Harvard’s campus and vibe is underwhelming

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

It depends on if you’re obsessed with gothic architecture. I find it very ugly too and misplaced; additionally, the non-immediate surround area of New Haven is pretty shady an crumbling in parts.

You people display all the maturity of the posters who were complaining a few weeks ago that T20 dorms weren't the best. You try to sound sophisticated but just end up coming across as obtuse and snide.

Or maybe some great schools aren’t great at every single thing? Not sure why that is so hard for some people to believe.

Thin beer, buckaroo. Thin beer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

Yes one year as an intern. It was not pretty. Princeton used better stone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

You think this is ugly? I don't!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Campus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

It depends on if you’re obsessed with gothic architecture. I find it very ugly too and misplaced; additionally, the non-immediate surround area of New Haven is pretty shady an crumbling in parts.

You people display all the maturity of the posters who were complaining a few weeks ago that T20 dorms weren't the best. You try to sound sophisticated but just end up coming across as obtuse and snide.

Putting mom's thesaurus to good use tonight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm from England and the bad grass is the first thing that struck me about Harvard as well. I was expecting a campus that looked like Oxford or Cambridge and sadly it was anything but.

Well, for starters, as you should know, one cannot walk on the grass at Oxford. Look at any photo of the Radcliffe camera. It's roped off, as are the quads on all of the colleges, including my kid's.

England is an entirely different climate It's further north and has a temperate maritime climate, which is unique. It's naturally more green, like Scotland and Ireland

As for Harvard, where I went, read 22:03 on page 1. It's called brown spot. The grounds were destroyed by the DEI tents and that's about to start up soon. Also, fall is short in Boston. There's no point in doing anything now. Come May the grass for graduation will be verdant but not now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here --

another thing that was surprising is if you work with gen z/gen alpha, have kids, are going on campus visits, and/or interact with academia you've all noticed how tall these kids are these days.

that's not the case at Harvard -- it's jarring to go from a meeting at UVA to Harvard.

Harvard kids are quite short

Huh? Is this racist or just idiotic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

It depends on if you’re obsessed with gothic architecture. I find it very ugly too and misplaced; additionally, the non-immediate surround area of New Haven is pretty shady an crumbling in parts.

You people display all the maturity of the posters who were complaining a few weeks ago that T20 dorms weren't the best. You try to sound sophisticated but just end up coming across as obtuse and snide.

+++ a lot of copium going on with ivy bashing. Always is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

You think this is ugly? I don't!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Campus

+ 1

Yale is beautiful

https://campusphotos.yale.edu/portals/campus-photos/#asset/26607

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

It depends on if you’re obsessed with gothic architecture. I find it very ugly too and misplaced; additionally, the non-immediate surround area of New Haven is pretty shady an crumbling in parts.

You people display all the maturity of the posters who were complaining a few weeks ago that T20 dorms weren't the best. You try to sound sophisticated but just end up coming across as obtuse and snide.

+++ a lot of copium going on with ivy bashing. Always is.

Or, again, it’s okay to say something isn’t perfect. It’s a school, not your identity or personality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

You think this is ugly? I don't!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Campus

But the old campus doesn't match the rest of the ugly stone buildings. The old campus is more like Harvard yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here --

another thing that was surprising is if you work with gen z/gen alpha, have kids, are going on campus visits, and/or interact with academia you've all noticed how tall these kids are these days.

that's not the case at Harvard -- it's jarring to go from a meeting at UVA to Harvard.

Harvard kids are quite short

Huh? Is this racist or just idiotic?

How is this racist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

It depends on if you’re obsessed with gothic architecture. I find it very ugly too and misplaced; additionally, the non-immediate surround area of New Haven is pretty shady an crumbling in parts.

You people display all the maturity of the posters who were complaining a few weeks ago that T20 dorms weren't the best. You try to sound sophisticated but just end up coming across as obtuse and snide.

Putting mom's thesaurus to good use tonight

Yeah. You’d need to look up “maturity” in a dictionary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

It depends on if you’re obsessed with gothic architecture. I find it very ugly too and misplaced; additionally, the non-immediate surround area of New Haven is pretty shady an crumbling in parts.

You people display all the maturity of the posters who were complaining a few weeks ago that T20 dorms weren't the best. You try to sound sophisticated but just end up coming across as obtuse and snide.

+++ a lot of copium going on with ivy bashing. Always is.

Or, again, it’s okay to say something isn’t perfect. It’s a school, not your identity or personality.

It’s a measure of your own insecurity to engage in over-the-top bashing of elite schools and then, when called out, respond that no school is perfect. No one ever made that claim.

Try to grow up, or at least find another outlet for your neurosis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

It depends on if you’re obsessed with gothic architecture. I find it very ugly too and misplaced; additionally, the non-immediate surround area of New Haven is pretty shady an crumbling in parts.

You people display all the maturity of the posters who were complaining a few weeks ago that T20 dorms weren't the best. You try to sound sophisticated but just end up coming across as obtuse and snide.

+++ a lot of copium going on with ivy bashing. Always is.

To be fair, we really ought to take ivy's off that pedestal. They should have to earn their laurels more frequently instead of resting on them for centuries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure that I believe the Reddit poster really plans to leave H, they seem like they are just venting.
Yes H has an ugly campus.
Princeton has the most beautiful campus in the suburbs, if that is your thing.
Yale is in a city with all the misgivings of a big city in a small town. The buildings are ugly because the stone is not the best choice. Have you seen the architecture building there, wow, eyesore brutalist.
Brown has a pretty campus in the middle of a town similar to Yale, but not nearly as bad.
U Penn is terrible.
Columbia has a beautiful campus in a great city. Just don't go north of campus or down into Morningside Park.
Dartmouth is pretty but out in the middle of nowhere.
Cornell is pretty, but also not in the best location.

Having difficulty believing you’ve ever seen Yale’s campus. Not at all what you describe

It depends on if you’re obsessed with gothic architecture. I find it very ugly too and misplaced; additionally, the non-immediate surround area of New Haven is pretty shady an crumbling in parts.

You people display all the maturity of the posters who were complaining a few weeks ago that T20 dorms weren't the best. You try to sound sophisticated but just end up coming across as obtuse and snide.

+++ a lot of copium going on with ivy bashing. Always is.

To be fair, we really ought to take ivy's off that pedestal. They should have to earn their laurels more frequently instead of resting on them for centuries.

Well said, the entire Ivy ecosystem is a self-licking ice cream cone.