Anonymous
Post 11/02/2019 05:12     Subject: Re:George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The ugliest campus is Harvey Mudd's. Terrific school, but hideous, depressing campus.

Sure, but at least you’re in Claremont, a fantastic town with great weather. Generic suburb of NoVA? Meh


Claremont - fantastic town? Are you kidding? Town is tiny and uninteresting. Only saving grace is that the Claremont colleges are an hour from LA.
I don’t love the Harvey Mudd architecture although I wouldn’t call it hideous. Pomona and Scripps are really pretty


It’s a great town to live in and, over a few blocks, has better restaurants than one will find in all of nova. Maybe a tad dull to be in during college. But those looking for big state u don’t choose the Claremont Colleges.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2019 23:35     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why GMU fans feel like they need to defend how the campus looks. It’s a perfectly fine school.
It’s campus is objectively ugly. Learning in an ugly building doesn’t reflect poorly on your kids. I don’t get the nuttiness.


But I don't think it is ugly. There are many brand new buildings there that are attractive and the hilliness of the campus with many mature trees surrounding it gives a nice feel. And the mix of architecture with some cohesive strands look good. They do an amazing job with the landscape including sustainability--they are leaders in the area on that. I don't have a kid there --so no need to puff up my view of the place-- but I semi-regularly attend things there related to my field.


+1
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2019 15:02     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:Lots of ugly campuses OP. Only the privileged or heavily student loaned get to go somewhere that looks lovely


Nah. But love your bitterness!
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2019 12:23     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:All colleges are attractive on some level. But on that scale, in my opinion, GMU is near the bottom. Towson is another.


I'm the PP who thought it not ugly. Fine with your opinion--matters of taste and all-- but I was responding to a PP who said it is objectively ugly. As someone with a design background and who has been at many colleges, I just don't think it's objectively true.


Then you’re arguing with the wrong person. I wasn’t responding to you.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2019 10:02     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Lots of ugly campuses OP. Only the privileged or heavily student loaned get to go somewhere that looks lovely
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2019 09:34     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:All colleges are attractive on some level. But on that scale, in my opinion, GMU is near the bottom. Towson is another.


I'm the PP who thought it not ugly. Fine with your opinion--matters of taste and all-- but I was responding to a PP who said it is objectively ugly. As someone with a design background and who has been at many colleges, I just don't think it's objectively true.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2019 09:21     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
All colleges are attractive on some level. But on that scale, in my opinion, GMU is near the bottom. Towson is another.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2019 08:13     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why GMU fans feel like they need to defend how the campus looks. It’s a perfectly fine school.
It’s campus is objectively ugly. Learning in an ugly building doesn’t reflect poorly on your kids. I don’t get the nuttiness.


But I don't think it is ugly. There are many brand new buildings there that are attractive and the hilliness of the campus with many mature trees surrounding it gives a nice feel. And the mix of architecture with some cohesive strands look good. They do an amazing job with the landscape including sustainability--they are leaders in the area on that. I don't have a kid there --so no need to puff up my view of the place-- but I semi-regularly attend things there related to my field.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2019 23:23     Subject: Re:George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The ugliest campus is Harvey Mudd's. Terrific school, but hideous, depressing campus.

Sure, but at least you’re in Claremont, a fantastic town with great weather. Generic suburb of NoVA? Meh


Claremont - fantastic town? Are you kidding? Town is tiny and uninteresting. Only saving grace is that the Claremont colleges are an hour from LA.
I don’t love the Harvey Mudd architecture although I wouldn’t call it hideous. Pomona and Scripps are really pretty


Love Claremont. It’s adorable.

But so freaking boring for college age students.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2019 20:00     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:another ugly campus - Brandeis. yikes.


I got in there without visiting and ended up choosing another school after I saw the campus. I hated high school, and the buildings looked too much like my high school.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2019 11:02     Subject: Re:George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The ugliest campus is Harvey Mudd's. Terrific school, but hideous, depressing campus.

Sure, but at least you’re in Claremont, a fantastic town with great weather. Generic suburb of NoVA? Meh


Claremont - fantastic town? Are you kidding? Town is tiny and uninteresting. Only saving grace is that the Claremont colleges are an hour from LA.
I don’t love the Harvey Mudd architecture although I wouldn’t call it hideous. Pomona and Scripps are really pretty


Love Claremont. It’s adorable.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2019 10:29     Subject: Re:George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The ugliest campus is Harvey Mudd's. Terrific school, but hideous, depressing campus.

Sure, but at least you’re in Claremont, a fantastic town with great weather. Generic suburb of NoVA? Meh


Claremont - fantastic town? Are you kidding? Town is tiny and uninteresting. Only saving grace is that the Claremont colleges are an hour from LA.
I don’t love the Harvey Mudd architecture although I wouldn’t call it hideous. Pomona and Scripps are really pretty
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2019 07:24     Subject: Re:George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
No serious person thinks they would have built the Ffx campus that way now. Hard pass.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2019 07:12     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
We visited and I didn't think it was ugly. I was just missing much of a notion of a quad.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2019 07:05     Subject: George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
I don’t understand why GMU fans feel like they need to defend how the campus looks. It’s a perfectly fine school.
It’s campus is objectively ugly. Learning in an ugly building doesn’t reflect poorly on your kids. I don’t get the nuttiness.