<p>pierre0913 wrote: "Northeastern has an ugly campus? I don't think so, many of the buildings on Northeastern's campus are </p>
<p>quite modern"</p>
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<p>Pierre, many, if not most of us, consider "modern" ugly... it is too often sterile, hard, lifeless surfaces, square simple angles, utilitarian to the max (like modern prison architecture). I have never seen Northeastern, no consider this comment about modern arquiecture in general, and not about Northeastern.</p>
<p>Especially as regards a college campus, the modern aesthetic is out of place when juxtaposed against historic collegiate images of ivy lined brick, painstakingly chsselled limestone -- often ornate, complex and impossible to reproduce today in a cost contained way. </p>
<p>That article about Northeastern is pretty outdated... the picture it shows as NEU campus isn't even a NEU building!</p>
<p>Anyone who has visited northeastern in the past 5-10 years would agree that it's a pretty nice campus. You can say what you want about the school, but "ugly campus" is a bit off the mark and suggests that you've probably never visited the school.</p>
<p>But these two schools aren't even in the same league. Northwestern >>> Northeastern.</p>
<p>@smarteeangel, a coop in this context, is an internship for engineers. They also have coop programs for chemists and biochemists. You may also find at college there are residential coops, these are totally different. They are like fraternities without the long term commitment or expense.</p>