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- [Interviewer] What is the worst thing about Harvard?
- The food, I gotta say hands down, the food.
Yeah, no it's notorious, notoriously bad.
- Annenberg, it's terrible.
- Annenberg, that's the second time
we've gotten that answer.
So Annenberg is
- Awful (beep).
I was mostly going for a,
like what is it?
Like the freshman dining hall?
- Oh yeah, freshman dining hall.
- Okay, what's so bad about it?
- The food.
It's so bad.
- Fair enough.
- I wanna say Annenberg.
- That's the third time we've gotten that answer.
- Oh, okay.
- The worst thing, besides the food at Annenberg,
is the fact that sometimes like I said,
it can bring out the worst in people.
So sometimes people will choose grades
or extracurriculars over real human connections
and it can kinda feel shallow sometimes
or two-dimensional here.
- I think of the tourists.
They wake me up really early in the morning.
- They wake you up, how do they wake you up in the morning?
- You just hear them outside
(laughing)
always taking pictures.
(laughing) - Got it.
- The people.
Not all of them, but some of them.
- Okay would you elaborate?
Which specific people are the worst?
You don't have to name names.
- I don't want to name names
but most of the people in the final clubs.
- Okay, so the final clubs.
- Not to get controversial.
- No, get controversial.
So, again, for people who might not know
what are the final clubs?
- They're a bunch of rich pricks.
- That's a good answer.
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- [Interviewer] What's the worst thing about Princeton?
- Um, probably the weather.
We're both from Florida.
(laughing)
- Rough transition.
- This morning was not good.
So, we're getting used to it again.
- But this is, we're lucking out today, I guess.
- Yes (laughing)
- It's a lot of work.
- Um, the exams?
- The exams, hard?
- Yeah, like the grading here is really hard on students.
- The grading.
- The grading, okay.
It's like, hard? - Yeah.
- It's hard, yeah.
- And the stress incurred by the grading.
- Fair enough.
- Probably how sleepy it is.
How bourgeois it is.
How like, the degree to which it's like really,
I mean, the town is mostly made up of very wealthy people.
And the university for a very long time was you know,
basically exclusively populated by very wealthy people.
And so there's a real way in which like,
a certain kind of critical thinking
in a kind of relationship to the world
is like shut off here like it's a real bubble.
- Sure.
- Which like, really unfortunately reflects
in the way that students sort of think
and act a lot of the time.
I think there's a real, there's a really
kind of deep conservatism to this place
that's been around for decades and it's hard to shake
even by sort of self-described progressive liberal people.
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- [Interviewer] What's the worst thing about Dartmouth?
- Cold.
- I'm from California so I have to say the weather.
- 'Cause of the weather? - Yeah.
- Definitely the speed, you never get a break.
It's always one thing to the next, man.
- Probably the quick 10 week academic term
goes by really fast and there's a lot of material
pressed into that.
- I got an "oh my god" over here.
Agreed?
(laughing)
- Sometimes you can kinda feel kinda far away
from everything else that's going on in the city
but I like being in New Hampshire a lot at the same time.
- Of being in a rural area.
You don't have like, I guess,
the things that you can get from living in a city.
Like for example, concerts or, I don't know.
(laughing) Other urban things.
- Incredible amount of work.
- A lot of work?
- Yeah. - Sure.
- It's kind of isolated which, I guess you could
see that as a pro and a con but that is one thing.
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- [Interviewer] What's the worst thing about Brown?
- Maybe the food at the Ratty.
- Okay. (laughing)
- It's pretty bad.
- And the Ratty is?
- It's like the main dining hall here.
- Got it.
- The Ratty.
- I'm gonna go for the cliche of the miserably overcooked
vegetables at the Ratty.
- The food.
- The food? - Yeah.
It kind of sucks. (laughing)
- We've heard that pretty consistently.
- We don't have enough libraries.
- Oh. How many do you have?
- I think five.
- [Interviewer] What's the worst thing about Cornell?
- The weather.
(laughing)
I don't know, I come from Boulder, it's like so sunny.
- You're from Boulder?
- Yeah. - I'm from Denver.
He went to CU Boulder.
- Oh, nice. Yeah.
- We're both from Denver. - Wow.
- Anyway. - So you get it.
Sun's pretty important.
- Yeah and this is not usual sun here.
