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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the campus is objectively beautiful but somewhat soulless. Just feels very corporate and overly manicured. I don’t get the Taco Bell complaints though. [/quote]
I went to grad school there 20+ years ago (so zero knowledge about the current undergrad experience) but I'd say that's an accurate descriptor of the space. Honestly I was totally wowed by it when I first arrive - lemon trees out my window!  blue sky every day!! mission-ish style architecture!  But I rather despised Palo Alto and looking back on the campus I remember it as feeling rather sterile even then.[/quote]

Pretty representative of the Bay Area as a whole…. Gorgeous but sterile [/quote]

Where is this "sterile" sh!t coming from? I was out there a couple of weeks ago and it didn't seem sterile to me. Lots of diversity, lots of very fine restaurants, booming tech economy. It's certainly less sterile than the DMV, which is endless colonial homes and strip malls sprawling out for miles and miles.[/quote]

I guess Palo Alto is not “sterile” considering their $4-5 million aging (literally ancient floor heating) Eichler homes. The tech sector is not exactly booming right now, with even some Stanford CS grads having trouble finding employment. [/quote]

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