Ugly campuses

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anyone know of any? i'd have to say the USC Med center is pretty bad but the children's hospital is nice

 

[dwightbean]

hey. i think i'd like to know this too.

 

[tinkerbelle]

The Hopkins Med campus Sucks... actually, there is no campus....

But the undergrad campus is pretty 🙂

 

[principessa]

One I know well - the University of Kentucky medical campus is pretty dismal. And the construction is constant. Other parts of the campus are pretty nice, but once you get to the med center there's really nothing worth seeing.

 

[Garuda]

Columbia was horrendous.

 

[medstylee]

Columbia was horrendous.

I'll second this. I was at the new cleveland clinic school a few days later and it was like traveling from hell to heaven.

 

[tgerwuds]

TX A and M sucks... sorry though... I am severely biased bc I am a Longhorn! (Hookem!). I have heard it is actually pretty nice if you take away all of the aggies!

PS If this is the only school I get into... I am going, wah wah wah.

 

[Garuda]

Mt. Sinai wasn't that great either. Everything seemed to be in one building. And the dorm was kind of grungy, although it was decent living in Manhattan for the price.

 

[kwgold]

UAB: great school, ugly city, ugly campus. However, new hospital opens this year and the already existing facilities are great.

 

[TheFlash]

Mt. Sinai wasn't that great either. Everything seemed to be in one building. And the dorm was kind of grungy, although it was decent living in Manhattan for the price.

Uh, you know I. M. Pei designed Mount Sinai hospital, right? And Aron Hall is the nicest of any of the NYC dorms. Can't expect more out of a school in NYC.

I second that Columbia is pretty bad, even for a city school. Bard is so dismal.

 

[Mr. Rosewater]

Uh, you know I. M. Pei designed Mount Sinai hospital, right?

whoa, that's a killer rebuttal!

 

[velo]

UIC wasn't really anything to write home about...the buildings just seemed kinda bland/depressing.

(I said UIC by the way, double check it, I don't want dyslexic people from Irvine yelling at me! 😉 🙂 )

 

[rcd]

UMKC... looks like a community college

 

[Iffy premed]

the campus is the hospital parking lot

 

[vr4nut]

University of Missouri-Columbia has a terrible campus. Way too big, construction on every third building (they're off on weekends but they will drill and jackhammer during class!), the worst streets in the nation with cracks, potholes, and patches, the sidewalks are horribly cracked, plus it has more than its share of trash and graffiti. Plus there is a constant 1/2-inch layer of mud on many of the streets and sidewalks from a combination of poor drainage and dumptrucks coming from the construction sites. And the lawns are worthless too- everyone cuts through the grass because of poor placement of sidewalks, so there are dirt paths going every which direction through all the grass. That's all I can think of right now.

 

[sunflower79]

Pitt's med school campus consists of one building linked to 3 hospitals. 😛 Undergrad has no campus either, just buildings lining streets gnarled with traffic. BUT there is a very nice huge lawn for playing frisbee etc. and a gym across the street from school. 🙂

 

[rcd]

University of Missouri-Columbia has a terrible campus. Way too big, construction on every third building (they're off on weekends but they will drill and jackhammer during class!), the worst streets in the nation with cracks, potholes, and patches, the sidewalks are horribly cracked, plus it has more than its share of trash and graffiti. Plus there is a constant 1/2-inch layer of mud on many of the streets and sidewalks from a combination of poor drainage and dumptrucks coming from the construction sites. And the lawns are worthless too- everyone cuts through the grass because of poor placement of sidewalks, so there are dirt paths going every which direction through all the grass. That's all I can think of right now.

looks beautiul though.

 

[VienneseWaltz]

I interviewed at about a dozen schools and almost all of them were pretty unattractive. University of South Carolina and Duke were exquisite, but other than that ... well, you don't spend much time outside anyway ...

 

[RaistlinMajere]

Unless you are deciding between two schools that are equivalent for everything else that you seek, it doesn't matter what the buildings look like.

 

[gomizzou]

I would say that the campus in general at Mizzou is beautiful. There is a lot of construction going on, but the new buildings look great as well as the new dorms. Note that the previous discussions have been about the undergrad campus. Although the med. school is located on campus, it is on the south side toward the edge, away from most of the construction etc.

 

[getcloned]

One I know well - the University of Kentucky medical campus is pretty dismal. And the construction is constant. Other parts of the campus are pretty nice, but once you get to the med center there's really nothing worth seeing.

Actually, they have completed the construction of the gill heart center, and it looks really nice. I guess I havent noticed this about the med center.

 

[oldtimer]

I'm shocked that Temple hasn't been mentioned. Go one block away from the main campus in any direction and you're in ghetto-ville.

