown mall area where there is a line of restaurants and bars, REEKS of cigarette smoke. Gah.
The library at Georgetown has to be right up there on the list of ugliest university libraries. Iāve just never understood why brutalist architecture ever had a heyday.
This might be the most pretentious thread in the history of CC
Maybe we should start a new thread where posters tell us the things they donāt like about the school they love/have kiddos at. But compliments disguised as negatives wouldnāt be allowed ie; School X makes it so hard to pick an advisor because every professor is like totally awesome, or The food is soooo good at School X that my snowflake gained 15 lbs.
One personās pretentious is another personās idea of humor. Iām finding it pretty entertaining.
oh I agree it certainly is
@JerseyParents We aim to please and weāre grateful for your first place vote. Now we need some new blood to tell their horror story so that we can get back on track.
OK, Iāll chime in. One of Dās safety schools, Springfield College (MA). Pretty campus. Small, but strong in Teacher Education, which will be Dās major. Lots and lots of green grass divided by straight-angled paved walkways. And a rule/motto that was repeated over and over and over by almost everyone from the college we met: āDonāt walk on the grass ā we donāt cut corners at Springfield.ā Which meant that the shortest distance between point A and point B was actually several straight lines that drove us crazy when it was just a few yards across the grass.
^Thatās a complete turn off. Itās grass, not a museum! So, no kids sitting on the lawn or playing frisbee?
The anti-authoritarian in me would be tromping on that grass. 
Itās only a few hours drive from meā¦ hmmmm. :-?
āDonāt get me started on university libraries. I think it was mostly a timing quirkālots built when American architecture was at its nadir.ā
Totally agree. Many of those mid-1960s libraries are pretty unfortunate.
Take the Hesburgh library at Notre Dame, for example. Luckily, someone had the bright idea of covering up a big part of it with a mural. So people only see Touchdown Jesus and donāt notice how ugly the underlying building is.
@doschicos Go for it! Iād come with you if I didnāt live 3000 miles away. 
@northwesty the view from the top floor of the ND Library is the other redeeming feature of the building.