<p>I did... and it was awesome! I love this school!</p>
<p>To start out... saturday night i walked around frat row at like 12-1AM. there were some elaborate parties going on. a lot of people there were NOT from vanderbilt... lots of fisk, lsu, knoxville people. some short black guy offered me weed. apparently there was a fight in the student center that i missed.</p>
<p>On sunday I saw nashville, ate at Ralphs i think. We also went to the country music hall of fame. We walked around peabody campus... very nice.</p>
<p>Monday was PreVU. I sat and listened to the admissions person talk and all that stuff. there was a student panel with questions. I ate lunch at SATCO (thanks for the suggestion) and then went and then went back on campus, where I sat in on Buckel's Econ class at 1:10-2:00 (thanks for that suggestion too). Then I took the campus tour. There was a spoiled girl in my tourgroup that was annoying, but the other girls seemed reasonable (and every one of them, beautiful on the outside). Vanderbilt's campus is beautiful. Monday night (last night) we went to the Blair School of Music and listened to a woodwinds concert. I really dont know much about music so I won't try to describe it. </p>
<p>Tuesday, today, we flew home to CA. Hopefully I will be going back for Fall 2006... this visit made me decide on applying ED.</p>
<p>Anybody else go and have any stories or opinions?</p>
<p>taffy, Vanderbilt as of now is my top choice, and is likely that I am applying ED. Unfortunately, I'm from South Korea, and visiting Vanderbilt would be very difficult. But please do describe how beautiful the campus is - do you have any pictures? And could you please elaborate more on the parties and classes? Hopefully we'll be at Vandy for Fall 2006 as you've said.</p>
<p>Tahiti party: there was a fat volcano with steam coming out the top (with a red light on the steam to make it look like lava). </p>
<p>Shipwreck party: there was a pirate outside yelling "YARRRR"</p>
<p>Apocalypse party: I think this one was military based? im not sure. one of them had barbed wire out on the lawn and had a taliban guy hanging from a tree i think, and I saw people in camoflage there. </p>
<p>Tango party: I didnt see much on this one besides the banner. I think i heard music coming from it.</p>
<p>North vs South party: people dressed in either red white and blue or in confederate colors i think. </p>
<p>I saw a banner for an "Anything But Clothes" party, but that wasnt saturday night.</p>
<p>there were cops at the entrance to the parties to keep it safe i think. </p>
<p>I am going to the November PreVU, and Vandy is def. one of the top schools on my list!
Perhaps we will be classmates for fall 2006:) Nashville is a great place.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's a statue. The Statue of Learning. The exterior of the Heard library and that damn statue are definitely the ugliest things on campus.</p>
<p>Great pictures, there. Sorry to nitpick again, but the last picture isn't a church. That's old Union Station from back when this things called trains connected the different parts of the country. Now, it's the Union Station Hotel.</p>
<p>I'm sorry you didn't feel safe enough on Greek Row to take pictures. The recent shooting incident in Morgan notwithstanding, Vanderbilt is generally a really safe place considering it's in the middle of midtown Nashville.</p>
<p>i think the reason i didnt feel safe to take out my camera wasnt vanderbilt or the vanderbilt students, but the other kids that came from fisk or wherever that were asking for cigs and offering weed. also it seems like whenever something happens at vanderbilt, its the result of a non-vanderbilt student's actions.</p>
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<li>No one pushes marijuana on Kensington Place or 24th, much less to an H.S. kid clearly out of place.<br></li>
<li>There is no chance of getting your camera lifted on one the busiest places on campus at night.<br></li>
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<p>Flat out wrong attention getting hyperbole; 100% counter to the reality for those of us in the know.</p>
<p>After giving you the benefit of the doubt after a few carrot top and other flippant postings, I'm actually hoping you don't get accepted.</p>
<p>You're reaching. And please start capitalizing Vanderbilt. You might be a nice, sharp, and agreeable guy in person; you just don't come across well to me from your posts.</p>
<p>Dear VUAlum:
You are entitled to your opinion, but I think you are being pretty judgmental towards someone you only just met through a few postings on a message board. Let's all try to stay positive and be helpful to the students who are merely looking for guidance and opinions--we are not here to cut them down!</p>
<p>yea, u made frat row seem sketchy. pushing drugs? i have gone to frat row nearly every weekend for the last three years and i find this hard to believe. </p>
<p>also -- im currently a junior, and i have never felt unsafe at vanderbilt.</p>
<p>I didn't feel unsafe, I just didn't feel comfortable taking out my camera in a place I had never been, with a lot of people a lot older (and a lot bigger) than me.</p>
<p>and yes, there WAS a guy leaning against the wall on the west side of frat row. he didn't look much like a Vanderbilt(capitalized, just for you ;)) student. hopefully im not being too racist when i say that he was black, wearing a huge jacket, and looked like he was with the Fisk crowd i saw there. and I quote "need weed?" and I quote myself "no." believe me or not, it happened.</p>
<p>I actually dont know the likelihood of getting offered weed on frat row as I dont frequent it a whole lot (not my thing). But even if its hyperbole, its not really right to jump all over taffy. From what Ive read on CC, flippant posts are in abundance, right alongside more serious, relevant topics. The Vanderbilt thread isnt as busy as most other school's, so a silly, Im bored but have run out of questions post here and there is to be expected, I think. Also, random sidenote: in taffy's defense, that girls hair did resemble Carrot Tops, minus the zany. </p>
<p>Also:
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Apocalypse party: I think this one was military based? im not sure. one of them had barbed wire out on the lawn and had a taliban guy hanging from a tree i think
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Um, creepy. Was there also a naked torture pyramid on the lawn, à la Abu Ghraib? (not being anti-military at all; its just that people going to great lengths to celebrate torture/deaths of other humans, no matter how vile, creeps me out)</p>