<p>I thought it would be fun to start a thread where people can design their own college. Basically, I imagine this to mean describing location, architecture, name, size, academic climate, any specialties, social life, sports, the average student, and more.</p>
<p>You can even do it more than once. That is, design different schools.</p>
<p>I guess one way to summarize this would be: describe your ultimate dream school (not a specific one, but if you could design one).</p>
<p>The College of Paradise (founded 2015) is located in Miami. It is right next to the city, but it is completely contiguous and it’s own entity. However, the college owns a small strip of nearby beach that only students, faculty and their families can use. The 300 acre campus has hundreds of trees, several gardens, and all of the academic buildings are made entirely of glass. These academic buildings and libraries make up Quad 1 and 4. The dorms are Quad 2. Quad 3 has gym, pool, dining hall and administrative buildings. The athletic fields are around the 4 quads. The school has 3500 undergrads and no grads. Every single class is 20 students, and the professors all live on campus. It is required for students to live on campus, and besides the cottages for the professors, there are dorms for all students, where grades are mixed together. Almost all the social events take place on campus: every week has a DJ’d party, a concert, and a movie night. Academically, the students are very ambitious yet cooperative. They are politically aware, open minded, and entrepreneurial. Group projects for classes are common. The strongest departments are math, government, physics, and economics. The school is a division 3 athletic school and students have a ton of school spirit. They love their school for good reasons. The school does not report to any ranking lists, but it’s reputation is unquestioned, as senators, CEOs, and a president are alumni.</p>
<p>At UComm, your GPA is not really YOUR GPA, but is the average of all the students’ GPAs. Therefore, each student has the same GPA, effectively solving the GPA inequality problem that is present at most other universities.</p>
<p>Let me get this straight. In your wildest fantasy, your university has a Division III athletics program. Not even DII. DIII. Also, only one president is an alumnus. Weird.</p>