- Right, if this is how the weather was I would never leave
but instead I am going home this summer, so.
- Fair enough.
- Probably the winter.
- Yeah. - Yeah, it's true,
it's quite cold but yeah.
- This is not typical?
- Not typical.
- Not at all.
That's why everyone's outside.
It's usually like, I don't know where everyone goes
when it's cold out but they're not here, yeah.
- Of course the workload.
I guess it varies from person to person but I think,
yeah the workload and just like maybe the lack of,
the lack of resources for students in terms of
mental health, you know.
'Cause it does get serious and there's not adequate
ways students can express themselves and express
the troubles they're having.
So I think that's definitely something that needs
to be updated especially given the amount of work
that we're given.
Or like, reduce the work.
Like, one or the other.
- Do one of those things. - Yeah.
- The workload.
Some weeks are actually terrible.
Like, library, like 60 hours a week.
- Some weeks. - What?
- Some weeks. - That's more, like--
- Some weeks!
There were weeks this semester where I had three exams
in one week and I literally was in the library
for like, 10 hours a day.
- At least we have
pretty libraries. - A day, a day.
- That's good.
- But then there are other weeks where you don't
go to the library at all and you like, go on hikes
and it's so fun.
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- [Interviewer] What's the worst thing about Columbia?
- Um, I don't know.
The air of competition that you kinda sense walking around.
It's intimidating sometimes.
- I'd say walking.
I'm not a walker.
- Lot of walking. - Yeah.
- Maybe personally, traffic.
'Cause New York Metro is just like, terrible.
- Right.
- For me currently, my issue is that there aren't enough
cubicles to study in. - Oh.
A lot of them are reserved by grad students
so if you sit down in one of them
they might like, come in and tell you to leave.
- They get mad?
- They don't get mad.
They're very nice about it but it's just like, annoying
that I love studying in a cubicle 'cause I can be focused
but it's hard to find a good study spot.
- I would say the pre-professional culture
'cause I feel like at Columbia,
just because it's also, again, in New York City
there's a lot of pressure of people getting jobs.
Like, I'm a freshman but I'm attending a finance major.
Already been to a couple, networking events and everything
I just feel like people focus too much on finding
a job rather than just being in a college environment.
- The elevators.
If you try to take the elevators in the engineering building
which is where I just came from, it takes like 10 minutes
to go up ten floors just 'cause it's so crowded.
- Feels like that shouldn't happen
in the engineering building,
specifically. - I know, right, yeah.
- They gotta work on that.
- It's so packed.
Yeah, like, in the day.
'Cause I'm a freshman, during NSOP,
which is the orientation program,
like it's so quiet and all the scenery without the people.
It's really nice but like, when school actually starts
when you have to go out for a 1010 class
and there's just so many people.
- Too many people? - Too many people, yeah.
It's so packed.
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- [Interviewer] What's the worst thing about Penn?
- The worst thing about Penn is that it's not Harvard.
- Yeah.
- You heard it here. - Yeah, heard it here first.
- I feel like it's a little bit of a pressure cooker
to be able to go out all the time
always be doing something socially
and then also be on top of your academics.
So it's really hard to try to find that balance.
- It's a double-edged sword.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- The amount of homework, yeah.
- Sure, sure.
- A lot of homework.
- The worst thing about Penn is probably
the competition that's here
which is like, it's so overwhelming
and there's so many classes and they're so difficult
and getting used to everything is pretty difficult, so.
- Totally.
- I would say sometimes the people also, double-edge sword.
Depends on that.
Depends which crowd.
- Well, we're both in the engineering school
so we just always have a lot of work to do.
- Sure.
- And we live a mile away.
- Oh yeah.
- So it's a long walk. - We live a long way away.
- Okay. (laughing)
- I think there's something that
well we talked about a lot during new student orientation
which is Penn Face.
It's the idea that everyone's walking around
and they have this like, face.
This outward expression that says like,
I've got everything under control
and I'm excelling in everything.
But that's just not true for literally anyone.
- Can you do a Penn face?
- It's like
- Like, Oh my God, Michaela how are you?
- Oh my God, so great. - So great.
- I got so much sleep last night but also
didn't get any sleep at all 'cause I was working so hard.
- Yeah.
- You gotta get all the sleep.
- Yeah, exactly.
- Got it, got it.
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- [Crowd] Aww.