Stanford Campus Looks Like Taco Bell and is Ugly

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As my rising senior is researching colleges she has fallen in love with California mission architecture. She's not going to get into (or even apply to) Stanford but is now looking at other schools simply based on the campus. Fortunately schools where I think she would thrive so her affinity for this style might be fortuitous.

You do you, OP .....

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess, OP lives in a center hall colonial with white shutters, a red front door and orange oak floors.

Let me guess, you live in a home that resembles a hacienda in Tijuana?

Is that supposed to be some kind of insult? Plenty of people in the west have Spanish-style homes. They can be lovely.

Lol at people who believe their kids are sophisticated enough to be admitted to Stanford yet ignorant enough to understand that California has California-style architecture.

I don't think anyone doesn't understand that California has California-style architecture. I think it's ugly (particularly for a university).

It’s not ugly. You’re uncultured.

I'm sure the CEO of Taco Bell agrees with you.

like I said, uncultured. Enjoy your $3mil “colonial” that looks like a combination between lincoln logs and the exterior of the Colonial Williamsburg Fairfield Inn.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess, OP lives in a center hall colonial with white shutters, a red front door and orange oak floors.

Let me guess, you live in a home that resembles a hacienda in Tijuana?

Is that supposed to be some kind of insult? Plenty of people in the west have Spanish-style homes. They can be lovely.

Lol at people who believe their kids are sophisticated enough to be admitted to Stanford yet ignorant enough to understand that California has California-style architecture.

I don't think anyone doesn't understand that California has California-style architecture. I think it's ugly (particularly for a university).

It’s not ugly. You’re uncultured.

I'm sure the CEO of Taco Bell agrees with you.

like I said, uncultured. Enjoy your $3mil “colonial” that looks like a combination between lincoln logs and the exterior of the Colonial Williamsburg Fairfield Inn.

You are so mad, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would prefer sending my kid to a college that resembles a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

They would have a great Alma Mater to sing at every game.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qvo7CfEf0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As my rising senior is researching colleges she has fallen in love with California mission architecture. She's not going to get into (or even apply to) Stanford but is now looking at other schools simply based on the campus. Fortunately schools where I think she would thrive so her affinity for this style might be fortuitous.

You do you, OP .....

See! Architecture matters! Yay!

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer sending my kid to a college that resembles a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

They would have a great Alma Mater to sing at every game.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qvo7CfEf0

Brilliant!

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Anonymous wrote:OP do you mean Spanish mission architecture? We go to different Taco Bells, and clearly you haven't spent much time in California. Please don't go around spouting off this uninformed opinion. It makes you sound petite bourgeoisie.

I love it. Absolutely gorgeous.

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Stanford >> Duke

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess, OP lives in a center hall colonial with white shutters, a red front door and orange oak floors.

Let me guess, you live in a home that resembles a hacienda in Tijuana?

Is that supposed to be some kind of insult? Plenty of people in the west have Spanish-style homes. They can be lovely.

Lol at people who believe their kids are sophisticated enough to be admitted to Stanford yet ignorant enough to understand that California has California-style architecture.

I don't think anyone doesn't understand that California has California-style architecture. I think it's ugly (particularly for a university).

It’s not ugly. You’re uncultured.

I'm sure the CEO of Taco Bell agrees with you.

like I said, uncultured. Enjoy your $3mil “colonial” that looks like a combination between lincoln logs and the exterior of the Colonial Williamsburg Fairfield Inn.

You are so mad, lol.

This person really is triggered. Calling people uncultured? OK PP, I grew up in CA in a Mission style home in Malibu which I loved. Also attended Stanford and thought the campus was ugly because it looks fake and out of place. I guess I'm uncultured.

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Anonymous wrote:OP do you mean Spanish mission architecture? We go to different Taco Bells, and clearly you haven't spent much time in California. Please don't go around spouting off this uninformed opinion. It makes you sound petite bourgeoisie.

I wonder where OP is from. I'm from S Texas, Hispanic, and I love this style of architecture because it reminds me of home. UT ATX doesn't have the exact same style but doesn't utilize the red, terracotta tiled roof. My home was nothing but Saltillo tile. It's just the style in certain areas because of local product.

I think OP needs to get out more. TBH, I prefer these warm styles over cold, drab E coast looks. But I think it does depend on what you grew up with.

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer sending my kid to a college that resembles a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

It's 2024 and white people still argue about things that they think look and feel too "ethnic". It's really unbelievable.

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Anonymous wrote:Grow up. It's not a resort or a spa. It's an academic institution granting a world class education.

How grim.

The wretched architecture of the west coast combined with dour grimness and grind of an elite university.

“Wretched” lmao. Sorry that the west coast doesn’t have shitty dilapidated colonial buildings that look like depression statues in the winter.

Mission revival is really beautiful, especially in the areas with rolling hills and valleys. I still dislike the Stanford campus, but that’s more so, because it never ever ever ends and is in a suburb

The suburban aspect is really awful. It feels like a never-ending strip mall.

It really sucks because it had just a little bit more of a forested or non-suburban feel, it’d basically be California Duke for me

This is such an odd thing to say. That part of the peninsula is pretty dry and definitely not forested. Whatever you might think of the architecture, the campus overall is designed to allow students to soak in the area's climate and nature. This was actually one of Jane Stanford's goals. It's certainly not New England...and it's not even Berkeley which is much hillier and greener. But don't go to school on the peninsula if you don't like the feel of Stanford campus.

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer sending my kid to a college that resembles a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

It's 2024 and white people still argue about things that they think look and feel too "ethnic". It's really unbelievable.

The irony being that this is the architecture of missionaries from Spain...

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So much free-floating anxiety and insecurity, with a touch of boredom, on display in this thread, starting with OP.

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer sending my kid to a college that resembles a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

It's 2024 and white people still argue about things that they think look and feel too "ethnic". It's really unbelievable.

Whoosh!

(That was a joke. It's a reference to a song from about 15 years ago that was all the rage for a couple months. See the "Alma Mater" post a few above.)