s/o Most Beautiful College Campuses

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Anonymous wrote:We thought Wash U was gorgeous.

Except it's in Missouri

So what? Why do you hate America so much?

America is amazing! Missouri is not.

St. Louis is blue. Missouri could easily go blue. Maybe you post like this to discourage Democrats from moving to Missouri and casting votes in Missouri.

That’s like saying cities in TX are blue

Texas could easily go blue. The people telling liberal and progressive students to avoid Texas are either foolish or Republicans.

DP, but native Texans are more likely to be Democrats and, if the state wasn't gerrymandered to Republican dreams, it would be a blue state. It's overwhelmingly Republican transplants and a growing movement to the right by border hispanic populations that is soon to sink the state, however.

Is this satire? Native Texans are absolutely more likely to be Republicans. I’m originally from Texas and actually laughed when I read this post.
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I'm from Texas too, what part were you in? Most of the cities are boring liberals. Most of the republican counties, well...I never travelled in those. The state has actual gerrymandering issues and why would most liberals vote, they get no incentive. Even then, in recent races its been pretty close

I'm betting that she's from Lubbock.

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Princeton is still pretty but is rapidly getting overbuilt. Recent projects like the new colleges and art museum have turned their back on what made the campus special.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is still pretty but is rapidly getting overbuilt. Recent projects like the new colleges and art museum have turned their back on what made the campus special.

I see no issue if it means they can educate more students. It is illegal to build half of their buildings anyway.

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UC Santa Cruz, Yale, Amherst, Rice, Duke.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxford and Cambridge have it all for beautiful architecture, gardens and spaces, and history. I can't think of a U.S. school that is competitive. You would have to throw in natural surroundings to have any case for a U.S. school.

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+1000. we spend a week at Oxford being shown around by our DS who goes there. I could have spent a month and not seen it all.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton and Yale will always be my top two in terms of campus beauty: Yale for the beauty of individual buildings and Princeton for the overall campus appeal.

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DC didn't like the “mismatched” and crowded architecture at Princeton. Quite a few newer (but not the newest) buildings were truly ugly and detracted from the more beautiful parts. And it felt like they were squeezed in haphazardly. But we loved having Nassau Street right there, and the art/sculptures on campus were fantastic!

DC thought Duke was much prettier. Same Gothic architecture but laid out in quads with a more spacious feel. The newer buildings seem to mirror the Gothic style in modern and interesting ways, and didn’t feel crammed in. And the gardens are gorgeous! Downside is no cute town within walking distance (except off of the Freshman campus on East - which also very pretty with completely different architecture than the main campus.)

Duke's campus is separated by a freeway.

We thought of them as two separate campuses. Each is self-contained and beautiful - and an easy shuttle bus ride to the other when needed.

It is not a freeway - I ran Campus Drive easily a thousand times and mostly it was bus traffic and I often ran on the road. How anyone could be so inaccurate is a mystery.

Any map will show you Duke East and West are separated by the Durham Freeway.

Again what a dumb comment. Campus Drive goes underneath the freeway. Have you ever been to Duke?

Why are you attempting to deflect something that is so readily apparent? There is a freeway that separates East and West campuses. Yes, there is a road that connects the campuses, but the campuses are not contiguous. This is not different from other schools like JMU, where there is an interstate dividing its east and west campus. I didn't claim you had to risk your life dodging cars and trucks to traverse from one to the other.

You can spend years on Campus Drive and never know the freeway exists. Again, don’t be stupid. I probably ran 1500 miles on Campus Drive - something you clearly did not do - and know every inch of it.

Shoutout from a fellow Duke grad who spends many hours of my 20s running back and forth between East and West on Campus Drive. Just remembering makes me feel young and strong again!

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is still pretty but is rapidly getting overbuilt. Recent projects like the new colleges and art museum have turned their back on what made the campus special.

I see no issue if it means they can educate more students. It is illegal to build half of their buildings anyway.

What does that mean?

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is still pretty but is rapidly getting overbuilt. Recent projects like the new colleges and art museum have turned their back on what made the campus special.

I see no issue if it means they can educate more students. It is illegal to build half of their buildings anyway.

OK. Princeton could have built nice new buildings to do that. But they didn't.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is still pretty but is rapidly getting overbuilt. Recent projects like the new colleges and art museum have turned their back on what made the campus special.

I see no issue if it means they can educate more students. It is illegal to build half of their buildings anyway.

OK. Princeton could have built nice new buildings to do that. But they didn't.

The buildings look pretty nice, just not in classic Princeton style- as I said, that’s illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is still pretty but is rapidly getting overbuilt. Recent projects like the new colleges and art museum have turned their back on what made the campus special.

