<p>700 isnt bad...but its not nearly as good as a 800/760...so im pleased.</p>
<p>what other places dont use writing? all the other places i know use it.</p>
<p>Georgetown is pretty bad with just about anything administrative. Overpriced and not very good cafeteria food, basically no weekend GUTS bus service, maintenance problems with the dorms, construction all the time, Darnall sitting empty, etc. etc. etc.</p>
<p>Haha, I am so a-religious (not baptized, not churchified, nothing) and I didn't even blink at the fact that Georgetown was Catholic. The school is not owned by the Church. We were the first university in the United States to employ a full time Muslim Imam. In fact, just the other day I saw a sign advertising a lecture about how Georgetown didn't have/was losing its Catholic identity. </p>
<p>dzleprechaun- you have had problems with maintenance? I was just thinking how impressed I was with them. We were having problems with our sink and the guy came over at 11:30 at night to fix it!</p>
<p>The lack of buses on the weekend sucks, I will agree. One Saturday (when buses are supposed to come once an hour) I sat on a corner in Dupont for an hour until we finally took the G2 home. I would gladly sign any petition that came my way to put a metro stop in Georgetown. </p>
<p>As far as Georgetown being snobby. This is a private school. People are upperclass. There are also normal people who wear jeans and t-shirts. I would be quick to call out any GW student who calls US snobby in relation to themselves...the last I heard, GW was the 3rd most expensive school in the country..Georgetown was not #1 or 2...</p>
<p>Also, seeing college age students in suits===awesome. It's what is so special about Georgetown. It also reflects the city outside the gates..DC is a formal city, just try cruising around the House Office buildings or on M St. during rush hour.</p>
<p>i hear the maintenence people are amazing and try really hard, but can't keep up with the amount of things that break.</p>
<p>and i read in the independant (a gu newspaper) a funny article written by a girl about a cockroach falling on her head in a dorm.</p>
<p>How often do the buses come and how long of a walk is it to the metro station?</p>
<p>They run pretty frequently on the weekdays. It does suck that they don't run enough on weekends, but I think people are working on that. <a href="http://otm.georgetown.edu/guts/index.cfm?fuse=glance%5B/url%5D">http://otm.georgetown.edu/guts/index.cfm?fuse=glance</a> is a schedule of when the go to different locations if you're curious. </p>
<p>The nearest metro stop is Rosslyn which is just across the river, maybe like a 15 minute walk. You could also walk to the stop in Dupont Circle or Foggy Bottom, they are pretty far but managable.</p>
<p>Hehe, I'm an editor with the independent, and that cockroach incident took place in my dorm. Yea, the maintenance guys are great, but they are overworked. More than that, there's some things that are more than just specific room issues, like the lack of hot water Village C East has been experiencing from like 8:30 to about noon. And the fact that stuff keeps like exploding in Harbin and twice this week everyone's been kicked out of it at 8 am with fire trucks everywhere and whatnot.</p>
<p>hehe...
living in gu dorms must be an adventure!</p>
<p>one of the reasons i would love to go to georgetown is so i could debate (argue?) with the uber religious and/or conservative. i want to be exposed to their views. everyone i know is soo liberal. its kind of sad that i dont know anyone who isnt anti abortion, anti gay marriage, or extremely religious, when that is how most people feel. i need to get in touch with reality.</p>
<p>that's a good reason to go to g-town: it's a normal (as in NOT Liberty University) college that isn't totally leftist.</p>
<p>combatbaby, I envy you; I'm a liberal in the extreme conservative south; I'm tired of hearing "but GOD" this or "GOD" that and I just can't find any logical views here...some people down here think athiests are devils</p>
<p>haha...i wouldn't fare too well where you live, anon</p>
<p>it seems like georgetown is like most liberal universities. my friend tells me that the college democrats have more than twice the membership of the college republicans even though the republicans are better organized. and its religious affiliation is minimal compared to schools like notre dame or boston college. half the school isnt catholic and of the 50% who consider themselves catholic many are not practicing.</p>
<p>Man, I hate people that are like "I am persecuted because I am atheist. No one can take my enlightened liberal views. The angst!!!oneone!1"</p>
<p>Now, I am agnostic and founder/president of the Socialist Movement at my school just to prempt the "You don't listen and silence me because you are Republican and recite Jesus at me" response.</p>
<p>I used to be VP of the Young Democrats here, but I came to see that it was really just a joke. "Ok guys, we are just going to post things around school that say the opposite of what those Teenage Republicans say."</p>
<p>So rather than being like "I am going to make fun of those bible humpers for saying that they do things because God says to i.e. abortion, gay marriage, etc." The Socialist Movement sorta of well...actually does things. Like cleaning parks, volunteering at homeless shelters, working in hospitals, tutoring for free, and this summer, 10 of us are flying to Uganda this summer to build communities for the "invisible children" that travel miles each night from villages to towns so that they won't be abducted, taken to the "wilderness", desensitized to violence through multiple beating/killing of friends, and trained to fight for the rebel army. Take a look and maybe do something to justify the privilaged life of education, material wealth, and consumption of world resourses rather than your bi tch a ss wining. <a href="http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php</a></p>
<p>I bet you were one of the people that rejoiced when Cheney shot that guy in the face, because it some how showed his "ineptness" to be VP. Man, I have a kid just like you in my scripture class that uses every chance he gets to proclaim his higher state of existence because he doesn't believe in Jesus or his profound understanding of anarchy/communism/whatever after reading half a webpage about it.</p>
<p>For those of you interested, here is a more specific link pertaining on how you can get involved.</p>
<p>smoke&mirrors - </p>
<p>no one said anything worthy of reacting like you did. im not surprised that the young democrats act like that (as it seems to be a reflection of what is happening on a national scale), but really - being a person with liberal ideas around a ton of religious conservatives for a lifetime can be TIRING.</p>
<p>no one said anything about making fun of anyone else.</p>
<p>and as far as I go, for the record, i am known as the "great equilizer" by friends: i am conservative among liberals, and liberal among conservatives (not on purpose). but being strictly around people whose moral code is unchanging and unwilling to accept difference if it is considered sinful is aggravating to a person who loves intellectual discourse. period.</p>
<p>i just wanted to clarify.</p>
<p>And I want to clarify that I don't have hatred toward Republicans in any way. Infact, I have quite a few Republican friends. It's simply the political views that get to me.</p>
<p>I know you guys didn't deserve that. It was more of a generic rant used as a venting mechanism I guess. </p>
<p>Yeah, I feel much better now though. Been on my chest for awhile.
Cool.</p>
<p>(I go to an all male Jesuit school, so I get the majority conservative crowds with the rest rejecting it like the people I talk about above. Quite frustrating) </p>
<p>Good Luck Guys, In Whatever.</p>
<p>Thanks, you too.</p>
<p>the school i go to know is pretty left, socially speaking. only 1 person in our class is against cannibalism if both parties agree to it (the eater and the to-be-eaten). and that person is our 40 year old teacher. so georgetown is a perfect mix and probably doesnt have that many devout religious fundamentalists...i can only assume</p>