Most beautiful college campus?

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford looks like a collection of Taco Bells.

LOL

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http://motivationals.org/demotivational-posters/demotivational-poster-16335.jpg

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57496230/cornell-putting-nets-over-gorges-to-stop-suicides/

Says that suicide rate is normal. They are just very dramatic suicides.

What it says is that "Cornell maintains the suicide rate is normal. . ." What do you expect the school to say?

Normal? Normal for Cornell maybe. I wonder if most suicides occur during the dismal winter? the campus is very pretty for the first few weeks of the fall term.

this is enough to make me jump: http://www.isso.cornell.edu/ithacalife/winter.php

Gee you would think they are trying to get people to NOT go there! My nephew went as a freshman and lasted one semester, wasn't for him, weather being one part of it. There is something for everyone.

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hahahaha "the summers you may have spent on the Vineyard"

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On a long drive through Massachusetts, I stopped in S. Hadley and fell in love with Mt. Holyoke. I was 18 and already headed off to college somewhere else but since I had gone to an all girls' high school, I dug up the Mt. Holyoke brochure and almost transferred there.

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Vanderbilt. The campus is a national arboretum. http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalvu/sets/72157623555141080/

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone from this area considering college in New England really needs to make sure they understand the challenge of the climate. The summers you may have spent in Maine, Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard have NOT prepared you for what you experience the academic year (typically late August through early May.)

First the good news, late summer and autumn are great. You can still catch some of that if you visit at this time. But then winter begins to set in. New England stays cold for a long time due to the cold ocean water. April is still very much a cold month – so ¾ of the academic year is pretty dreary. Then there are the short days. New England very east in the time zone, so some days it is dark by 4:15pm. For early risers, the mornings are much lighter than places further west in the Eastern time zone – but most college students don’t wake up at 5:30 AM.

Bottom line: there is a reason that 95% of the photos you’ll see in NE college brochures show Autumn colors.

I can't believe there are so many weather pu$$ies complaining on here.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone from this area considering college in New England really needs to make sure they understand the challenge of the climate. The summers you may have spent in Maine, Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard have NOT prepared you for what you experience the academic year (typically late August through early May.)

First the good news, late summer and autumn are great. You can still catch some of that if you visit at this time. But then winter begins to set in. New England stays cold for a long time due to the cold ocean water. April is still very much a cold month – so ¾ of the academic year is pretty dreary. Then there are the short days. New England very east in the time zone, so some days it is dark by 4:15pm. For early risers, the mornings are much lighter than places further west in the Eastern time zone – but most college students don’t wake up at 5:30 AM.

Bottom line: there is a reason that 95% of the photos you’ll see in NE college brochures show Autumn colors.

I can't believe there are so many weather pu$$ies complaining on here.

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Native Mainer here. The proximity to the water makes the weather more temperate, not colder. Maine is not nearly as cold as e.g. Minnesota or the Dakotas. And spring and fall in New England are far, FAR nicer than they are here - the humid temperate fall here doesn't begin to compare with the crisp fall air of New England in October.

Many people who go to college in New England never leave - and who can blame them?

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Anonymous wrote:Many of the NESCAQ'S Amherst, Connecticut College, Wesleyan, Hamilton are all beautiful quintessential New England college campuses.

Yes. Add Trinity College in Hartford to that list. And Smith.

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" Many people who go to college in New England never leave - and who can blame them? "

The vast majority who stay were from NE to begin with. I've yet to meet a single person from the West who went to college in NE and stayed there. If you don't know better the weather doesn't seem like a big deal.

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Cornell Univ.

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Virginia Tech

Sweet Briar
Randolph-Macon Women's College (changed names after it went co-ed) not sure about new name
Lynchburg College

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In September/October maybe, but not during "suicide season."

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In September/October maybe, but not during "suicide season."

Stop exaggerating. I bet you either didn't get in or went to a rival school. There were 2 suicides into the gorges when I was there and they were actually in the spring. They were not jumping into ice. And, like someone said before, the high suicide rate is a myth.

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Guilford College in April