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- [Interviewer] What is the best thing about Harvard?
- [Student] I would say house life.
- House life, okay. - Um hmm.
- For people who don't know about House life,
could you talk a bit about it?
- Well, there are 12 residential houses,
and we are randomly assigned to one
and each one has its own flavor,
it's own little community.
I happen to live in Kirkland house, and it's great.
- That's the best house.
I lived in Kirkland house.
- Did you really?
- Yeah I did, and then I graduated.
Here I am you know.
- Best thing about Harvard is the Kirkland dining hall.
- Kirkland dining hall?
- Kirkland in general.
- You know I got to say the intellectual atmosphere.
It's really interesting to have conversations with Abigail,
or other people like that
about politics or sciences or philosophy.
- Just different people from all walks of life.
I mean, you meet somebody from anywhere,
and it's amazing, yeah.
- People are pretty funny.
They're all casually smart.
A lot of 'em are really humble and
just overall great, meet any one of 'em
and spend some time with 'em
and you'll really like 'em,
so it makes it easy to make friends.
- Got to be the students.
I've made amazing friends with my roommates and I think
that those friendships are going to last forever.
- The location, probably.
- The location okay.
- Yeah. - Cambridge, near Boston.
- Yeah.
- How often do you get into Boston?
- Almost everyday. - Almost everyday?
- Yeah.
- Do you think that's unusual for Harvard students?
- Probably. - Okay.
- The prestige is good.
- Go on.
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- I don't know, it's just I like having the tourists here.
It's fun, I like it here.
I like that they are enjoying it too, hopefully.
- There's some dope math and physics professors here.
- Yeah if I had to say so
I'm probably be the best thing about Harvard.
- You're the best thing about Harvard?
Okay.
Is anyone going to dispute that or?
- I don't know I can't.
- [Interviewer] All right congrats, congrats again.
What is the best thing about Princeton?
- Probably just the environment as a whole.
The student population, everybody's always friendly.
Everybody has a smile on their face.
Everybody is willing to push each other,
but also help each other.
- Probably the campus.
It's so nice, and it's amazing.
And it feels really homey.
- Yeah, in many ways, it's a pretty lame town to be in.
- Sure. - There's not a lot going on,
but the fact that it's like
not in nature, but yeah, it more.
- But it's very, it's very pretty.
Even if it's not super busy.
- And it's for sure very pretty, especially.
- There's always something to do.
And that spans across you know not just academic interests,
but also like sports you can play,
things you see on campus that are really cool
that you won't just get anywhere else.
- I would say the professors.
There are a lot of professors from different walks
of the world, that you wouldn't get a chance
to meet or engage with, unless you were here.
- [Interviewer] What's the best thing about Dartmouth?
- Definitely the students and the professors you know.
They're always accessible.
There's never a time where I don't feel
uncomfortable going in to see a professor, and talk about
you know issues that I'm having with a class.
Or getting help on homework or any of that.
- I think the best thing here is the people.
Everyone's really nice.
You say hi to literally everyone when you're walking by.
It's a big sense of community, which is really nice.
- Outdoors, you can go out, you can go mountain biking.
You can go skiing, it's great.
- I like the environment of it.
It's very connected and it's a small campus
which makes it easy to make friends,
and make good connections here.
- I really like the D-Plan.
I think that even though it's only 10 weeks each term,
it's not very stressful, as most students had told me.
- What is that?
- The D-Plan?
The fact that we're on a quarter system,
not a semester system.
- Got it.
- The people here are amazing and it's a beautiful location.
- I think the best thing about Dartmouth is just like
the sense of community here.
Everyone works together,
like you don't feel like you're constantly
competing against your peers.
- [Interviewer What is the best thing about Brown?
- Definitely the community that people have.
There's something really special about
Brown students and Brown professors,
that has a very particular learning environment
that really encourages personal development
rather than just GPA, or resume boosting.
- Okay.
- I think like the freedom.
You get to do whatever you want to do.
Like academically, be on academics I think.
It's like you are your own person.
- Totally.
- Yeah.
- I enjoy the shopping period
and open curriculum that we offer.
- It's a really laid back vibe.
Everyone is really nice here.
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This is really bad.
- Great no, it's going great.
- I would say the opportunity to do pass fail,
so that you can take courses that
you might be uncomfortable taking.
- I guess it's definitely the open curriculum.
