Absolutely Unique Features About Colleges?

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Berkeley’s Doe Memorial Library Stacks are also located underground.</p>

<p>[Doe</a> Memorial Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_Memorial_Library]Doe”>Doe Memorial Library - Wikipedia)
“The Gardner Collection, acquiring its namesake from the 15th President of the University of California David P. Gardner, is a four-story underground structure consisting of 52 miles of bookshelves, housing some of the University’s most prized collections. The Main Stacks were constructed in 1997 with four large skylights to allow for natural lighting of the underground structure. The Gardner Main Stacks connect the Doe and Moffitt Libraries by means of an underground hallway, this is the only way to enter the Main Stacks after hours.”</p>

<p>Another interesting tidbit:
“The Main Stacks is also famous for streakers during finals week.”
Only in Berkeley…;)</p>

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<p>I don’t get it. Is this a 2 year college, or is it like a pre-college that sends ppl to real four year institutions? What?</p>

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<p>@bmc
Olin also covers all of it’s student’s tuition.</p>

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<p>MIT has the second largest underground system in the country, after the Pentagon.</p>

<p>You can paint your walls and have cats in some of the dorms at MIT (same with Caltech)</p>

<p>I’ll think of more later.</p>

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<p>Deep Springs takes the place of your freshman and sophomore years of college. A guy from my school went two years ago. You’re there pretty much all year though. And there are no women.</p>

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<p>I painted on the walls (Yellow Submarine, Comic book figures, Peanuts characters - which phosphate containing detergent added so it would glow with blacklights) and had a dog in the dorm at UCD in the 70s so MIT is hardly unique in that area.</p>

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<p>Linfield College in OR: For students entering in fall of 2002 or after, Linfield pays the cost of round-trip air transportation from the Portland International Airport to one destination for one trip-January Term or study abroad - for each student who meets program requirements.</p>

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<p>Emory’s football team is undefeated (LOL)</p>

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<p>So does UC Berkeley, at least as far as human flesh-bound books are concerned.</p>

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<p>I think this is true of some other schools too, but it’s worth mentioning - MIT more less gives 6 consecutive weeks off in winter due to the january independent activities period</p>

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<p>Middlebury has a really great extra-cafiterial eating area called ‘the grill’ and another (right underneath it) called ‘the juice bar’ </p>

<p>these together basically simulate a really great sports bar…with TVs, great food, pool tables, ect</p>

<p>its basically the only reason im not applying ED to this other school..</p>

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<p>^ That is not the only college that has that you know. What do you mean an extra caferterial eating area? Is it like sponsored by the school like is it on your meal plan, like can you spend meal points there and is it sanctioned by the school at all… Cuz that would be unique. </p>

<p>Other schools has sports bars nearby too.</p>

<p>There has to be a university somewhere in Alaska that has its own runway and airport. lol</p>

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<p>i’m not sure whether its part of the meal plan but its run by the college</p>

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<p>SUNY Fredonia’s grounds are covered in weird sculptures by former students, the most famous being a lifesize caricature statue of our president Denis Hefner. It’s a pretty accurate picture of him. :)</p>

<p>President Hefner is so famous around campus that there is a facebook group dedicated to him called “Denis Hefner: The Man, the Myth, the Legend”. </p>

<p>Fredonia’s football team is nonexistent. We don’t even have club football. Hockey’s the big thing around here. :)</p>

<p>Fredonia’s University Commons is home to the only Starbucks between Erie, PA and the Canadian border (at least, according to the people at orientation). </p>

<p>I’d say we’re a pretty unique school.</p>

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<p>According to our tour guide last week, the Wash U campus in St. Louis is where the waffle cone was invented during the Olympic Games.</p>

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<p>USAFA has the worlds busiest VFR airfield.</p>

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<p>USMA, USNA, USAFA…lights out at 11am? Grueling PT at 6:00am?</p>

<p>Ownage.</p>

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<p>Can you still paint your walls at Davis now? … 70s was a long time ago
I wasn’t saying that was exclusively unique to MIT since I even mentioned Caltech.</p>

<p>Now that you brought up UCD,
it was the only UC that didn’t give me a car sticker with my acceptance letter XP</p>

<p>Other random facts:
Caltech’s dorms (the 4 towers together) have 4 court yards at different elevation. None of the rooms has the same dimension. I think the floors are at different elevation too. Just because you go into an entrance of that dorm, doesn’t mean you can reach any room in that dorm without walking through another entrance (like Hogwarts… really confusing).</p>

<p>Everything(except names of dorms) at MIT is referred to with numbers: majors, classes, buildings, rooms.
It also has the tallest building in Cambridge that was designed by I.M. Pei.
One of the dorms has a sacred 4 year old milk in it’s fridge.
If you live in Simmons Hall, you can have up to 18 separate windows in your room and a ball pit as a meditation room.</p>

<p>Harvard has really really really pretty freshmen dinning hall.</p>

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<p>^ But Harvard’s dining is overpriced and the food…sucks. :-p</p>

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<p>I got free dinner in one of the dorm dinning halls. It was pretty good and healthy looking. At least Harvard kids get food plans. I might be starving to death 2 miles away from Harvard, or die from eating all the free fried food frats are giving out.</p>