How is JHU's campus?!?!

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<p>This is a question to all those who have visited JHU (preferably current or past students...)</p>

<p>My friends who have visited JHU have said great things about their campus...but they've never told me specifics.</p>

<p>I'm going to major in International Relations (studies), so if anyone can give me any information as to JHU's campus...please help me out!</p>

<p>Any information is welcomed! (what types of trees grow there? how many gardens? any bit of information is welcomed!)</p>

<p>thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>beautiful quads! serene yet INTENSE! definitely an intellectual atmosphere.
i remember there were many pretty trees and a lot of green. nice facilities & air-conditioned dorms!</p>

<p>lol just wait until you visit. you'll love it!</p>

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<p>Check this out: John</a> Hopkins Homewood Campus</p>

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<p>The university is nestled in Charles Village, a quiet neighborhood north of Baltimore City, Barnes and Noble is conveniently located across the street from the main entrance of the campus, and there are a bunch of little shops and stores within a few blocks of campus, including popular venues such as Cold Stone Creamery, Starbucks, Subway, and Chipotle.</p>

<p>The campus is rather large with many windy, brick paths, wooded areas, and large patches of grass, (especially the "Beach," a large, grassy hill in front of the MSE Library where you can typically find students studying or lounging around during the warmer months), monuments and sculptures are scattered around the campus, and yes, there's gardens too, at least two that I can think of off the top of my head. The Georgian-style architecture, along with the white marble stairs leading to many of the older, historic academic buildings, gives the campus an intellectually inspiring feel, my favorite building hands down is Gilman Hall, I believe it was the first building constructed on campus and it has it's own clock tower. (It's usually the pretty building seen in most of the JHU postcards and similar paraphernalia.)</p>

<p>You should REALLY visit the campus if you have the chance, words via CC really can't do the campus scenery justice.</p>

<p>Some other links:</p>

<p>An older, less technologically advanced 'tour' of the campus: <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/tour/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.jhu.edu/tour/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>A video tour of campus taken while someone was riding around on a golf cart, don't ask, lol: <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/audio-video/campusdrive.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/audio-video/campusdrive.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Also, you should check out Flickr.com, (just type in JHU), a bunch of ameteur photographers have an array of campus photos posted on the site.</p>

<p>Oh, and the trees, lol, taken from last semester's Bio homework: "American Beech, American Sycamore, Red Oak, Tulip Tree, White Oak," although I can guarantee you there are more types of trees scattered around that I haven't named... </p>

<p>Okay, enough procrastinating, back to work! :)</p>

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<p>Constantinos</a> Michael Pictures of the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus</p>

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<p>I took some pictures last fall. Enjoy! The campus is so beautiful, especially now that it's spring and everything is in full bloom! :)</p>

<p>Link: JHU</a> in the Autumn | lestkao's Xanga Site - Weblog</p>

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<p>Also, feel free to look at my Baltimore pictures from last autumn as well. I haven't been able to take any new Baltimore pictures in a while but hopefully I can soon with the weather getting nicer!</p>

<p>Link: Fallen</a> leaves and life in Baltimore | lestkao's Xanga Site - Weblog</p>

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<p>I stayed over the summer for a couple of weeks, and it really is nice. The whole campus is very cohesive (brick). I don't know. The brick gave me a sense of homelyness and austerity.</p>

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<p>Tanya,
Homewood is in Baltimore, LOL!</p>

<p>When I went there, it was more park-like- fewer buildings, main entrance was the one on N Charles Street going up to the library. When we visited with D#2, she thought it was very pretty.</p>

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<p>IMHO, the nicest urban campus around.</p>

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<p>Clarification for NJ_Mother: In my post above, I was referring to the city (or urban area, if you will), of Baltimore, the touristy section and most southern part of "Baltimore City" County, where you will find the Inner Harbor, Camden Yards, the business district, (Convention Center, Courts), Fells Point, etc, an area which that is located south of the Homewood campus, also located in "Baltimore."</p>

<p>I do attend Hopkins, you would think I would know where I live, lol. ;)</p>

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<p>Sorry, Tanya, did not know you were attending, thought you were accepted for next year! My apologies.
But having grown up in Bawlmer, I never heard Homewood or Charles Village area referred to as "Baltimore City." ;^D</p>

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<p>Although I'm not attending, JHU campus is very beautiful. Green trees, classic, clean buildings, and very nicely trimmed and mowed landscaping. It's almost like a pictoresque park in the middle of Baltimore. That's just my take when I visited this April; dunno about dorms though.</p>

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<p>as a 17 year resident of towson, right outside of bawlmerr, i can say that all may not call homewood really far downtown, but it is most defnitley in baltimore city (and not very close to the city line either). so i guess both of you are right. anyway you look at it, your living in a city atmosphere.</p>

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<p>It's all good NJ_Mother. :) </p>

<p>Back to the campus discussion, if anyone is debating on visiting, or is in the process of making travel plans, you should do so soon, as all the flowers/trees around campus are finally starting to bloom. Quite pretty scenery. :)</p>

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<p>can anyone share some pictures of the dorms? I'm really wondering what it look like inside. Thanks:D</p>

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<p>Here are virtual tours of the inside of McCory, Homewood and Bradford. <a href="http://tours.virtualtoursofmaryland.com/jobs/JHU/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://tours.virtualtoursofmaryland.com/jobs/JHU/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Although these are soph-senior housing, McCoy is very similar to Wolman, though nicer. Also, this tour lacks the beautiful Charles Commons. As a freshman, if you live in AMR/A/B, don't expect anything like these. They are plain dorm rooms. However, you can look forward to living in the other buildings for your sophomore, junior and senior years.</p>

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<p>If anyone is going to see the campus in bloom, plan to go to Sherwood Gardens also, it's close to Homewood. Be prepared for an amazing display of tulips, azaleas, and jonquils. Nice place to picnic.</p>

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<p>For pictures of the dorms, check out the Hopkins Interactive "Cribs" page: </p>

<p><a href="http://apply.jhu.edu/hi/athopkins/cribs.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apply.jhu.edu/hi/athopkins/cribs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Current students take pictures of their dorms (or video in some cases) and take you on a tour of their room via the picture captions. Stay tuned to the cribs page in the next week or so; this years cribs are coming up and they have many more videos included</p>