<p>Do they exist? What are they?
Comments/complaints???</p>
<p>come one people... please! i want to love brandeis but i'm getting stuck on stupid things like campus, traditions, social life.</p>
<p>I hear from a current junior who loves Brandeis that many students like to spend weekend days in Boston together. A shuttle bus makes it easy (maybe 20 min) to get right to Newbury St. in Boston, which is a great area with cafes, music, shopping, and real urban elegance not just mall shopping like every other suburb!!</p>
<p>They go in informal groups, roaming the streets of Boston together, which is certainly THE college city of America. </p>
<p>I heard from my nephew who's entering the class of 2011 that everybody's on a LiveJournal, not here. So find where the other incoming students are actually talking to each other!</p>
<p>The livejournal group is good (just called Brandeis)- if you can catch the sarcasm. I'm friends with a bunch of people who post and they're extremely sarcastic which can come off as extreme negativity. :P</p>
<p>I don't know if we necessarily have traditions... quite a few people go to Boston every weekend (like me) but other people go maybe once every month or every other month (like my roommate). There's enough to do on campus that it's not like you HAVE to go to Boston, but I go by myself a lot just for fun. </p>
<p>Hmm... the less you wear the less you pay dance and liquid latex I suppose are traditions. Brandeis kids like to get naked for a cause. </p>
<p>And I guess you could consider the whole aura of political activeness a "tradition" with the school. After all, 3 of the 8 women in the FBI's most wanted list were Brandeis students (Angela Davis and 2 other radical activists who robbed a bank), and we had Abbie Hoffman (who, if you don't know him, was the guy at the hippie rally in the flag shirt in Forrest Gump).</p>
<p>whoa, 3 of the 8 women on the FBI's most wanted list are Deis alum?</p>
<p>that's kinda scary. I'm proud of the whole Angela/Abbie legacy, but ha...man...</p>
<p>The other two are Susan Saxe and Katherine Anne Power. Gives Brandeis a lead of two over University of Chicago (Bernardine Dohrn).</p>
<p>Does Brandeis still have Bronstein Day or Bronstein Weekend? Used to be a big partying day in honor of a beloved professor.</p>
<p>Mmm, Bernadine Dohrn's brother-in-law was a teacher of mine in high school. Her son was also a teaching assistant in another one of my classes.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice about LJ.</p>
<p>Yes, Bronstein week is still in effect, we have it this week actually! All kinds of events are happening this week because of it. Also, we have things like Louisplaooza to kick off the basketball season and much more.</p>
<p>That's funny, Nathaniel. It started out as Bronstein Day (I visited that day the spring of my senior year of h.s. and was SOLD on Brandeis!), then it became Bronstein Weekend -- and now you say it's Bronstein Week! LOL. Have a great time.</p>