 

[NubianPrincess]

I'm shocked that Temple hasn't been mentioned. Go one block away from the main campus in any direction and you're in ghetto-ville.

You know, they say the same about the White House.

 

[linuxizer]

UAB: great school, ugly city, ugly campus. However, new hospital opens this year and the already existing facilities are great.

Along the lines of the Mt. Sinai rebuttal: I.M. Pei designed the Kirklin Clinic at UAB. Unfortunately, they never built the mirror building which would have balanced the asymmetric building, and the fountain out front was definitely designed by the urologists. Plus, they spent a cool million on Italian marble for the outside, even though Alabama is a major marble-producing state. All that said, UAB Med has some nice buildings, and a coherent look to it, even in the new hospital wing.

--Ari

 

[John Deere Gree]

You know, they say the same about the White House.

Uh not really...

 

[Scubadoc]

I interviewed at about a dozen schools and almost all of them were pretty unattractive. University of South Carolina and Duke were exquisite, but other than that ... well, you don't spend much time outside anyway ...

Wow really? you thought University of South Carolina was exquisite? I went there today to check the campus out and exquisite wasn't really the word that popped into my mind...not bad, but not exquisite...

 

[NubianPrincess]

Uh not really...

Uh I am referring to the people I know who have visited DC. I have never been there.

 

[John Deere Gree]

Uh I am referring to the people I know who have visited DC. I have never been there.

Your friends are *****...

The area around the white house isn't bad. There are a lot worse parts in DC, i.e. the Southeast Quandrant.

 

[sidewalkman]

I'm shocked that Temple hasn't been mentioned. Go one block away from the main campus in any direction and you're in ghetto-ville.

I'll second the vote for Temple. North Philly's pretty poor.

 

[45408]

Uh I am referring to the people I know who have visited DC. I have never been there.

don't take anyone's word for it - the area around the White House is pretty posh

 

[culov]

Upenn

 

[jlee9531]

tho i love this school, the actual medical campus at davis isnt all that great, but the medical center at sac is very nice.

 

[VienneseWaltz]

Wow really? you thought University of South Carolina was exquisite? I went there today to check the campus out and exquisite wasn't really the word that popped into my mind...not bad, but not exquisite...

I don't know many medical school campuses in a park-like setting and turn-of-the-century buildings. As this thread has pointed out, most are urban and utilitarian.

(To make sure we're on the same page: I'm talking about the actual med campus, not the undergraduate campus or downtown hospital.)

 

[pauleuglis]

Vaderbilt was not a nice campus at all! Very old, poorly-maintained buildings on the med school campus. And downtown Nashville is pretty blah.

 

[tontondavid]

Well from what you are all saying it sounds like all med schools look bad !!! Cheer up, how about a great education, does that count?

 

[jdc5]

anyone know of any? i'd have to say the USC Med center is pretty bad but the children's hospital is nice

I really liked USC's campus. It's compact and nicely laid out with a quad. Plus, anywhere that's in the 70's-80's year round can't be too bad. And the area around it is fine, unless you're afraid of little old mexican ladies for some bizarre reason.

I personally thought the ugliest campus I saw was Albert Einstein's because there really isn't much of one. It's in the farthest reaches of the Bronx with little or nothing to do in the area and was under major construction when I visited. But I guess it's an incentive to study with nothing else to do.

 

[leorl]

I think Case Western isn't all that great. Neither is Univ. of Cincinnati.

 

[Harps]

tho i love this school, the actual medical campus at davis isnt all that great, but the medical center at sac is very nice.

I was going to say that......especially lecture hall 180....the medical school is pretty beaten down. However, the medical center is AWESOME......it fits my mental image of an academic medical center 👍

On a side note, Stanford lecture hall is an eye sore. Not to mention the notorious Lane library Students come OUT of the library to cool down in summer..heheh...

-Harps

 

[pauleuglis]

I don't know many medical school campuses in a park-like setting and turn-of-the-century buildings. As this thread has pointed out, most are urban and utilitarian.

(To make sure we're on the same page: I'm talking about the actual med campus, not the undergraduate campus or downtown hospital.)

Actually, Wash U's medical campus, while considered urban, is immediately adjacent to a 1300-acre park. And they are finishing up a new classroom/education building for the school to open up in Fall 2005.

 

[VienneseWaltz]

Actually, Wash U's medical campus, while considered urban, is immediately adjacent to a 1300-acre park. And they are finishing up a new classroom/education building for the school to open up in Fall 2005.

Wash U looked like most other campuses to me. As you said, it's urban, and it's not in the park.

 

[dtreese]

Uh I am referring to the people I know who have visited DC. I have never been there.

It's an exaggeration. The district has some REALLY slummy parts, but they're more than a block from the White House.