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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yale is like a weird Potemkin Village or movie set. [/quote]

I wish I were jaded enough to toss out such a comment. Yale seemed magical to me as a visitor. [/quote]
DP. A lot of people find it magical. I really struggled to enjoy the tour and found it extravagantly tasteless and a bit dull (which is a strange mix I wasn’t expecting). The auditorium they sent us into just seemed [b]large but also rundown[/b]. We got to tour DC’s department and a residential college, since DC has a few upperclassmen friends there and neither of us were too impressed.

Strange, because DC now goes to Princeton and we both love the campus- which is admittedly quite similar.[/quote]

I wish you’d seen Yale in the late 90s/early 2000s for the full large-but-rundown experience. Abandoned basements, totally abandoned floors at Payne Whitney gym, secret passageways, and forgotten doors- it had it all. Only Harvard looked worse when I visited friends!

Chairs would break when you sat in them and even special rooms in the library would only have half their furniture because it was being repaired. At one point our residential college was in such bad shape that they were letting us do our own light renovations as long as the next year’s suite residents signed off on them. I do feel that the recent construction and improvements were necessary but went too far and overcorrected into the territory of blingy/tacky/excessive.[/quote]

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