I came to Brown wanting to be a Cultural Anthropologist,
and now I've never taken a Cultural Anthropology class.
But that's still my advisor.
So I've been taking classes
and like lots of different random things,
but no math and that's been great.
- No math.
- I think so far for me it's probably the Ivy room.
Just I love food there and I love
going with friends every night.
On the weekend I get pretty sad,
because it's not open.
The filifoli is my favorite so far.
- [Interviewer] Great
So what is the best thing about Cornell?
- Cornell is huge.
There's lots of different personalities here.
You're, probably gonna like,
there's so many people, you're gonna find your place here.
You're gonna find a community.
It's very easy to find your place
'cause there's so many people.
So I guess yeah the people and just
the collabortiveness that I feel like,
yeah I feel like it can get cut throat,
but for the most part, no.
There's a sense of camaraderie and suffering together.
- Sure sure.
- So yeah, that's also nice.
- I would say probably would say chilling on the Art squad
after class when there's really nice weather out.
It's really beautiful.
- Hanging out with friends, like Lily.
(laughs)
- Friendship.
- Great resources here too.
- Sure.
- Well I think because you've 13 different colleges.
You have people with really diverse perspectives
and backgrounds that engage in a way
that you don't normally get
from a larger school environment typically.
I study environmental sustainability
and food systems through religion,
so there's like four people in my department,
but I take classes that range from 100 to like five kids.
- Yeah.
- And they all come from different,
like really, really different areas of study.
And I think that's allowed me to kind of view my work
in a different way.
- I would say besides the people,
my favorite part about Cornell
is the beautiful nature and the landscapes.
There's so many waterfalls,
different hikes to do on campus.
We even have a lake on campus.
Really I would say that the topography here
is unmatched to any other campus that I've seen. (laughs)
- [Interviewer] Topography.
Great use of Typography.
Yeah.
So what is the best thing about Columbia?
- So I guess about the location,
and the resources on the campus
'cause it's located in New York.
And there are a lot of exciting things going on
like events, and students club and activities.
So you can always find something interesting.
- The official answer is the core.
- The official answer, what's the unofficial answer?
- For me, it's probably JJ's place.
(laughs) - That's like a 24 hour
dining hall where you can get junk food.
- That sounds awesome.
- Well it's a great education.
It's got a beautiful campus and it's right
in the middle of the city,
so you have so many resources.
It's just a cultural hub of food and places to visit.
- I think the best thing is you know
the location is pretty good.
Having this kind of campus, good environment
within New York city, so it's really good experience.
You have campus sort of life circumstance
right here and you just step out and
New York city is very crowded and fast paced life.
So I think it's pretty cool.
- Honestly the people.
So I'm coming from a place where all the people
were really similar, but here I'm meeting
people with a bunch of different ideas, different interests.
I know people on my floor who have
millions of listens on Spotify.
I know a person who's trying to work
on a movie for Netflix
and I've never really been exposed to that before.
But then you've also just got people who are
really nice, really kind and who
want to collaborate with you on your work.
- [Interviewer] Amazing.
What is the best thing about Penn?
- The best thing about Penn
is that it doesn't really snow that much here.
- Oh, that's good. - Yeah.
- All right there are a lot of best things about Penn,
but one of them for sure is that we have a really
great balance of academic and social lives here.
And there are a lot of communities to get involved in.
Everyone can feel included if they find their own niche.
And above all else,
we also have a great one university policy,
which really brings the student body together
in a very holistic way.
- The best thing about Penn is that you are
encouraged to be your best self,
like to be yourself and everyone accepts you.
So that's one of the best things
that I have encountered here at Penn.
- The student body, we're super vibrant.
Somehow with a class of 2000 kids,
I run into all the people I know everyday.
Everyone's really there for you.
Everyone's out there give you a hug, helping you
with your homework, just say hi when you need it.
- My favorite thing about Penn is how it's
in a big city, but when you're on campus
it really doesn't feel like it.
'Cause it's such a unique area and space
and locusts walk it really doesn't feel like you're
in a middle of a huge city.
But you can go outside of it and you're in Philadelphia.
- Great.
- City environment.
There's a lot to do.
- Great, great.
Same question.
- Fun people.
- I feel like all the students here and stuff like that.
It's a really fun community and we definitely
have a good time, but we also get our work done
and I'm learning a lot too.
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