So, after taking multiple trips to Harvard Square for my own purposes, my curiousity finally got to me and I said to myself, "Sarah, you should go take a look at Harvard, where all the smarties go." And I went. I suppose the area I wandered around is the Cambridge Side but I got a good look at the old campus areas, including the law school, science school, Memorial Hall, and the Graduate Schood of Design.
Let me tell you one thing: Rice University is an impeccable school that spends a loooot of time and money on primping the campus; Harvard is not. I suppose I compare the two because Rice is supposedly the "Harvard of the South," but the two schools, layout and feel wise, are vastly different. The main difference lies in the closed campus aspect of Rice. One loop, a grid of buildings and complete order. Harvard, on the other hand, is chaos! Buildings are scattered everywhere and main streets run over and through the center of campus. Plus, there are some teeerrrrribly ugly buildings, such as the School of Science and all of the strange contraptions that lie about it. However, memorial hall is quite beautiful and grand (see picture below), and the housing courtyards are nice and shady with towers of old trees blanketing the sky.
Nevertheless, their grass is dying and Rice would never (neeeevvveeeer) stand for that!
Also pictured, Graduate School of Design.
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