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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any college that doesn’t get bashed on DCUM?[/quote]

Yes. But I think with Stanford, for a lot of people who went there, there is a real sense of loss over what it had become. This is true to an extent of other elite schools as well; the current admissions process and the tenure process has homogenized the T10s so the personalities that made them distinct have noticeably faded. With that loss of individuality comes a sense of loss. For some schools, it is sharper than others. For instance, Stanford is a bland facsimile of what it used to be (alum here). Meanwhile my impression is that Princeton has better retained some of what made it unique. Yale on the other hand had also lost some of its character. [/quote]

I agree that Stanford used to be like, the West Coast version of the University of Chicago/ Brown. But now it is not that.

I am laughing at the comparisons to Taco Bell architecture--that is exactly it! it has extremely underwhelming campus, sort of hot and dusty and very blah. USC has much better architecture.[/quote]

You are an idiot. Have you ever been to the peninsula? I lived there for years and it was never “hot and dusty”. As for “blah” that only reflects your lack of taste.[/quote]

lol, i was living in santa cruz at the time and visited a friend at stanford...compared to the lush, incredible uc santa cruz campus with views of the ocean, all the magical little residential colleges, the redwood trees with banana slugs snoozing on them, the surfer culture and boardwalk in town...gosh yes stanford seemed dusty and blah and as other PP said, "soulless and corporate."[/quote]

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