<p>Current Brown students,</p>
<p>How is your life at Brown?
What has your college experience been like?
and what is it like being so far from home-especially if you’re from the west coast?</p>
<p>Just curious, as Brown is one of my top choices!</p>
<p>Since no one has answered yet, I’ll give you some notes from my daughter as told to me, but she graduated a few years ago.</p>
<p>far from home - she was raised in Calif (SF and LA), but she wanted the ‘away’ experience and it suited her, a real adventure and introduction to the East Coast. She liked being on her own although it took almost a year to make really close friends. But she is picky. Home is just a plane ride away. She did skip some home visits due to cost, but made good use of the times staying, doing research with professors, and hanging with some of the internationals who seldom go home (found a boyfriend that way.) Far from home doesn’t mean much with the level of phone and internet communication these days. It is a time to focus on your school community and what you get from it and what you contribute.</p>
<p>I think life was good–it was def best as a jr and sr, when you are closely engaged with your department and professors and cohort. I think the first 2 years can be overwhelming with what to take and which direction to go in and how to fit it all in.</p>
<p>Hope that helps and some students come along to comment.</p>
<p>oh it was phenomenal. i just graduated this spring in may, and i have to say that Brown is absolutely the coolest and chillest college imaginable. The people are extremely smart and talented, so everyone you meet is amazing. a very liberal campus, but still pretty amazing people. ive spent a good amount of time in yale, harvard and columbia and those people, no offense intended, are just so much less cool than brunonians. yeah, it’s definitely the people that make the experience. everybody’s friendly and open, intellectual and stellar people. my own college experience was unforgettable and so incredibly missed already. and, unlike on other campuses, every last student and professor at brown loves the school, unquestioningly. </p>
<p>one of my housemates and close friends was from california. the weather was always awful (for all of us but esp him) but he went home plenty and often, but still preferred to be at brown on breaks rather than in cali. that’s all i can really say about that. </p>
<p>definitely a great place to be</p>