<p>and somehow ended up on the wrong tour.</p>
<p>oh well; that campus was the nicest one i've ever seen.</p>
<p>dare I ask what tour you ended up on?</p>
<p>I hear the “Crack Houses of Harlem” walking tour ends with a nice tasting.</p>
<p>Looks like you haven’t seen Stanford’s campus yet.</p>
<p>Can you list the schools you have seen, and your feelings about them?</p>
<p>I love college campuses and visiting them. Personally,</p>
<p>UChicago - Really Beautiful, but I never saw it other than during the winter. Great Gothic architecture. The city around it is nothing special</p>
<p>Northwestern - Nothing special. An amalgam of different styles. One of the worst I’ve seen</p>
<p>Georgetown - Meh. Some buildings are really interesting while others look like boring office complexes. Only one really great courtyard. The city of Georgetown and DC are great.</p>
<p>Columbia - The first school that really blew me away with its grandeur. It looked like what I always imagined an Ivy League school would look like. Too small for my taste, and I’m not so sure about the middle of the city thing.</p>
<p>Yale - I went on a trip that was Columbia first then Yale. I was convinced to do Columbia ED until I saw Yale’s campus. It’s on another level than any other school I’ve seen. It is my exact dream of what I imagined college would look like. The residential college system is great too with all the schools architecture different and interesting in it’s own way. The many picturesque courtyards create a safe but yet open environment. I’ve just guessing, but I think the only other schools on par would be Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, and Oxford.</p>
<p>haha @denzara
i took that tour before hand, drving through harlem. rofl</p>
<p>my friend somehow confused columbia college with general studies. and so it was two seventeen year olds in a tour group with a bunch of older people.</p>
<p>i wanted to visit chicago, but i won’t get the chance. hope i’m not missin out too much</p>
<p>
Truth. Or Swarthmore’s.</p>
<p>Columbia’s campus is gorgeous, and for most students, strikes the perfect balance between being close to the action in the middle of the city, vs creating a bubble where it’s a placid academic community with mostly your fellow Columbians around. </p>
<p>I’m not sure that the cobblestones of college walk (even when lit up with the christmas lights, easily everyone’s favorite decorative feature) can compare very well with the likes of Stanford. But it probably does compare favorably with, say, Locust Walk at Penn, or the infinite corridor at MIT, to say nothing of the approach NYU takes of “we’ll just put a bunch of buildings somewhat near Wash Sq park”.</p>
<p>stanford is nice, but going off on another person’s thread - the architecture and the design of the school makes it seem impersonal compared to somethin like columbia; outside of the drive to the school, which is imposing and impressive, the school has quite a few week spots. </p>
<p>obviously i am more of a columbia fan, but also do realize they are in different leagues. columbia is truly urban, stanford is college town. columbia pretty much destroys most schools in the urban campus area because of the beauty and coherence of the design. penn is nice, but note coherence is lacking. yale is cute, but some of the quads are hit or miss, and the main quad near sterling is very staid and lacks warmth (as does Old College). it is very oxford/cambridge, but who says that is a good thing. i think cu comes on top still.</p>
<p>with denzera on swarthmore, best use of greenery of schools i’ve seen.</p>
<p>Columbia needs to raze a few blocks of housing projects to the ground, so that it will have majestic, sweeping lawns fitting for such a prestigious school.</p>
<p>Who shoved a stick up kwu’s ass?</p>
<p>Take it easy: I was joking.</p>
<p>And, Columbia does happen to be interested in expanding its campus by taking over parts of the city, if only to attract more students and professors, many of whom are dissatisfied with the campus’ current size.</p>
<p>[In</a> Growth Spurt, Columbia Is Buying Swath of Harlem](<a href=“http://www.morningside-heights.net/mvnyt.htm]In”>In Growth Spurt, Columbia Is Buying Swath of Harlem)</p>
<p>I’ve heard ridiculous things such as students feeling claustrophobic in columbia’s cloistered. I can picture it happening but then again it still seems bizarre.</p>
<p>Other than that, any school with beaux arts architecure or spanish style rooftops is pretty to me.</p>
<p>^it’s uncommon, but I’m sure it happens, people can feel isolated anywhere. the kids you talk about really should not have opted for columbia if they weren’t comfortable in a busy and sometimes crowded environment.</p>
<p>“Stanford looks like the world’s biggest Mexican restaurant” haha I read this in a book somewhere. I dont agree though, I love Stanford!</p>
<p>No one here has mentioned Princeton’s campus yet. I though it was pretty amazing.</p>
<p>^My favorite description of Stanford (which is not too far off the mark): “Large Taco Bell buildings.”</p>
<p>^^princeton’s campus is just pristine, I don’t particularly like the school and the kids that go there but the campus in the winter at least (i imagine it’s better in the winter) is just spectacular. trumps yale, I thought H was mediocre.</p>
<p>re: Stanford, that’s just classic California construction, the stucco roofs and all. There can still be elegance.</p>
<p>No one who’s been to, say, eastern europe and seen the kind of construction put up there since the 1960s would call anything on Stanford’s campus functional or soulless or the like.</p>
<p>princeton’s campus is the mediocre gothic looking campus whereas no other campus in the Nation bears Spanish style red rooftops or the architecture of Columbia’s.</p>
<p>People say MIT is ugly but there is a certain part of the campus that’s just an aesthetic piece of work. </p>
<p><a href=“http://photo.igorfoox.com/d/98-3/mit1.jpg[/url]”>http://photo.igorfoox.com/d/98-3/mit1.jpg</a></p>
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<p>^ Oh, wow. I love that.</p>
<p>Really? It’s making me paranoid.</p>