http://campussqueeze.com/static/20-ugliest-colleges-in-the-USA.html

NCSU came in at # 7 on the list

Quote :

"7. North Carolina State University- Brick, brick, brick, brick…it should be their fight song. The whole entire campus, I’m not even joking, is red brick. Is that supposed to be some kind of a character statement? it looks like a low income housing project. To throw in an accent of some kind, the designers must’ve thought, “Hey! Why not some metal?” and just put some random steel porticos around the campus and called it a day. And maybe some steel bars around the windows to make them feel smaller and more like a jail. That’s the spirit! "

sorry if its old, i searched

12/6/2007 11:17:21 AM

i like the bricks

12/6/2007 11:18:27 AM

well duh

12/6/2007 11:18:37 AM

duh...

i remember a&m did look like a prison to me though thats why i went to ncsu.

i mean doesn't this look more like a prison



[Edited on December 6, 2007 at 11:20 AM. Reason : .]

12/6/2007 11:19:04 AM

damn that is harsh

12/6/2007 11:19:18 AM

i would trade the campus at georgia tech that looks nice but with no hot chicks for nc state's red brick and the hot chicks that were there

there isnt anything worth looking at on campus

12/6/2007 11:19:41 AM

The guy who wrote this apparently doesn't like anything brick to begin with, anyway. At least we've got a theme.

12/6/2007 11:21:07 AM

we should just go ahead and brick up the trees

12/6/2007 11:23:04 AM

A) I like the brick
B) I went to NCSU to learn how to be an engineer, not to look at the scenery
C) I don't even know what a portico is

12/6/2007 11:23:44 AM

I like the bricks too

12/6/2007 11:24:48 AM

it's not like he's wrong

12/6/2007 11:25:08 AM

i like the bricks too but we do have an architecture school... maybe we should show it?

12/6/2007 11:25:45 AM

Quote :

"i like the bricks "

i actually really like our campus. it has a good feel to it. i prefered it over vtech, auburn, and clemson (the other schools i was looking at).

im glad i graduated before they moved engineering out to centenial....its just not the same.

12/6/2007 11:26:28 AM

but I like the bricks.

12/6/2007 11:26:40 AM

Quote :

"B) I went to NCSU to learn how to be an engineer C) I don't even know what a portico is "

12/6/2007 11:29:07 AM

the bricks are pretty.

12/6/2007 11:30:08 AM

Quote :

"im glad i graduated before they moved engineering out to centenial....its just not the same."

i guess you didn't have classes in daniels then

12/6/2007 11:32:14 AM

THIS THREAD WAS OBVIOUSLY MADE BY A DERD!!!!!

12/6/2007 11:32:39 AM

Centennial Campus actually is very nice looking.

And I'm assuming that a portico is some kind of small structure or shelter or something. A rocket scientist does not need to know this.

[Edited on December 6, 2007 at 11:38 AM. Reason : a, for fuschsia]

12/6/2007 11:33:47 AM

attn:everyone

it's Centennial

12/6/2007 11:35:31 AM

12/6/2007 11:35:53 AM

I like the brick

12/6/2007 11:39:15 AM

^^for some reason that doesn't look right to me....idk why

but the relation of the tri-towers to harrelson seems off

[Edited on December 6, 2007 at 11:40 AM. Reason : just my imagination]

12/6/2007 11:39:23 AM

i wonder how many of those other ugly schools have their entire campus in 3d polygon building format on Google Earth

also lol at Herb Sendek just cause he coached at State (#7) and he went to Carnegie Mellon (#5)

12/6/2007 11:42:55 AM

he's right, too many bricks,
but what else is there, sticks, rocks?

12/6/2007 11:44:32 AM

But now he's at ASU, where the campus could be the nicest in the word or look like complete dogshit

and no one would notice because of the endless parade of georgeous girls

12/6/2007 11:45:22 AM

plus there is a lot of marijuana near

12/6/2007 11:47:15 AM

I thought this thread was about how looking the girls are.

12/6/2007 11:47:17 AM

but the sun is brighter in arizona and you cant see any hot chicks...all you see is a huge bright white glare where the sun shines off his dome

12/6/2007 11:47:19 AM

haha, whenever someone who hasnt been to state asks me about state, i tell them its nothing but bricks & squirrels & they always reply that all campuses have tons of brick


i then have to send them pics of campus to show them that theres a difference between lots of brick & the state campus which is nothing but brick

12/6/2007 11:47:41 AM

UNC Asheville is rather pretty

from the library steps you can watch the sun set behind a mountain
night before last the sunset was blood red... a crowd gathered to watch in spite of the cold

12/6/2007 11:57:04 AM

i think UMass Amherst (#2 on that list) looks alright with a nice mountain backdrop and everything...surprised it was that high on that list but i've never seen it in person

12/6/2007 12:05:49 PM

i never stop hearing about how great ASU is

anyone want to go on a road trip before I get too old?

