<p>i’m brown '09, and i’m letting you all know that if you turn down brown, you’re making the biggest mistake of your life. well, hyperbole aside, you’d be missing out on a lot.</p>
<p>questions? ask away.</p>
<p>I am coming , I am coming!!!!!!!!!! YEAAHHHH!!!!</p>
<p>Word up. 09 here and in complete agreement. **** I need to start doing work though... plus I gotta fill out my concentration form...</p>
<p>if you're answering questions, I'd love some fun factoids about brown -- quirky things to see and do and some of your favorite things about campus. i am SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>punctuation abuse hotline, we have a suspect.</p>
<p>Fun factoid #1: Spiritus Fermenti.....'nough said</p>
<p>Fun Factoid #2
Standards is so much better than Spiritus you'll cry when you find it...</p>
<p>But honestly, I don't know what kind of thing you're looking for...</p>
<p>lol where is it? and please dont tell me its near Perkins.</p>
<p>Closer to Perkins than to Pembroke but no, it's down off the Hill just past 195. It's hard to get to without a car (long way to carry) but it's cheap as **** and the collection is fantastic.</p>
<p>Ahhh such anonymity... is there a Facebook group for us admits?</p>
<p>How's the asian population at brown??</p>
<p>if you're going for cheap, and you have a car, it's totally worth it to go to cranston and hit up either the People's warehouse or that one with the giant chicken in front. Even cheaper than standards and bigger too.</p>
<p>no, we can't</p>
<p>campus wines is also better than spiritus and not that far of a walk</p>
<p>I've been out for 24 years and I still feel like the OP. :) </p>
<p>One of my favorite things about Brown was RISD. Several of my life-long friends came from RISD.</p>
<p>SBmom,</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted to RISD. I read in some thread here that RISD students could technically take courses at Brown, but it is VERY difficult to arrange. Can you comment on this?</p>
<p>First I need to be accepted...Then for sure I will go..
BTW.. you can ask the adcom to accept me.....</p>
<p>I am under the belief that a joint Brown/RISD degree is soon to be offered although the principal difficulty is alleged to be the semester orientation vis a vis the trimester orientation of Brown University</p>
<p>Perhaps someone knows better than I Please don't take my claim as fact but I could have sworn that it is soon in the offing</p>
<p>I think you can take up to four Brown classes for academic credit as a RISD student and it works the same in the opposite direction.</p>
<p>Well, I took a RISD course and it wasn't that difficult, but the schools' schedules aren't exactly coordinated... semesters begin/end differently, class times begin/end differently etc. I believe most RISD classes require huge numbers of hours-- so maybe the RISD kids have a harder time than the Brown kids? Also the course prerequisites might be hard (both ways). But where there's a will there's a way. Actually there is a very new program that offers a 5 year dual RISD/Brown degree, so the schools must be trying to coordinate better.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D. Such an honor to be accepted at RISD!</p>
<p>You're right. The greatest difficulty has to do not with the semester/academic year timetable as it does the days of the week. RISD studio courses meet once per week for a whole day. Brown courses typically meet a few times per week for an hour each time. Another issue is that during the foundation year (first year), RISD students don't have any flex in their schedules; and in some programs even during the second year (the first year in their major) it's hard to have the flex to take Brown courses. But in junior and senior year there is more flexibility in general. As a student at RISD, my daughter took several courses at Brown (e.g., sociology, history, Italian).</p>