<p>Annapoliis is a great town - surrounded by water, charming, historic buildings, great pubs...there is the occasional mugging but nothing like big city stuff. Plus St. John's is a beautiful campus - 3rd oldest in the country after Wm. and mary and Harvard I think....</p>
<p>It didn't become a college until about 100 years later (it was a prep-school before)--so it is not technically the 3rd oldest college in country.
With that said, St. John's in Annapolis has a beautiful campus. The St. John's campus in Santa Fe is also amazingly beautiful.
But this thread is about ugly colleges:
I didn't like MIT at all.</p>
<p>OK, this will strike a lot of you a bizarre. I'd always heard a lot about the setting of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, so when I was down there last year I made a special trip to drop by. I thought it was depressing. Yes, it's on the Gulf with a beautiful coastline nearby. But the buildings all look like temporary frame-and-plywood, painted tacky colors. The grass was uncut and landscaping was non-existent. Everything about it struck me as cheaply constructed and poorly maintained. I'd allowed myself a couple hours to tour the campus; after 15 minutes, I was gone.</p>
<p>Tennessee Tech is pretty awful, some of the rooms have insulation on the ceiling that looks like mold growing in a cave...</p>
<p>Of the better known colleges, like a lot of people apparently, I wan't crazy about MIT. The (older, classic looking) buildings weren't ugly, but they were kind of imposing and unwelcoming. The newer buildings were just depressing, except for the new Gehry, which is phenomenal.</p>
<p>Ohio Business College :)</p>
<p>It's in some shanty like 5 room building in the middle of a deserted town.</p>
<p>I bet no one can beat that!</p>
<p>SUNY ALBANY is the worst</p>
<p>texas tech, UC riverside</p>
<p>You cant take these kind of posts personally, because it's all about how the school hits you. What day you visited, what schools had you just visited before..etc.</p>
<p>For me, I thought Tufts would be the perfect school. It was strong in political science, not too strict on the top 10% thing, and in Boston. The campus...SO depressing. And it really made me made that I filled out this card with my info on it which got scanned through a computer and then they printed this thing. It came out all weird, so I told them to correct it and wrote my name out more clearly. I got a letter in the mail a few weeks letter with my name written "KEBPAIRW" or something else ineligible.</p>
<p>I didnt really hate any schools at all, however Wesleyan bothered me a bit - some of the older dorms just kind of depressed me. I felt like I was stuck in the 70s. I still planned on applying though, as the main quad area was really pretty and the rest of the school was nice. One of my favorites, just some weird bad spots.</p>
<p>My least favorite "prestige" school was Penn. I felt like everything was miniature and I couldn't fit through doorways (I'm 6'5). Also, it was overly secure and creepy - to get into this little activity center kind of thing the tour guide had to spend about 15 minutes negotiating with the security guard. Weird. I hate schools that are overly secure. There is nothing scary about the area around Penn, just because they are black doesn't mean they are going to murder you. Ugh, that bothers me beyond belief.</p>
<p>Brandeis was disgusting.</p>
<p>Annapolis is amazing, and of Maryland is fairly nice. Baltimore is possibly the worst city ever (the inner harbor is nice though), and College Park is a ghetto.</p>
<p>Bowling Green State University in "scenic" Bowling Green, Ohio. Ugliest, most depressing place ever.</p>
<p>I liked Amherst's campus, but I thought Williams' was cold (then again, it was freezing at the time). But both of them have natural beauty that keeps them out of any "worst" list.</p>
<p>People have been criticizing Harvard, but for me, walking from bustling, commercial Harvard Square through the iron gates into the calm Yard, I definitely felt <b>something</b> cool.</p>
<p>Ugly? UMDCP - there's always construction going on and all the red brick gets old. UPEnn is creepy - so closed in and crowded - like fresh air can't get to it - and it's playing field, surrounded by chain link fencing, is depressing. MIT is grey, cold, and four cornered (perfect really for an analytical, engineering type mentality - no?)</p>
<p>UC Riverside has got to be the most god-ugly campus in the country. I wouldn't send my dog to obedience school there.</p>
<p>Stay Out of Riverside</p>
<p>I hate it when people exist on these boards only to trash schools, like UC Riverside. Sounds like a bitter rejectee. Aren't there better ways to get out frustration? How immature.</p>
<p>i've heard brandeis and drexel</p>
<p>Well, you definitely have the right to disagree. Of all the campuses I've visited, UC Riverside is by far the most repugnant. The school is located in the middle of a dusty, inbred, wasteland known as Riverside. The smog is unbearable. The town is full of hicks and bums. The buildings in campus are 100% fugly...very uninteresting architecture. Even the newer buildings have a repulsive barn-motif. I mean, look, if I wanted to til the soil instead of get an education, I guess the "barn/farm"-look might be somewhat more appealing. And let's not forget the tumbleweed - straight out of a Western movie. In my experience, 90% of the people who see UCR and are not repulsed by it haven't actually "seen" anything better - because they've been isolated in the Inbred/Inland Empire their entire lives. The other 10% come from even uglier places. </p>
<p>So I'm sorry, but the fact of the matter is, UCR is indeed, the worst campus I've seen - which is EXACTLY what the OP was asking for. You are welcome to post your opinion on this.</p>
<p>Stay Out of Riverside</p>
<p>"I hate it when people exist on these boards only to trash schools, like UC Riverside. Sounds like a bitter rejectee. Aren't there better ways to get out frustration? How immature."</p>
<p>riverside is pretty bad.</p>
<p>IMO, though, the ugliest campuses i've seen are Drexel, NYU, MIT, Rutgers.</p>
<p>I agree, Riverside is horrendous.</p>
<p>Responding to one of the early posts, Uni of South Carolina has a really nice campus. Loved going there for USFIRST competition last year.</p>
<p>i definitely agree with Riverside being atrocious. Among UCs, i would also add Davis (eck, suburb/cows/ugly architecture) and UCSF (grad school, hospital buildings are uniformly ugly across all states, countries and continents, and UCSF is one big hospital complex.
As much as i love san francisco, i would add SFSU as an ugly campus, because the buildings are just, so, so incredibly square and cheap looking. It has a nice quad and neighborhood, but campus buildings are nice. While Im at it, all the other SF schools are beautiful.. USF has one of the nicest urban campuses, and a BEAUTIFUL chapel on top of a hill, whole campus has a view. UC hastings (law) has nice buildings, is in a nasty neighborhood, but its the right neighborhood for a law school (with the federal building, state building and city hall, along with the 9th circuit court, all within 3 blocks.. gotta be the greatest location for a law school ever (well, outside of D.C.))</p>