Anyone from this area considering college in New England really needs to make sure they understand the challenge of the climate. The summers you may have spent in Maine, Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyard have NOT prepared you for what you experience the academic year (typically late August through early May.)

First the good news, late summer and autumn are great. You can still catch some of that if you visit at this time. But then winter begins to set in. New England stays cold for a long time due to the cold ocean water. April is still very much a cold month – so ¾ of the academic year is pretty dreary. Then there are the short days. New England very east in the time zone, so some days it is dark by 4:15pm. For early risers, the mornings are much lighter than places further west in the Eastern time zone – but most college students don’t wake up at 5:30 AM.

Bottom line: there is a reason that 95% of the photos you’ll see in NE college brochures show Autumn colors.

Many of the NESCAQ'S Amherst, Connecticut College, Wesleyan, Hamilton are all beautiful quintessential New England college campuses.

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57496230/cornell-putting-nets-over-gorges-to-stop-suicides/

Says that suicide rate is normal. They are just very dramatic suicides.

What it says is that "Cornell maintains the suicide rate is normal. . ." What do you expect the school to say?

Normal? Normal for Cornell maybe. I wonder if most suicides occur during the dismal winter? the campus is very pretty for the first few weeks of the fall term.

this is enough to make me jump: http://www.isso.cornell.edu/ithacalife/winter.php

Anonymous wrote:Stanford looks like a collection of Taco Bells.

Please let me know where I can find "taco bells" like this: http://www.stanford.edu/slideshow/

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57496230/cornell-putting-nets-over-gorges-to-stop-suicides/

Says that suicide rate is normal. They are just very dramatic suicides.

What it says is that "Cornell maintains the suicide rate is normal. . ." What do you expect the school to say?

Normal? Normal for Cornell maybe. I wonder if most suicides occur during the dismal winter? the campus is very pretty for the first few weeks of the fall term.

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford looks like a collection of Taco Bells.

This cracked me up. Didn't it start out as a junior college?

As an alumna, I have to agree that, except for Palm Drive and Mem Chu, which are stunning, the architecture definitely pays homage to Taco Bell (particularly the fabulous drive-up Taco Bell in Pacifica). Yeah, maybe I shudda gone to Yale, which is deservedly noted for its architecture . . .but then, of course, the weather sucks, it's in New Haven, the sports teams are crappy, and I wudda gone to school with a bunch of pompous jerks.

BTW, Stanford was never a junior college. This popular misconception stems from the fact that the university was named in memory of Leland Stanford, Jr.; (hence, it's the Leland Stanford, Jr., University; but not the Leland Stanford Junior University).

You got a Stanford degree, and all you have to show for it are putdowns of Yale that make you sound about 12?

Not sure where you went to school, but, one thing you don't have to show for it is a sense of humor.

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford looks like a collection of Taco Bells.

This cracked me up. Didn't it start out as a junior college?

BTW, Stanford was never a junior college. This popular misconception stems from the fact that the university was named in memory of Leland Stanford, Jr.; (hence, it's the Leland Stanford, Jr., University; but not the Leland Stanford Junior University).

DOH! Doesn't the OP look like a dumb f___ now. Always amusing to see people form opinions based on such shallow expertise.

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57496230/cornell-putting-nets-over-gorges-to-stop-suicides/

Says that suicide rate is normal. They are just very dramatic suicides.

What it says is that "Cornell maintains the suicide rate is normal. . ." What do you expect the school to say?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford looks like a collection of Taco Bells.

This cracked me up. Didn't it start out as a junior college?

As an alumna, I have to agree that, except for Palm Drive and Mem Chu, which are stunning, the architecture definitely pays homage to Taco Bell (particularly the fabulous drive-up Taco Bell in Pacifica). Yeah, maybe I shudda gone to Yale, which is deservedly noted for its architecture . . .but then, of course, the weather sucks, it's in New Haven, the sports teams are crappy, and I wudda gone to school with a bunch of pompous jerks.

BTW, Stanford was never a junior college. This popular misconception stems from the fact that the university was named in memory of Leland Stanford, Jr.; (hence, it's the Leland Stanford, Jr., University; but not the Leland Stanford Junior University).

You got a Stanford degree, and all you have to show for it are putdowns of Yale that make you sound about 12?

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford looks like a collection of Taco Bells.

This cracked me up. Didn't it start out as a junior college?

As an alumna, I have to agree that, except for Palm Drive and Mem Chu, which are stunning, the architecture definitely pays homage to Taco Bell (particularly the fabulous drive-up Taco Bell in Pacifica). Yeah, maybe I shudda gone to Yale, which is deservedly noted for its architecture . . .but then, of course, the weather sucks, it's in New Haven, the sports teams are crappy, and I wudda gone to school with a bunch of pompous jerks.

BTW, Stanford was never a junior college. This popular misconception stems from the fact that the university was named in memory of Leland Stanford, Jr.; (hence, it's the Leland Stanford, Jr., University; but not the Leland Stanford Junior University).

U of Delaware

Anonymous wrote:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57496230/cornell-putting-nets-over-gorges-to-stop-suicides/

Says that suicide rate is normal. They are just very dramatic suicides.

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Beautiful, high suicide rate, or both?

Cornell does NOT have a higher than normal suicide rate. It gets that reputation because the people who commit suicide there tend to do it in more dramatic ways that make the news because the bridges are there. The suicides by pill overdose at other schools do not make it into the news.

I saw this article and recalled this thread:

http://brancra.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/please-just-let-it-stop/

Eleventh undergraduate student fatality for the year, twelfth total. Third fatality in a month that involved the gorges. Police and security are currently being stationed on all the bridges to prevent further incidents.

Sincerely, please just let it stop. If these are suicides, nothing is worth doing this over

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford looks like a collection of Taco Bells.

Says the person from the metro area with the least interesting home architecture in the nation.

Aw, missing your casita back home?