<p>Duke, Stanford, Princeton, Williams, Holy Cross, William& Mary all have great facilities. Dartmouth and Colgate are fine if you like very remote locations with cold weather.</p>
<p>Columbia is ugly and the dorms look like garbage (i.e tiny and nasty). Emory is very nice</p>
<p>Columbia is gorgeous.</p>
<p>Not as gorgeous as USC though ;)</p>
<p>columbia is soooo cookie cutter. It is a college and nothing extravagant. There is no astonishing or innovative architecture. Umich is gorgeous, NYU is meh, Yale is gorgeous, MIT is UGLY UGLY UGLY!</p>
<p>My favorite campus is Williams, because it is beautiful (during the winter and the spring), functional (everything is easy to find, so it is difficult to get lost or to have to take a tortuous route in order to get to classes), and appropriately sized for the school. I love it. I would love UChicago's even more, as the quads are nearly unbelievable, if the campus were functional. The dorms and the dining halls and most of the buildings I went into were ugly, dimly lit, maybe so people won't see the grime... Max P is the only nice, clean dorm on campus.</p>
<p>My second favorite campus is Cornell, but it is not as functional, as you'd have to take buses to get to some quads, but besides that, the architecture of the buildings and the campus is wonderful.</p>
<p>Columbia's was nice, especially since it is in the city, and in the context of the city, Columbia is a "very good" infrastructure. However, there is not as much open space as I would like to see it have. </p>
<p>Amherst's is ugly. The inside's of some buildings are okay, but they do not save the integrity of the camp as a whole. RPI is simply terrible.</p>
<p>I liked Caltech's and Stanford's campuses, and CMU's and JHU's were not bad.</p>
<p>Devilmaycry, it's not the first time I hear MIT is ugly, which is hard to believe being such a great school. Is it really that bad, I mean the dorms and all that stuff?</p>
<p>Lol MIT is often described as ugly. The buildings are just....I should get some pics.</p>
<p>please do hahahaha. (by the way, can anybody here explain me what "lol" means?)</p>
<p>here:</p>
<p>How bizarre. :)</p>
<p>WHAT ARE THEY USING THEIR ENDOWMENT ON?</p>
<p>LOl this is seriously MIT..</p>
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<p>It means "laughing out loud"</p>
<p>Ok THANKS FOR THAT EXPLANATION LOOOOOOL</p>
<p>Isn't it ironic that MIT is considered one of the best places to sutdy architecture?</p>
<p>and by the way, these MIT pictures remind me of sidwick side in Cambridge, UK. Someone suggested its capus to be the most beautiful, which is true for most of its parts, but sidwick if just too horrible</p>
<p>Devil, I don't think those are so bad - though Gehry's created a monstrosity. Have you seen CalTech?</p>
<p>They've got the monopoly on horrible, ugly architecture (except Beckman).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.inb.mu-luebeck.de/%7Emadany/private/pictures/pasadena/camp05.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.inb.mu-luebeck.de/~madany/private/pictures/pasadena/camp05.jpg</a>
(did the circus come to campus?)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gregmcivor.com/images/cali/caltech/caltech_11.JPG%5B/url%5D">http://www.gregmcivor.com/images/cali/caltech/caltech_11.JPG</a>
(romanesque? gothic? georgian? No, it's Army Bunker-revival)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gregmcivor.com/images/cali/caltech/caltech_14.JPG%5B/url%5D">http://www.gregmcivor.com/images/cali/caltech/caltech_14.JPG</a>
(no comment)</p>
<p>Damn. LOL </p>
<p>You got a point.</p>
<p>replying to atu23, i know i took a casual tour around Harvard and the guide said that he thought the architecture building, though designed by a famous architect, was one of the ugliest on campus</p>
<p>Duke has a great campus...their freshman dorms are a bit outdated however.</p>
<p>Devil...I'm truly confused about your point that Columbia has no unique architecture...they were one of the first schools to not do gothic in a time period when gothic was normal for colleges.</p>
<p>You may have your opinion that it doesn't look nice, but your architecture comment was offbase.</p>
<p>You are probably right. But looking at it in the present, I just see a rather formulaic and typically standard college. I am not transcended into the beautiful and Gothic architecture of Princeton nor sterilized and calmed by the Georgian architecture of Duke's East campus. In short, Columbia felt rather antispetic, not making me feel enticed or calmed.</p>
<p>Princeton is the most gorgeous campus. UCLA is really pretty too, and so is UC Irvine, actually. Berkeley is very nice if you hit the right parts of it at the right times. UC Davis feels very comfortable. Pomona is really pretty too, if small.</p>
<p>I'm not as fond of Santa Cruz or San Diego (except, of course, the library). I'm REALLY not that fond of either Harvard or MIT... and what's sad is that I don't find Stanford very appealing either (I agree with the too-heavily-made-up girl comment from way back up there somewhere)... and I'm going there next year, with a bunch of people who'll be rhapsodizing about its beauty. OH well! That's not why we go to college, anyway.</p>