I see no issue if it means they can educate more students. It is illegal to build half of their buildings anyway.

OK. Princeton could have built nice new buildings to do that. But they didn't.

The buildings look pretty nice, just not in classic Princeton style- as I said, that’s illegal.

Collegiate Gothic or neo-Gothic is illegal? I'm struggling with the use of the word "illegal".

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is still pretty but is rapidly getting overbuilt. Recent projects like the new colleges and art museum have turned their back on what made the campus special.

I see no issue if it means they can educate more students. It is illegal to build half of their buildings anyway.

OK. Princeton could have built nice new buildings to do that. But they didn't.

The buildings look pretty nice, just not in classic Princeton style- as I said, that’s illegal.

Collegiate Gothic or neo-Gothic is illegal? I'm struggling with the use of the word "illegal".

Evidently it was legal to do so at Yale with their new colleges but illegal at Princeton. Must be something in state law.

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Anonymous wrote:UC Santa Cruz, Yale, Amherst, Rice, Duke.

Santa Cruz is an absolute sh*thole.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is still pretty but is rapidly getting overbuilt. Recent projects like the new colleges and art museum have turned their back on what made the campus special.

I see no issue if it means they can educate more students. It is illegal to build half of their buildings anyway.

OK. Princeton could have built nice new buildings to do that. But they didn't.

The buildings look pretty nice, just not in classic Princeton style- as I said, that’s illegal.

The new modern Princeton buildings look like stuff they are going to want to tear down in 30-40 years, just like a lot of stuff that was built in the 1960s. The architects try to superficially give the modern designs some character by doing things like varying brick textures and stuff like that, but my bet is these buildings will be unloved over time. I have no idea what Princeton was thinking when they dropped the huge modern, art museum replacement into a space that is far too small and the building is so jarringly different in design and scale to anything around it.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton and Yale will always be my top two in terms of campus beauty: Yale for the beauty of individual buildings and Princeton for the overall campus appeal.

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DC didn't like the “mismatched” and crowded architecture at Princeton. Quite a few newer (but not the newest) buildings were truly ugly and detracted from the more beautiful parts. And it felt like they were squeezed in haphazardly. But we loved having Nassau Street right there, and the art/sculptures on campus were fantastic!

DC thought Duke was much prettier. Same Gothic architecture but laid out in quads with a more spacious feel. The newer buildings seem to mirror the Gothic style in modern and interesting ways, and didn’t feel crammed in. And the gardens are gorgeous! Downside is no cute town within walking distance (except off of the Freshman campus on East - which also very pretty with completely different architecture than the main campus.)

Duke's campus is separated by a freeway.

We thought of them as two separate campuses. Each is self-contained and beautiful - and an easy shuttle bus ride to the other when needed.

It is not a freeway - I ran Campus Drive easily a thousand times and mostly it was bus traffic and I often ran on the road. How anyone could be so inaccurate is a mystery.

Any map will show you Duke East and West are separated by the Durham Freeway.

Again what a dumb comment. Campus Drive goes underneath the freeway. Have you ever been to Duke?

Why are you attempting to deflect something that is so readily apparent? There is a freeway that separates East and West campuses. Yes, there is a road that connects the campuses, but the campuses are not contiguous. This is not different from other schools like JMU, where there is an interstate dividing its east and west campus. I didn't claim you had to risk your life dodging cars and trucks to traverse from one to the other.

You can spend years on Campus Drive and never know the freeway exists. Again, don’t be stupid. I probably ran 1500 miles on Campus Drive - something you clearly did not do - and know every inch of it.

Shoutout from a fellow Duke grad who spends many hours of my 20s running back and forth between East and West on Campus Drive. Just remembering makes me feel young and strong again!

I do not understand this thread. Of course the campuses are not directly adjacent and there is a freeway that runs through the area that separates them. The fact that Campus Drive isn't that bad doesn't negate those facts.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxford and Cambridge have it all for beautiful architecture, gardens and spaces, and history. I can't think of a U.S. school that is competitive. You would have to throw in natural surroundings to have any case for a U.S. school.

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+1000. we spend a week at Oxford being shown around by our DS who goes there. I could have spent a month and not seen it all.

Oxford and Cambridge are extraordinary in comparison to U.S. universities in part due to their age, but also significantly because they have so much competition between their numerous constituent colleges. Trinity College at Cambridge is competing with Kings College a stones throw away and that includes architecture and landscaping. The U.S. universities don't have that. Their campuses may to have nice signature spots, but a significantly smaller percentage of their campuses reach the levels of Oxford and Cambridge. The UK schools also place a premium on preserving garden and parkland space. They put the new big research buildings on the periphery. U.S. universities, including many of those considered most beautiful, are getting overbuilt.