<p>So a similar thread was started on the Stanford board, and I figured it’d make an interesting topic here too. This isn’t meant to be a Brown bashing (as I love the school dearly) but I think some constructive criticism is usually a good thing. </p>
<p>So, thoughts?</p>
<p>The fact that it has a super magnetic force attracting me to it, making me think about nothing else, and the fact that my inevitable rejection will leave me crushed.</p>
<p>^^^completely 100% accurate</p>
<p>agreeeeeed.</p>
<p>AGREEEDD..</p>
<p>ooohh and the seven thingss, i hate the most about Brown, the school is ****ing amaziing..
oooohh ooooo...oooohh.oooo..lalalala</p>
<p>Lol, what xSteven said.</p>
<p>Also, I don't like cold weather, and Rhode Island is cold in the winter. >__<</p>
<p>Even though I like having four seasons...</p>
<p>people are pc without knowing why
people think with their gut and not with their head
it's popular to be radical, so people get up in arms over anything they can. no, wearing maroon on the main green will not save burma.
don't call them the brown 8 like they're martyrs instead of idiots.</p>
<p>i have to agree with ClaySoul.
i love Brown and many of its qualities, but people are often shocked when I tell them Brown is at the top of my list. (i am certainly not liberal...i would say i'm pretty moderate...or even slightly conservative, but i don't really care what the above people think, so it's ok).
most of all, i'm not a fan of students being radical because it's cool. i'm not saying all Brown students are like that, but some that i know are.</p>
<p>yeah the cold weather definitely is a bad thing..
that might actually be my one and only reason for not wanting to go to brown.</p>
<p>guys i need to know more reasons to hate brown..i can't stop thinking about it!</p>
<p>i meant i cant stop thinking about wanting to go there</p>
<p>ooooh and i heard the dorms are ugly</p>
<p>Well, I think so few members of the student body take things like SDS seriously other than SDS...</p>
<p>^ then i guess my one reason is fading away. noooooo. now i'm falling under the brwon magentism.</p>
<p>Yeah I can't come up with anything . . . I loooove Brown!</p>
<p>Look, Brown's not perfect. I'm not trying to bash it--I applied e.d. there--but I knew going in that there were some flaws. My college interviewer gave me a very honest picture of what it's like. Like other people have said, it's very liberal. It's fairly known for partying and drugs. There won't be anyone there to hold your hand (he said the advising programs really aren't that great. He talked to his adviser a handful of times and gleaned next to nothing from them). If those are things that you want, or you don't care about, then good. But there isn't a perfect college. Really.</p>
<p>Advising is a generally mixed bag here, but in my experience, those who have bad advising experiences typically do so because they failed to seek out better advice. You're going to have to potentially do more than just walk into a room with someone who's your official assigned adviser to get the best information or the information you want/need. It's all about constructing an advising cohort but Brown does leave it to students to find the best way to work that for them.</p>
<p>As for partying and drugs-- perhaps amongst top top schools, but from most transfers and friends other places, Brown is remarkably tame relative to most places. Sure, we have parties and subsets of Brown that get as crazy as anywhere else, but that's a far smaller part of our culture, a culture which really spans somewhat evenly the entire spread of party real hard to never party.</p>
<p>Maybe this thread needs a jump start. I really dislike the slow pace of advancement at Brown. Some of this cannot be helped and is inherent to universities as structures, but it seems like so many fantastic things that were in the pipe to be completed by the time I left Brown are only now starting to happen or have not yet begun. Building projects and renovations and expansions take a long time to plan, approve, raise capital for, etc. It's not a money issue as much as an organizational issue. There are so many awesome things that will be done some time soon that will make Brown and even more great place to be and its frustrating in my four years to really only see some of that accomplished. Sydney Frank opened up, the new JWW is awesome, I definitely appreciate the FRISC, the renovations of the Ratty were kind of a disaster but happened, and the Walk is beginning to shape up. But where is the Nelson Fitness Center, Creative Arts Center, Mind Brain Center, and renovation of Faunce in all of this? These things were all supposed to be done 2009-2010 and for separate reasons, none of these have really even started. Sometimes it is money, sometimes it's because a new site had to be chosen, sometimes its because the design was rejected by a donor, sometimes it was because of the untimely collapse of another building, but the bottom line is that it's hard for a student to accept that four years is simply a blink of time for an organization like Brown.</p>
<p>::sigh::</p>
<p>Yeah, I absolutely LOVE Brown and I think it may be my first choice right now, but there are definitely a few flaws:</p>
<p>1) while the lack of core curriculum is obviously SO appealing, it also means that not everyone leaving the college benefits from a real liberal arts education. there's a lot more responsibility on the individual student to DECIDE to take a class in each of the different areas, instead of the university forcing him/her to.</p>
<p>2) from what i hear, it's overbearingly liberal. while there are definitely conservatives on the campus and conservative organizations, the majority of the student body is closed-mindedly liberal. I think Brown must be the most liberal in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>3) I took a Summer@Brown course and stayed in a Brown dorm... it was tiny and disgusting. there were two of us sleeping in a room the size of a typical bathroom, and it was really dirty/old/not-well-kept.</p>
<p>STILL, as I said, I LOVE BROWN MORE THAN LIFE... but I recognize that it's not perfect, just like any other school!</p>
<p>if you wanna somehow do PLME and Chemistry, you have to write sooo many essays</p>
<p>I think that compared to other campuses, Brown's is mediocre. I was not awed the way I was at Yale and Columbia, even Cornell. That didn't stop me from submitting though. I guess it was a last-minute realization that the architecture should not be a determining factor...</p>
<p>Also, all the tour guides there were extremely annoying. I don't know if it was just my luck of the draw...</p>