Yale is Hogwarts Harvard is Azkaban

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>">>They say Annenberg, Harvard’s freshmen dining hall, is the most similar to Hogwarts’ dining hall <<</p>

<p>Indeed it is:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg"&gt;http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/p&gt;

<p>See…I would actually argue that Oxford’s Christ Church College dining hall is most similar to Hogwarts…</p>

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<p>I think my argument is strong because, well, it IS the setting for Hogwarts’ great hall.</p>

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<p>^^I don’t disagree, but Oxford is beside the point in a Yale/Harvard comparison.</p>

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<p>If you go to Harvard you will eat all your meals in that room for your entire freshman year. However, in the spirit of full disclosure, I will report that the food does not live up to the look of the dining room. It is perhaps a little better than average cafeteria food, but in the end it is still cafeteria food.</p>

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<p>I’m too lazy to find and paste the links, but Yale’s Freshman Commons, while not as new and spiffy as Annenberg, is damn impressive and Hogwartsy, especially when they have their medieval feast first semester. And college dining halls like Saybrook’s and Branford’s are cozier versions of the Christ Church model.</p>

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<p>Hey hey hey, don’t knock Tolkien. He was building a whole world of wonder and needed to be very descriptive. Skimming over means you lose out on so much of the greatness, I can still smell the scents and stare in awe at the landscapes of Middle Earth. </p>

<p>And CollegeHopeful don’t compare HP and the fluff that is Twilight, the first 4 books of Harry Potter were utterly brilliant.</p>

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You don’t have to if you don’t want to–upperclass dining halls are generally open to frosh also.</p>

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<p>anyways…back to HP</p>

<p>Dartmouth—Gryffindor
Yale—Ravenclaw
Cornell----Hufflefreakinpuff
Harvard/MIT—Slytherin</p>

<p>^pretty accurate i’d say. agree?</p>

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<p>^ I’d argue that you just dissed the 2 greatest schools ever =P</p>

<p>Pomegranates are pretty awesome btw, although they do stain pretty seriously if you get them on clothes.</p>

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<p>^^
:stuck_out_tongue: didn’t apply to either…full of goony math nerds</p>

<p>(take this lightly plz!!! I’ve been reading/analyzing The Catcher in the Rye all night plus i am bitter about knowing i can’t get into any ivy and that i can’t go to my match school because it costs too much so i am going to end up in a SUNY…blech)</p>

<p>that being said slytherin is for people willing to do anything to get ahead and that IS the vibe i get from H and M</p>

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<p>Now I’m thinking I’m probably not the only one who mentioned Hogwarts in my Why Yale short answer. Yale’s resemblance to Hogwarts is actually what made me love the campus so much at first (there are other great things about it too) - Annenberg is so beautiful! (I still have a picture of me in it…) </p>

<p>I didn’t get the same magical aura when I visited Harvard, though. Harvard just seemed a bit antiquated and it didn’t have the shimmer that Yale did. Of course, I wouldn’t get into either…</p>

<p>Some pictures from my Yale tour:</p>

<p><a href=“http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v118/210/71/1480651343/n1480651343_30382551_6730.jpg[/url]”>http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v118/210/71/1480651343/n1480651343_30382551_6730.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v118/210/71/1480651343/n1480651343_30382553_7483.jpg[/url]”>http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v118/210/71/1480651343/n1480651343_30382553_7483.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v118/210/71/1480651343/n1480651343_30382559_9687.jpg[/url]”>http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v118/210/71/1480651343/n1480651343_30382559_9687.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v118/210/71/1480651343/n1480651343_30382592_2624.jpg[/url]”>http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v118/210/71/1480651343/n1480651343_30382592_2624.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>that’s more the vibe i get from yale… thanks to lying politicians like GW Bush.
I feel that Harvard + MIT kids are much nerdier, quirkier, and less pretentious, so it’s easier to just chill with them.</p>

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<p>^ Or lying politicians like Obama (Harvard), or lying politicians like the Clintons (Yale grad), or lying people like Madoff (Hofstra)…</p>

<p>Politics, and Harry Potter aside - Those pictures from your Yale tour remind me a lot of the Gothics at Cornell</p>

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<p>^ shouldn’t obama count as columbia?</p>

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<p>Really? I visited Cornell too and I didn’t think it was nearly as beautiful as Yale. I definitely didn’t see any gothic architecture like that I saw at Yale. I thought Yale was unique in its pseudo-gothic architecture (as in, it’s not actually very old and was designed by a modern architect).</p>

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<p>^ For undergrad! (Also, I think he did a year or two at Occidental College first)</p>

<p>I was trying to keep the Harvard/Yale thing going…(so I included Clinton law school), but then Bernie popped in.</p>

<p>@ Juliet:</p>

<p>The tours that the campus folks lead (they all mention that godammned power nap thing when they walk by the ag quad/kennedy, it’s so annoying to hear now) doesn’t go down into West Camp. I think.</p>

<p>Cornell has Gothic arch buildings (a whole bunch) that are all interconnected over there.
<a href=“http://coastalct.alumni.cornell.edu/aad/cccc/images/Cornell-Campus-025.jpg[/url]”>http://coastalct.alumni.cornell.edu/aad/cccc/images/Cornell-Campus-025.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/2005/479/jpeg/16.jpg[/url]”>http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/2005/479/jpeg/16.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://ccgh.alumni.cornell.edu/new/images/photos/gothic.jpg[/url]”>http://ccgh.alumni.cornell.edu/new/images/photos/gothic.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
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<p>But…even still…</p>

<p>I adore Yale’s neo Gothic architecture.</p>

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<p>First off, Bush was a while ago, and just got in because of his father. We all know that and it seems like times have changed. Second, why would i want to chill with nerdy kids; less pretentious is ok, but nerdy!? lame</p>

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<p>^ don’t diss nerdier kids… some of us prefer nerds to preps…</p>

<p>and if you’re on cc you’re probably a nerd</p>

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<p>[Yale</a> dining hall ceiling August 2008 pictures from black & white pictures photos on webshots](<a href=“Desktop Wallpaper: Free Trial!”>Desktop Wallpaper: Free Trial!)</p>

<p>one for Yale
CC shall have nobody disrespect Yale (51st amendment)
signed,
bluewhite</p>

<p>And I so love this thread
the h deserves this, truly</p>

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<p>“if you’re on cc you’re probably a nerd”</p>

<p>well at least nerdesque maybe, but that’s only really illustrated by my grades… I s’pose i’m a nerd/jock hybrid …roflz</p>

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<p>Yale’s Branford Dining Hall was the dining hall that Harry Potter’s producers visited to construct Hogwarts’ dining hall. I personally think that Yale’s Saybrook dining hall is more like Hogwarts’, but thats just my opinion.</p>

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<p>^
Love that. Is it really true?</p>