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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It's probably a perception that the Bay Area has become less creative and more corporate over time, and that [b]the young adults who make a point of going to a school like Stanford aren't all that different from kids gravitating towards Penn with the hope of going to Wharton and landing a job with a hedge fund. [/b]

Plus the real estate is expensive so some people take out their anger at how little money buys there to call the area sterile. [/quote]

This is about as ignorant as it comes.

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