Someone, in a related thread, mentioned that one particular campus has loads of a specific type of pear tree that, for two weeks out of the year, smell of a rotting slaughterhouse.
As unpleasant as looking at bricks all day would be, one can always close one’s eyes. How one would escape that smell probably requires a bit more deliberate action.
Hey! I hope you’re not dissing Baker House. I lived there for four years, and I liked the bricks. Alvar did a good job.
Nope – look up a few threads. I’m dissing the painfully boring brick construction of RIT.
In Baker House the bricks are not identical, and the construction is not monotonously flat. Baker House has that weird “pregnant guppy” shape to it. And it’s not unornamented – look at the “Moon Garden” over the subterranean dining hall.
The back stairs do look, from the outside, as if they were stuck on as an afterthought, but I can live with that.
Heck, I even lived in Baker for a week after I first got there. I was a Limbo Frosh.
Smaller than UCB? I always wanted to go to Berkley, until I went to Berkley. That is one dirty city and campus. I’m glad to have gone to the wide open grassy expanse of UC Davis.
I’ll second Humboldt State. I wasn’t real thrilled with the town of Arcata either. People had described it to me as a “freaky little college town in the coastal redwoods” but I found it fairly run-down and seedy.
Fresno State is pretty icky too. I used to visit a friend there periodically and I couldn’t get over how much it reminded me of a really ugly high school campus.
Congradulations on your campus upgrade!! 
Yeah, the Hall building is the one with the escalators.
The area’s changed quite a lot even in the past few years. Buildings have been torn down, new ones have gone up.
Actually, there is a yearly weekend type deal here that is called the “Brick City Festival”, its almost the biggest thing to happen on campus all year.
Sounds interesting. I’ll be in Montreal in May, so I’ll have to remember to check it out. I’m fully prepared for a lot of changes to the city, but as long as the shopping’s still good, it’s all fine with me. 