{"id":289,"date":"2011-09-23T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T21:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymajors.com\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2020-12-11T21:03:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:03:15","slug":"east-coast-college-touring-day-2-8122011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/east-coast-college-touring-day-2-8122011\/","title":{"rendered":"East Coast College Touring Day 2, 8\/12\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog.mymajors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clay-banks-Qex6B3UR6J0-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clay-banks-Qex6B3UR6J0-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clay-banks-Qex6B3UR6J0-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clay-banks-Qex6B3UR6J0-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clay-banks-Qex6B3UR6J0-unsplash-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/clay-banks-Qex6B3UR6J0-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The day started out bright and early in Providence. Very nice weather. Sunny, breezy, perfect for walking [which we did A LOT of] Dad got us breakfast from Starbucks, and after we were packed and ready, headed out to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island School of Design- We only had a tour here, no information session to go to today but here are some of my thoughts\/noted facts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>School campus environment is NICE. Like&#8230; its up on a giant hill [eh&#8230; well. it takes effort to climb the stupid hill but whatever] Pretty trees shade the whole campus. Red brick\/colonial style buildings. Yeah.<\/li>\n<li>But despite everything being pretty, it is OLD. like&#8230; really old \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<li>Lots of spacious drawing rooms.<\/li>\n<li>Nature Lab is basically a library of stuffed\/preserved animals\/organisms O.O It WAS cool though.<\/li>\n<li>First year housing&#8230; looked kinda run down to be honest. BUT. I saw everyone paint their doorways to match their personal style. That was cute! Those dorm rooms were noticeably bigger than those in Boston University.<\/li>\n<li>Haha. The workrooms my dad commented looked like LA. Spray paint graffiti EVERYWHERE. Looks fun&#8230; but kinda ghetto. XD<\/li>\n<li>So&#8230; the people there. The people were kind of&#8230; different? XD For one, our tour guides, the girl had a hoop nose ring and the guy was obviously gay- like&#8230; wearing a glittery gold top. As for the other two students on the tour, one was dressed punk like&#8230; the other was just&#8230; i dunno what you would call it. Not that I have anything against these people. It just didn&#8217;t really give a good impression on my parents who I would hang out with at this school.<\/li>\n<li>Getting around town is easy enough. Especially with a school ID, bus fare is free!<\/li>\n<li>Oh! Traditionally, the school made you do three mandatory portfolio pieces to apply, starting this year, it&#8217;s only two!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yep. So&#8230; anyways, I&#8217;m not going to design school unless I get into Brown&#8217;s Dual-Degree Program in which I get to spend two years at RISD and two years at Brown to get the most out of art and academics \ud83d\ude42 And only 15-20 people get in every year since you need to apply and be accepted to both schools&#8230;. so fingers crossed!<\/p>\n<p>After visiting RISD, we went back to the hotel, checked out, ate lunch, and then headed off to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Brown- Here we took a tour, then visited an information session.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brown was AMAZING. Like&#8230; seriously. I love this school a lot more now than I did before the tour. It&#8217;s RIGHT next to RISD, so basically the same environment, but with newer brick buildings and fancy gates&#8230; yeah.<\/li>\n<li>They have an ORGAN in the multi-purpose room. And an organ playing teacher who can teach you&#8230; while the whole school hears.<\/li>\n<li>I think I wanna join the awkcapella group. An accapella (sp?) group that \u00a0sings badly. &lt;-that is so totally me.<\/li>\n<li>I want to visit that museum they have with a bunch of random stuff&#8230; from the ORIGINAL copy of George Orwell&#8217;s 1984 to the largest comic book collection.<\/li>\n<li>The school runs so that you can CHOOSE your grading system. Whether you want letter grades or a pass\/fail grade. It is all UP TO YOU.<\/li>\n<li>You can also choose which classes you take. No general study. Just WHATEVER YOU WANT.<\/li>\n<li>Professors want you to think of your peers as &#8220;comrades&#8221; rather than &#8220;competition&#8221;. Very friendly.<\/li>\n<li>Classes of more than 40 are broken into smaller discussion groups.<\/li>\n<li>Can be involved in research with professors starting freshman year!<\/li>\n<li>LOL. There&#8217;s a club called &#8220;Dunder-Mifflin&#8221; dedicated to getting together every Thursday to watch\u00a0<em>The Office<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>You get so close with the teachers, you often have lunch\/dinner with the class. Even though class is &#8220;over&#8221;, discussion isn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>You are put in dorms with people you don&#8217;t know. Shoved right into a new family.<\/li>\n<li>After freshman year, lottery for housing. You can choose the specific room you want.<\/li>\n<li>Majors are called &#8220;concentrations&#8221; since you really don&#8217;t declare a major, you just choose classes geared towards a certain area.<\/li>\n<li>You can create your own class. With your own syllabus, and team up with a faculty member for research.<\/li>\n<li>You can study abroad, although most like Brown enough to stay all four years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yep. So&#8230; um. I love Brown. Just so you know.<\/p>\n<p>DUAL-DEGREE ART PROGRAM FTW. [hopefully&#8230;.]<\/p>\n<p>After visiting colleges, we headed drove by the RISD store where I found a coolio Voodoo paper note pad. You know. For whenever I&#8217;m angry or something&#8230; it was just attractive thing to buy. So I did.<\/p>\n<p>Then&#8230; 6 hour drive to Syracuse, where I will visit Syracuse University tomorrow \ud83d\ude42<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day started out bright and early in Providence. Very nice weather. 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