s/o Most Beautiful College Campuses

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Anonymous wrote:UNC Chapel Hill has a lovely, picturesque campus and is located in a quintessential, charming college town.

That campus now seems overbuilt.

This. Went for a basketball game recently and didn't recognize the town I knew in sprawl that has become DuramChapelHill.

[Anonymous]

Almost every college campus I've been on has been pretty amazing. The exceptions are some city schools that lack a real campus, but that's more about my personal preference. Clearly, plenty of kids find those schools exciting to go to.

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Recently toured all the ivy schools, one full day for each. Yale and Princeton are the obvious two outstanding in terms of campus beauty. Saw many pictures of the two schools before, but were really awed by the in-person visit. One should pay them a visit and walk the ground yourself to feel the sensation if these schools are on your mind for application. None of the other campuses can quite strike one with this unusual feeling.

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Anonymous wrote:Recently toured all the ivy schools, one full day for each. Yale and Princeton are the obvious two outstanding in terms of campus beauty. Saw many pictures of the two schools before, but were really awed by the in-person visit. One should pay them a visit and walk the ground yourself to feel the sensation if these schools are on your mind for application. None of the other campuses can quite strike one with this unusual feeling.

In my view they are something like this:

Princeton - nicest overall
Yale - best architecture
Cornell - best setting (on a nice day)
Dartmouth - second best setting and an LAC feel
Harvard - interesting location, but campus doesn't really come together
Brown - eclectic, but not really distinguished
Columbia - nice central area, but you've got to like urban
Penn - some nice parts, but not notable overall

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There are some nice "flyover" / mid-western campuses:

Chicago
IU
Notre Dame
Kenyon
Colorado
Washington University
Rice
Northwestern
Iowa State
Grinnell
St Olaf
Carleton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Recently toured all the ivy schools, one full day for each. Yale and Princeton are the obvious two outstanding in terms of campus beauty. Saw many pictures of the two schools before, but were really awed by the in-person visit. One should pay them a visit and walk the ground yourself to feel the sensation if these schools are on your mind for application. None of the other campuses can quite strike one with this unusual feeling.

I’ve visited all the Ivies except Cornell and Dartmouth and would agree with that assessment. The energy of Harvard Square is what distinguishes Harvard but the beauty of the Yale and Princeton campuses leaves more of an impression.

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elon and furman

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Anonymous wrote:UCSB for nature - hard to beat Pacific ocean on three sides and mountain on the other. The mid twentieth century - modern Architecture is a matter of taste but it fits the gorgeous nature in that it does not compete with it but facilitates a relaxed, bike centric college experience … very different vibe most to NE USA colleges but beautiful in a different way …

Sorry that campus is HIDEOUS. The only thing it has going for it is the Pacific. Otherwise, the buildings look circa 1960 Soviet Union.

Unlike NE historic campuses, UCSB allows space for one’s mind to create its own narrative and it does not compete with the sublime nature for attention from styles popular with our European colonizers …

“Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder



“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays



“The quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut



“Beauty Is In The Mind of The Beholder.”
― Amit Abraham



Even, if I were to agree with you that UCSB architecture represents the height of bad taste, which I do not, there is a certain allure to architecture that defies the stifling boundaries of good taste …



Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. Votes: 1

Charles Bukowski
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Votes: 1

Jean Genet
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. Votes: 1

Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. Votes: 1

Mel Brooks
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. Votes: 1

Charles Baudelaire


It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. Votes: 1

D. H. Lawrence


In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. Votes: 1

Russell Lynes

Wow, really butthurt about your alma mater!

[Anonymous]

Dartmouth and Wellesley

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UCSB for nature - hard to beat Pacific ocean on three sides and mountain on the other. The mid twentieth century - modern Architecture is a matter of taste but it fits the gorgeous nature in that it does not compete with it but facilitates a relaxed, bike centric college experience … very different vibe most to NE USA colleges but beautiful in a different way …

Sorry that campus is HIDEOUS. The only thing it has going for it is the Pacific. Otherwise, the buildings look circa 1960 Soviet Union.

Unlike NE historic campuses, UCSB allows space for one’s mind to create its own narrative and it does not compete with the sublime nature for attention from styles popular with our European colonizers …

“Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder



“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays



“The quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut



“Beauty Is In The Mind of The Beholder.”
― Amit Abraham



Even, if I were to agree with you that UCSB architecture represents the height of bad taste, which I do not, there is a certain allure to architecture that defies the stifling boundaries of good taste …



Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. Votes: 1

Charles Bukowski
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Votes: 1

Jean Genet
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. Votes: 1

Mel Brooks
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. Votes: 1

Mel Brooks
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. Votes: 1

Charles Baudelaire


It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. Votes: 1

D. H. Lawrence


In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. Votes: 1

Russell Lynes

Wow, really butthurt about your alma mater!

actually my alma mater is in another country ... but find the natural campus of UCSB gorgeous .... and unique ...

[Anonymous]

I agree with the prior posters regarding University of Wisconsin. And the best farmer’s market in the country too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m thinking PP smoked enough weed that UCSB was always beautiful (even if someone hazy) to them.

Don’t do weed or other illegal substances …. and apparently you have trouble grasping nuance around the obvious fact that taste is not universal ….

You’d have to be blind to not see how beautiful the nature around UCSB is. The buildings don’t compete with that breath taking natural beauty ….

While some of the architecture is absolutely hideous, the FEELING of the campus is beautiful. It’s hard to put your finger on, but the nature, the ocean, the plant life, the students biking around, the air…. something about it creates this feeling. If I was a student, I’d love to go there.

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Anonymous wrote:University of Puget Sound. Pretty buildings. Nice quad. Lots of evergreens. In a nice city (Tacoma) but you can still see Mount Ranier.

Now THIS is a good one. Never heard of the school. Looked it up - so pretty and unique.

[Anonymous]

I would definitely add the University of Richmond to this list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would definitely add the University of Richmond to this list.

Agree, it's beautiful. I also love the UNC Chapel Hill campus.