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just the right size. people think if you go here you're really smart (not always true). time spent at frat houses is good time spent. people like going to school here and enjoy being a commodore mainly if they go to sports games.

The best thing about Vanderbilt is the balance between campus-life and city-life. I don't think any school has a better environmental balance than Vandy! If I could change one thing, I would make hypnotize every person here like they did in Shallow Hal. Oh, and I would force-feed the vandorexics. I think Vandy has the perfect number of students, but you definitely get to know a lot of the student population by the end of your experience. When I tell people I go to Vanderbilt, they usually say: Oh you must be really smart. I spend most of my time on campus either in my room or in a friend's room. You definitely get the college town experience. Nashville is small, and college students are prevalent. About Vanderbilt's administration: where is all our money going exactly? The biggest recent controversy on campus was probably Jered Amato getting fired from his position as editor of the Hustler newspaper. In my mind, there is no controversy: he was making up blatant lies and feeding them to the student body. There is a lot of school pride in a sense, but only when kids want an excuse to get together and get trashed. There are a lot of things that are unusual about Vanderbilt, but that all depends on your perspective. Is not having enough student parking unusual - yes. Is not being able to take a course pass/fail while abroad unusual - yes. Are pastels on guys unusual - yes. I will always remember my experience at Squirrel Camp and my time living on Peabody. Neither of these things will mean nearly the same thing after the changes being made this year. Squirrel Camp is discontinued; Peabody is for freshman. The most frequent student complaints are: lack of parking, lack of parking, and lack of parking. Oh, and frequent tickets due to lack of parking.

Favorite thing: The atmosphere it has, especially in the spring, when fraternities are playing music outside and everyone dresses happily in bright colors and basks in the weather. I'd change the housing situation, but the university is working on that. I think it's the exact right size. People don't react very much when I tell them I go to Vandy; people nod appreciatively or else they don't know where it is. Most of my time is spent in my suite.

Best things: leafy collegiate campus environment, beautiful weather with all four seasons. What we're known for: a million squirrels on campus, a football team that can never seem to get it together (but everyone still loves them), all-you-can-eat Saturday and Sunday brunch, Founders' Walk during freshmen orientation

There are lot of great things about Vanderbilt. It is a very beatiful campus and I think the student body is just about the right size. There are plenty of great activties to get involved in. It is not much of a college town but people don't leave campus that much anyway. If your looking for a school with a large activist movement Vanderbilt isn't for you. The first word I would use to describe Vanderbilt Students is busy. Most people have a difficult academic schedule and have jobs, clubs, sports teams. My biggest complaint about the Vanderbilt administration is that they hold the greek system to diferent standard as the rest of campus. Any school rule that is broken is going to have a far less severe consequesnce if it is done within the context of greek life. Also Vanderbilt requires students to live on campus and provides housing far inferior to what you could find on your own.

The best thing about Vanderbilt is day drinking in the spring. The school is just the right size. When people know I go to Vandy, if they are not in the same socioeconomic class they ask if I'm really smart, if they are they ask what fraternity I'm in. I spend most of my time at the frat house. Nashville has a college town atmosphere, but Vanderbilt students for the most part (apart from community service) segregate themselves from the rest of Nashville. Vanderbilt's administration is draconian and pitifully inept. The biggest recent controversy was the mandated four years on campus, which sucks for two reasons. First there are strict on campus alcohol policies which mean frats need an off campus establishment to throw real parties at which is difficult when no one can live off campus. The second is that compared to most schools, especially ones that have four year on campus policies or students live on campus in general, the dorms are pieces of shit. The new ones are nice and they offer somewhat edible cafeteria food, but the older ones are awful. More than that, besides seniors, everyone has to share a room or live in a single, there's very little existence of doubles, triples, etcs. that have seperate rooms. That's really just weird to live in a single room with another guy/girl and have no cooking space, have a bathroom shared with the rest of your hall, etc.

The nice thing about Vanderbilt is that its small enough to know most of the people in your class (and more), but it's large enough to feel like your aren't stuck with the same people all the time for four years. Also, there are a lot of opportunities to hear live music around campus, including Rites of Spring, a whole music festival on Vanderbilt's campus, that is always a highlight of every academic year.

The school is the perfect size. It is made a lot smaller by the division between Greeks and non Greeks, but you always walk through campus and see someone you know and so many other people you do not. Most people in the North do not know about Vanderbilt, they think it is Villanova. Sometimes they might mention that they have heard of our basketball team but overall it is not well known. But this is improving, even in the 4 years I have been here more and more people are hearing that it is a good school. It is always surprising the amount of school pride that we have. During first semester it seems no one really cares about school spirit because football should be our biggest sport but no one really cares about the actual games. But then basketball season starts and its amazing to see the spirit and community at a home game such as against UT or FL. People got to Memorial Gym over 12 hours before to get first row seats for the UT game - if you came any later than 2 hours before the game you couldnt get it!

Vandy is the perfect size... Vandy has a college town feel when your on campus then you cross the street and are in downtown Nashville.

i wish vanderbilt was a little better and had a little nicer of a campus. where the classes are is pretty but the dorms are ugly and i wish there was more mixing of classes and not having freshmen seperated and spread out everywhere. i also wish there was alot more school pride and people actually got involved. alot of people on campus do get involved but they aren't very vocal about it so it seems as if everyone just studies and parties.