<p>With my S, I just took a campus tour at Georgetown. I spend a fair amount of time on other campuses around VA, both private and public. I was very surprised that Georgetown seems not to put a high priority on keeping its buildings looking clean and fresh. There is masking tape all over outside walls where posters have been taken down. Hallways look drab. The Walsh building, inside, looked terrible. I was particularly disappointed in the library. It was very unpleasant. Compared to a place like William and Mary, it is downright pathetic.</p>
<p>Have any of the rest of you noticed this? Does G'town not have the money to afford state of the art facilities? Will this affect your decision to attend there? </p>
<p>How about current students, what do you think about the state of the facilities?</p>
<p>FWIW, my S said, "It's not a what a library looks like that matters but what resources it has." Particularly in this age of the internet, I don't agree.</p>
<p>Really? I thought the library looked pretty sweet on the inside in one pic I found. Maybe we are talking about a different library, or I have no sense of what looks cool, or prolly both now that I think about it.</p>
<p>A friend who is an undergrad there told me Lauinger is supposed to be a modern take on Healy Hall, but I really can't see it at all; it just looks disgusting.</p>
<p>Drummerdude: the library you're referring to is most likely Riggs Library -- which is on the third floor of Healy Hall. It is almost never used by students; the library is kept for historic purposes and for events such as receptions, etc.</p>
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<p>You should've visited other parts of campus: The Southwest Quad, completed in 2003, is beautiful, and so is the recently renovated performing arts center. The school is also constructing a business school, which should be completed by the fall of 2009. The pictures I've seen of it are amazing.</p>
<p>All the poster tape and such are probably remnants of fliers that students hang during the school year: the school takes them down every week. From what I've noticed, students are pretty aggressive with fliering, so it is not surprising that there should be a huge mess left behind.</p>
<p>Sure, Lauinger isn't the prettiest building on campus...but it's a great library, and the four diverse floors make it so there's always a place that can comfortably accomodate the level of concentration you're willing to put into your studying at that time...second floor being the social floor, etc.</p>
<p>As for the tape on the outside of the ICC in red square, that's just due to the fact that the posters hung there by student groups are constantly changing. I've never really taken notice of old, grungy tape marks since there are usually bright new fliers over them.</p>
<p>I had two classes in Walsh and I wasn't really bothered by the lack of elegance of the hallways, I just loved the fact that I had a view of the Washington Monument from my classroom window.</p>
<p>White Gravenor, Old North, Copley, Healy, etc., are all beautiful buildings in my opinion, and the fact that the lib, the ICC and Reiss (among others) aren't as lovely has never affected my opinion of the school. The insides of all the buildings, while not spotless, are never very dirty and still function just fine. </p>
<p>PS- All this is coming from someone who disliked Gtown on the first couple views of the school, changed mind on a GAAP weekend and can now not imagine being anywhere else.</p>
<p>Do people really choose a school based on architecture? I know pretty buildings are a nice plus, but the education should be the primary factor.</p>
