<p>Speaking of food I thought it was cute that Carnegie Mellon had pierogi and sauerkraut and some sort of Polish? sausage at their welcome lunch.</p>
<p>At Penn: basket of umbrellas at door of student union with sign that read: “Take one if you need one, provided by Random Acts of Kindness Club”. I turned to my daughter and said “That is so you!”</p>
<p>For me, I would go to Duke just for the forest.</p>
<p>Seems like many of these are LACs. I know where I’m applying…</p>
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<p>They have real alligators at UF? Umm, wow! The ponds are enclosed, right?</p>
<p>When I was walking around Northwestern, I saw some students singing while waiting for a stoplight and as they crossed the street. I also saw a student inviting a homeless man to his house because he didn’t have anything to give. Their conversation was highly amusing.</p>
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No! Hence the problem… gulp…</p>
<p>Posters, posters, posters on every telephone pole and info kiosk advertising films, concerts, meetings, demonstrations, and anything else. I still judge a school by the level of poster activity around and just off campus.</p>
<p>If they’re not caged, have there been instances when an alligator attacked passers-by (maybe drunkards feeding them or something)? Or students using alligators as pranks? Anyway, that’s pretty cool.</p>
<p>What I love about this is that there is something to love about…everywhere. My son didn’t like one campus because of a road running through it or chain link fences. Another kid would visit the same campus and see incredible Art opportunities or the best bookstore. The LACs are often small and have their own personalities, but it sounds like the bigger schools have them too. Nice.</p>
<p>At Oberlin,we saw the esteemed,older flute professor (DeBost) riding an old bicycle to work in the morning,just like in a movie.Also loved the womb chairs in the library.
Arizona State-the most incredible sunsets visible from anywhere on campus,palm trees and suharo cactuses outside D’s dorm room window.The hidden fountain in the mUsic Building plaza.Theres a “Nipple of Knowlege” at the library there also.
The unbelievable hospitality at U of South Carolina,people so nice you think they’re faking it.H and S given free lunch b/c the place didnt take anything but cash and they didnt want H to have to track down an ATM.The fact that the Presidents House is right in the middle of the campus with student dorms on either side of it.</p>
<p>“They have real alligators at UF? Umm, wow! The ponds are enclosed, right?”</p>
<p>A lot of the passageways around UF are boardwalk type structures, because they like to leave the natural groundcover and a lot of times you’re walking over water and that’s when you see gators. They’re “under” you.</p>
<p>I don’t know, nor does son, of anyone getting attacked by gators. You probably have to be swimming in a lake near their nests or something. The lakes in UF are off limits to swimming.</p>
<p>We have gators in the lakes around our houses and they don’t come up and attack us!</p>
<p>We had a bear in our yard recently and it made no move to attack us. I loved the movie “The Jungle Book” where the Mowgi character suggested that killing without a need for eating was only what humans do…</p>
<p>Speaking of eating, at Antioch College the bakery opened at about 4am and we had heartbreakingly fresh donuts, including whole wheat.</p>
<p>The peaceful scene at Grinnell while eating an excellent lunch in their million dollar student center. We sat next to a wall of wavy glass looking out over lawns to a single oak tree with a swing hanging from it.</p>
<p>Sir sandwiches at the Naval Academy</p>
<p>AT USC, we spent 25 minutes watching a student with a movie camera take a picture of water falling from a fountain. He was trying to catch it just so, with the angle and the sunlight perfect for whateve vision was in his head. He was so intent, and so oblivious to anything else, it was just enthralling to watch him. He was still at it when we left. But I love seeing people who are so intense about any one thing.</p>
<p>Bowdoin-the wonderful seafood chowder with whole clams, shrimp and scallops-and the walk to their ocean front property (beautiful)</p>
<p>Dartmouth-the Dartmouth Skiway and Occum Pond for skating, the happy tour guides. The buildings are clean and well kept.</p>
<p>At reed, walking in and hearing my favorite band playing overhead at the admission’s office!</p>
<p>At USC:
- The grass comes right up to the edge of the sidewalk.
- The student musicians practicing under trees.
- The student film crews all over campus.</p>
<p>Oberlin: I found one of my all-time favorite books in a nearby book shop there a few years ago. Before then, I’d never even heard of this book. </p>
<p>This is one of the best threads here. I wish it would be featured because it’s probably the happiest thing I’ve read in a while.</p>
<p>Smith: a girl rode by on a horse, in front of a pond and landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmstead</p>
<p>Brandeis: one theater group, among dozens with regular theater scheduling, is just for the Sabbath-observant. They never rehearse or perform on Friday night or Saturday before sunset. </p>
<p>Ithaca College: the view, OMG, the view, with every building oriented towards it! When the kids walk, their faces turn towards it, too, like Egyptian friezes.</p>