12/6/2007 12:12:03 PM

State's campus would look 10x better if they hadn't felt the need to put roads and parking spaces EVERYWHERE. I really think that's one of the difference between State and UNC....Carolina has grassy quads. We have roads going everywhere and way too much on-campus parking. You can have convenience (park right next to the building, at least if you're faculty) or you can have scenery (a very large percentage of folks at UNC have to use park-and-rides). Pick one.

Their buildings aren't that much prettier than ours. It's the landscaping and the roads that make a difference.

12/6/2007 1:56:36 PM

Nobody talks about my school like that.... NO BODY!!!!!!!!!!!!

12/6/2007 2:02:13 PM

the engineering area of campus is ugly as sin - it was downright depressing

has all of it moved to centennial yet?

12/6/2007 2:04:10 PM

Quote :

"...and way too much on-campus parking..."

Please die.

12/6/2007 2:09:42 PM

These people obviously never went to Richard Stockton State College in NJ

It is easily the ugliest college I have ever been to. Its like an airport terminal with an old 70's paint scheme. The rec center is a square corrugated steel warehouse building.


UGH

12/6/2007 2:26:52 PM

I grew up 5 minutes from Stockton. Why the hell were you there?

Stockton was trying to do a modernist thing back in the day. That's why it looks old and industrial now.

[Edited on December 6, 2007 at 2:32 PM. Reason : +]

12/6/2007 2:30:06 PM

Quote :

"9. Illinois Institute of Technology-"

The entire list is discredited by this entry, we went over this campus repeatedly in Architecture school here at State.

12/6/2007 2:34:29 PM

Quote :

"i think UMass Amherst (#2 on that list) looks alright with a nice mountain backdrop and everything...surprised it was that high on that list but i've never seen it in person"

I am from Mass, and UMass is by far one of the ugliest campuses I have ever seen. The entire campus looks like a sidewalk.. gray, ugly cement.


[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 10:06 PM. Reason : ]

12/10/2007 10:04:55 PM

Quote :

"i think UMass Amherst (#2 on that list) looks alright with a nice mountain backdrop and everything...surprised it was that high on that list but i've never seen it in person"

like the guy above me, i am also from massachusetts. UMASS is a piece of shit and worthy of the #2 rating. I wasn't about to spend 13k (in-state tuition) to go to that shithole when I could pay a little more (out-of-state tuition) to go to state.

12/10/2007 10:09:52 PM

Psh it really depends on when you're on state campus. Late fall and in winter sure, but summer and spring the campus has some fairly beautiful areas.

12/10/2007 10:11:55 PM

Quote :

"A) I like the brick B) I went to NCSU to learn how to be an engineer, not to look at the scenery C) I don't even know what a portico is"

Quote :

"State's campus would look 10x better if they hadn't felt the need to put roads and parking spaces EVERYWHERE. I really think that's one of the difference between State and UNC....Carolina has grassy quads. We have roads going everywhere and way too much on-campus parking. You can have convenience (park right next to the building, at least if you're faculty) or you can have scenery (a very large percentage of folks at UNC have to use park-and-rides). Pick one."

theres also basically no parking on/around unc's campus, which is reallllly inconvienient and makes getting to class on time a bitch (if youre one of those people, like me, thats always late)

12/10/2007 10:12:09 PM

these always come out, and it's always evident that these people did not go to east campus. i guess that's fair, since most of us don't have classes out there... but it is there.

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 10:16 PM. Reason : and it's great looking]

12/10/2007 10:15:50 PM

fuck that gay website

I love our campus and there is nothing wrong with it. If you want grass, go live with the fags over the hill.

12/10/2007 10:16:51 PM

Quote :

"theres also basically no parking on/around unc's campus, which is reallllly inconvienient and makes getting to class on time a bitch (if youre one of those people, like me, thats always late)"

I like UNC's campus. I had a class there and it was nice not having 80 million roads cutting through it everywhere. I think Dan Allen is a disaster and should be changed so that the whole city doesn't use it as a cut through. Try taking a bus to class that comes down Dan Allen. It takes 15 minutes around noon to get through it sometimes.

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 10:19 PM. Reason : .]

12/10/2007 10:19:37 PM

^ you're right that the whole city uses it. you're wrong that busses take 15 minutes to navigate it. i take one everyday.

12/10/2007 10:20:46 PM

Quote :

"I love our campus and there is nothing wrong with it. If you want grass, go live with the fags over the hill."

12/10/2007 10:21:05 PM

i've always said to people who tell me state's campus is ugly:

"i didn't come to college to take pictures"

to UNC kids who told me state's campus is ugly:

"enjoy your pretty campus. i hope the starbucks you work in 4 years from now is pretty too."


those two usually cut the smartass comments short

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 10:24 PM. Reason : .]

12/10/2007 10:24:02 PM