<p>I really love Brown, and havn’t regretting coming here for a second. That said, there are some tradeoffs I unknowingly made in coming here that I wish someone had told me about.</p>
<pre><code> 1. One of the two cafeterias closes on weekends. For those of us who live on the Pembroke side of campus, this means a couple blocks for breakfast (blueroom) and a couple more blocks if we’d rather use our meal credit somewhere with unlimited food (ratty). There’s a pretty good place that accepts meal credits and opens after four and the pembroke side of things, so this really isnt that bad.
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Lower level math courses arn’t that great. Many (most) are taught by graduate students who, more frequently than not, have a very strong accent and can be hard to understand. While there are some great teachers in the mix, you really have to look hard (and sometimes move your schedule around like crazy) to find them.
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Some of the intro courses tend to be really big. I’m in intro comp sci and intro engineering, and both have well upwards of 100 folks. This actually is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Both the profs for these classes are so good (and funny) they manage to keep everyone’s attention. I even got an unsolicited personal email for my engineering prof the second week of school.
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<p>hmmm… I thought I had some other negative things to say, but they slip my mind at the moment. Realize in reading this that I could think of a LOT more good things to say about Brown. The best thing (in my mind) about Brown, which could make up for an unholy amount of bad, is the people. A note for those of you applying, they really seem to go for quirky people who are really passionate about something (or more than one something). You see so many different perspectives here that you get in a mindset of acceptance. People can and are even expected to do whatever they want and aren’t ever questioned or judged because of it.</p>
<p>I’ll shut up now.</p>