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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I couldn’t get over how touristy the whole place felt. Mind you, I was one of them 😂[/quote]

Me too. It also felt too congested with people and traffic and too high end commercial.  And, all the [b]colonial architecture just made me feel like suburban Virginia! [/b]DD liked it way more than I did, but maybe that's because we don't get as much colonial in MD as in VA.[/quote]

i gather you don't like colonial? But you need to learn your history. Colonial architecture was the predominant style from the 17th - 19th centures in ALL of Northern America (which includes Maryland). Colonial architecture is all over the south too![/quote]

You’d think with all the $ the ivies could have already torn down all those “ugly” colonial buildings and put up new shiny ikea ones instead to get with the times![/quote]

No, they are historical and a great tradition to the first year experience. Decades later colleagues talk about fun in the Yard at 3a.m. They've also been extensively renovated. There are many videos on this. When new dorms are needed they are built "shiny IKEA" style by world renowned architects like Walter Gropius at tge law school - but those were a mistake in my mind: too small, linoleum floor, noisy hallways[/quote]

My post about replacing all Harvard buildings with Ikea was clearly poorly written as intent was to be as silly as if someone asks why they don’t tear down Big Ben as out of date architecture now too.[/quote]

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