Apparently H-Mart and Bibimbap are key to the six degrees of separation.
Way to bring us back @katespeare!
To those nostalgia buffs. Most of your favorites did not exist in my eons ago college time- get over them. Things come and go around a dynamic campus- even campus buildings do so. All of you who hate U Michigan- in Wisconsin we donāt even think about it. Nice to have a large lake for separationā¦
@makesmesmart ā¦ and there it is. The arrogance on full display. I have no skin in the game for UVA or VT (and yes their colors are awful) but there is nothing laid back about UVA. A friendās daughter got into UVA and elected to go to a NE private. That poor kid got harassed by parents who couldnāt understand what would possess her to turn down UVA - a public ivy! Beyond obnoxious.
@lastone03 My D17 turned downed UVA for Boston College. Wasnāt even a close race.
@cleoforshort Thatās so funny because the kid I spoke of also chose BC ā¦
@TomSrOfBoston and having to go to the computer lab at 3 am to get time on the mainframe.
I was talking to the dad of one of my kidās friends last night at intermission and of course we start talking about colleges. He said that the kid had been fixated on UCLA and wanted to go visit, but he refused to take all of spring break off for the cross-country flight to visit physically. So they did the online tour from the website, and she hated it. Said the campus felt way too big and spread out and she didnāt like the presentation. It convinced her that she had to be looking at smaller schools.
I had to laugh. From favorite to hated without setting foot on campus.
We used to live in Northern Virginia. We moved 20 years ago. 20. To this day my husband is still āmadā because our kids ācould have gotten in state tuition at the fabulous UVAāā¦get over it. 
You also double your chances of acceptance at UVA by being in-stateā¦
@ninakatarina Their loss. They donāt know what theyāre missinā. (8 clap in stereo - hit it, please.)
Well, I had one at UVA and one at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech kids , in general, are more laid back. UVA kids are not really, in general, that ālow keyā about their love for their school. I enjoyed visiting UVA for 4 years, but was glad to experience Virginia Tech for four years as well. Just different atmospheres.
Not sure I would characterize UVA as quite as arrogant and obnoxious as some here would though.
āI guess āHarvard of the South!ā Does not have the need to compare itself with its hickish little cousin.ā
Frequent bumper sticker seen at The University back in the day: āAll dirt roads lead to Va Tech.ā So true.
UVA = Robert Mueller. Va Tech = Steve Bannon. QED.
While UVA > VPI, both schools have horrendous mascots. Hokie Turkey and Cavalier are both embarassing.
I was actually at the football game (I think in 09ā) when the Virginia Cavalier (Cavman) fell off his horse! Now, THAT was embarrassing!
@northwesty Add in:
UVA = Robert Mueller.
Va Tech = Steve Bannon.
William and Mary = James Comey.
JMU = Walter Shaub (former ethics chief).
At first I liked Penn State, but that was my first college tour and so when I got to see others, I was so much more impressed. Penn State is in the middle of nowhere (literally), it was dreary on the day I visited and it is wayyy too big. Iām even into a bigger campus, and applied to many Big 10 schools!
This is so funny! I visited UCLA too and honestly didnāt even know where I was. You think it would be picturesque because its Caliā¦ but it honestly just felt congested and hot.
@northwesty says- UVA= Robert Mueller. Virginia Tech=Steve Bannon.
However, Mueller BA was from Princeton, JD from UVA.
Bannon BA was from Virginia Tech. But, MA was from Georgetown, MBA from Harvard. So, not exactly undergrad to undergrad equivalency. I say let Georgetown or Harvard have him!
@jessica2018 I can relate with some hate. At UCLA visit we went up to the food court area above the bookstore and were claustrophobic from all the people and overall grime. I judge places on how neat their bathrooms are and that one looked like one at a rock concert. And we had to wait to go into the bookstore cause too many people were in there. Maybe just a bad day? No, I did several visits (multiple college kids) and every time it was the same. Too California like, even for this Californian.
UNC wasnāt as nice as I thought it would be given all the hype that I had heard about it.
I didnāt care for most of the architecture on the buildings and the busy hospital complex on campus kind of ruins the college town vibe.
We took a day to visit Northwestern while in Chicago.
No, just no. A collection of random looking buildings scattered about on an undistinguished piece of land with the lake āover there somewhere.ā The tour guide was a frat boy from Long Island, but lest that sound glamorous he was more of a Flounder than an Otter or Boon, or even Bluto. His favorite word was āphenomenal.ā He went on an on about the glories of living in dorms with athletes who treated everyone else just like regular people, and the equal glories of fraternity fundraising events. He projected a resolutely pre-professional, un-intellectual image of the school. At one point, because this was making me grind my teeth, I asked him whether many NU students went on to graduate school, and sure enough, he started talking about business and law school. I said no, I mean like to PhDs in academic disciplines. He looked at me in bewilderment and said he had no idea.
The info session was conducted by the blandest person we saw at any of our visits. He projected the same bland image of the school. Worse, when talking about the famed theater program, he cited Maisie Gummer as a recent grad who had just appeared in her first movie. He failed to mention that her mother was Meryl Streep, and the her small part was in one of her motherās movies! Argh.
The next day we went to the U of C. Home, sweet intellectual home.