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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The colleges that didn't make my kid's list -

Elon - DS thought it was too small and manicured; kids hanging out at a local coffee shop gave off a bored, rich kid vibe

NC State - Just thought a lot of the buildings were ugly and depressing; kids didn't have happy looks on their faces (and this was in friendly North Carolina)

Virginia Tech - I liked it; DS didn't (probably because he wasn't planning on majoring in engineering). But the cafeteria food was good.

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Not an NC State alum, kid had zero need to consider it (didn't have her area of interest) but -- is your kid looking at computer science, game design, anything like that? We took a tour (for fun) of their incredible library that I think is on the computer science campus -- it's not in downtown Raleigh but a little way out. Very new building, has one of the few "Book Bots" in the world (fetches your book from vast stacks, and you can watch through glass walls as it does so), had amazing tech spaces like a 3D printing lab any student could use; a game design and testing room with multiple large screens for testing games; another teaching space with walls entirely of screens to give students immersive experiences; and a lot more. It was jaw-dropping if you're a computer tech person. If your kid wants to do CS or computer or game design (yes, a very real thing), you might have seen the main campus but not this other campus and library. Just FYI for you or anyone looking at NC State. [/quote]

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