It's a junior university.

Anonymous wrote:I heard Berkeley looks like Del Taco.

Berkeley is gorgeous.

I heard Berkeley looks like Del Taco.

taco bell has been remodeling, so, not anymore!

Anonymous wrote:And Harvard is a mish mash tourist trap. I really didn’t like it. Seriously, not my vibe.

But I’m not ridiculous enough to think someone who gets in is going to turn them down because an anonymous stranger doesn’t like the look of the place.

Stanford weather is pretty amazing, though. I def think most kids will trade perceived beauty for killer weather. To each their own?

The interiors are great though. Harvard is a lot better when you're inside, which fits for Boston.

And Harvard is a mish mash tourist trap. I really didn’t like it. Seriously, not my vibe.

But I’m not ridiculous enough to think someone who gets in is going to turn them down because an anonymous stranger doesn’t like the look of the place.

Stanford weather is pretty amazing, though. I def think most kids will trade perceived beauty for killer weather. To each their own?

Lots of homeless people to make friends with.

Anonymous wrote:Explain how OP's disdain for an architectural style is insecurity?

Read the OP again. You would call that good faith critique of an architectural style?

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Anonymous wrote:Grow up. It's not a resort or a spa. It's an academic institution granting a world class education.

How grim.

The wretched architecture of the west coast combined with dour grimness and grind of an elite university.

“Wretched” lmao. Sorry that the west coast doesn’t have shitty dilapidated colonial buildings that look like depression statues in the winter.

Mission revival is really beautiful, especially in the areas with rolling hills and valleys. I still dislike the Stanford campus, but that’s more so, because it never ever ever ends and is in a suburb

The suburban aspect is really awful. It feels like a never-ending strip mall.

It really sucks because it had just a little bit more of a forested or non-suburban feel, it’d basically be California Duke for me

This is such an odd thing to say. That part of the peninsula is pretty dry and definitely not forested. Whatever you might think of the architecture, the campus overall is designed to allow students to soak in the area's climate and nature. This was actually one of Jane Stanford's goals. It's certainly not New England...and it's not even Berkeley which is much hillier and greener. But don't go to school on the peninsula if you don't like the feel of Stanford campus.

Are we really going to argue that Northern California lacks forested areas now...are you serious?

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer sending my kid to a college that resembles a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

It's 2024 and white people still argue about things that they think look and feel too "ethnic". It's really unbelievable.

It's a geography thing. Believe me. It takes time to get used to cactuses instead of deciduous trees.

I was born in the Bay Area but I love medieval history and so I like hobbit house stone architecture.

Maybe that's it. I'm from S Texas so cacti remind me of home, as does Spanish architecture, limestone, and other seemingly distasteful cultural markers to an E coast palette. I don't like the grey skies, monotone grey/white/neutrals of the homes here and think that everything looks the same. The lack of color drives me crazy. So maybe it is just geography - but I don't try to degrade the area by calling it a McDonald's. The Taco Bell jab was an inherently racist comment. I don't think OP slipped up with that.

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Anonymous wrote:OP do you mean Spanish mission architecture? We go to different Taco Bells, and clearly you haven't spent much time in California. Please don't go around spouting off this uninformed opinion. It makes you sound petite bourgeoisie.

I wonder where OP is from. I'm from S Texas, Hispanic, and I love this style of architecture because it reminds me of home. UT ATX doesn't have the exact same style but doesn't utilize the red, terracotta tiled roof. My home was nothing but Saltillo tile. It's just the style in certain areas because of local product.

I think OP needs to get out more. TBH, I prefer these warm styles over cold, drab E coast looks. But I think it does depend on what you grew up with.

It's often this ^^^.

In other posts - what makes a person uncultured isn't whether they prefer one style over another - it's that they don't accept there are differences in style and culture and influences that vary around the country and around the world. The OP sounds tacky. It's ok if somebody prefers red brick colonial over Spanish mission or over stone buildings... or whatever...but you don't need to thoughtlessly trash one or the other.

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer sending my kid to a college that resembles a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

It's 2024 and white people still argue about things that they think look and feel too "ethnic". It's really unbelievable.

It's a geography thing. Believe me. It takes time to get used to cactuses instead of deciduous trees.

I was born in the Bay Area but I love medieval history and so I like hobbit house stone architecture.

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Anonymous wrote:I would prefer sending my kid to a college that resembles a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

It's 2024 and white people still argue about things that they think look and feel too "ethnic". It's really unbelievable.

The irony being that this is the architecture of missionaries from Spain...

I know. But I can bet that all of these PPs gloat about those AMAZING summers that they spent with the kids in Spain and give themselves a pat on the back for being immersed in culture. But the same culture which has gone through an evolution here, is somehow beneath them. Because Europe = posh, LATAM = low brow.

Stanford is beautiful. I also like Stanford shopping center

Anonymous wrote:So much free-floating anxiety and insecurity, with a touch of boredom, on display in this thread, starting with OP.

You're so edgy and above it all. Explain how OP's disdain for an architectural style is insecurity?