Harvard’s campus and vibe is underwhelming

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Anonymous wrote:the grass!? It's called Brown Patch, OP . Also the grass got trampled last year in the quad and before Widener by the DEI protesters who put up tents and destroyed the lawn. Why put money into it when they are undoubtedly returning this fall to camp out again?https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/massachusetts/worcester-ma/4-common-lawn-diseases-found-in-massachusetts/

The grass is watered with the tears of antisemites.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel the recent flurry of anti-x college threads are flailing attempts to tamp down applications.

More likely first-impression feedback from parents who have recently done a college tour (expectations vs reality).

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Sure you can't walk on a lot of the grass in Oxbridge but overall the look, feel, maintenance, and overall vibes are a million times better than Harvard. Which was truly scruffy.

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Harvard looks fine. It has a few very pretty views across the bridge, but it’s mostly the old style reminiscent of a boarding school, which isn’t awful.

Going to Harvard and expecting modern grandeur like the messy hodgepodge of northwestern is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure you can't walk on a lot of the grass in Oxbridge but overall the look, feel, maintenance, and overall vibes are a million times better than Harvard. Which was truly scruffy.

Last, I knew when there you couldnt walk in the grass in Harvard Yard -it was roped off but that may be due to seasonal seeding

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard looks fine. It has a few very pretty views across the bridge, but it’s mostly the old style reminiscent of a boarding school, which isn’t awful.

Going to Harvard and expecting modern grandeur like the messy hodgepodge of northwestern is ridiculous.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard looks fine. It has a few very pretty views across the bridge, but it’s mostly the old style reminiscent of a boarding school, which isn’t awful.

Going to Harvard and expecting modern grandeur like the messy hodgepodge of northwestern is ridiculous.

+1

+2. haters gotta hate

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Anonymous wrote:Sure you can't walk on a lot of the grass in Oxbridge but overall the look, feel, maintenance, and overall vibes are a million times better than Harvard. Which was truly scruffy.

Last, I knew when there you couldnt walk in the grass in Harvard Yard -it was roped off but that may be due to seasonal seeding

I did with my dc during move in! It’s usually accessible.

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No one goes to Harvard for the state of the lawn and no one would turn down an acceptance because of the state of the lawn. End thread.

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Harvard’s grass is fine. I don’t believe it has a sprinkler system. It’s all organic. Most of the houses have been remodeled. It’s very nice inside.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard’s grass is fine. I don’t believe it has a sprinkler system. It’s all organic. Most of the houses have been remodeled. It’s very nice inside.

The inside of Harvard buildings are gorgeous. It’s quaint in that way.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard looks fine. It has a few very pretty views across the bridge, but it’s mostly the old style reminiscent of a boarding school, which isn’t awful.

Going to Harvard and expecting modern grandeur like the messy hodgepodge of northwestern is ridiculous.

+1

+2. haters gotta hate

Lol, yes, anyone who points out any deficiency in Our Lord and Savior Harvard University is a hater and can’t possibly be making a valid point.

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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.

Oxzford doesn't allow students to walk on the grass, so it's not in the same category.

My college did in most areas.

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t get over how touristy the whole place felt. Mind you, I was one of them 😂

Me too. It also felt too congested with people and traffic and too high end commercial. And, all the colonial architecture just made me feel like suburban Virginia! DD liked it way more than I did, but maybe that's because we don't get as much colonial in MD as in VA.

i gather you don't like colonial? But you need to learn your history. Colonial architecture was the predominant style from the 17th - 19th centures in ALL of Northern America (which includes Maryland). Colonial architecture is all over the south too!

Too funny. Yes, I am aware of the history of the style. I have a history degree. Just talking observation of style proliferation (faux exponentially off authentic). It's just greater in VA than MD. My guess is you live in neither. My 2nd guess is that you don't have a history degree. What I know for sure is that you were so intent on schooling me, you missed what I was actually saying. But, whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard yard’s grass is terribly maintained considering the resources available.

The buildings are copy and paste Georgian brick and not done well.

Cambridge is nicer than New Haven or Providence but Yale and brown have way better campuses

As for the vibes and kids — a lot of convergence with MIT

I don’t remember the difference between Harvard kids vibes/look being this different from BC kids 20 years ago but in 2024 they seem to be starkly different

Are you the poster that compared Stanford to Taco Bell?