For those of you in college/university (mainly large universities)

[tokamak]

Originally posted by: MeanMeosh

Originally posted by: hopeless879
I go to Ohio State University, second largest University in the country IIRC, behind Texas A&M. Its very easily a city in itself, you could go to school there for 4 years without ever having to leave the campus.

hah, lies spread by the OSU folk! ut-austin is the largest unversity in the country, and, i do believe, in the world (not sure about that). it has over 50,000 students, that alone makes it larger than several texas towns.

anyway, i think jester might actually be the largest dorm in the world, not the second largest. jester can be totally self-contained for a period of something like two months or so, if it is sealed off from everything. it is its own voting precinct.

ut-austin has two zipcodes (78712 and 78713), 6 power plants, one huge mail-office to sort through all the mail, takes up something like 110 square blocks (8 blocks one north-south, 13 blocks east-west, 6 extra blocks that don't fit in the pattern). it is self-contained as well, due to the amount of government research that went on over here in the cold war.

not the largest in the world. as of 1999, UNAM in Mexico's enrollment was 269,516. also, i live on campus (in a dorm), and my ZIP code is 78705. whats up with that?

 

[Supermercado]

Originally posted by: minendo
South Bend population is approximately 108,000. An additional city which contains the portion of US 31 that travels along side of Notre Dame is Roseland which has a population of ~706. Looking for stats on ND, IN.

I believe the population of ND, IN is fairly close to the number of students/staff at IN.

Students and faculty/staff at Notre Dame is something like 12 or 13,000, isn't it? Smaller than Clemson's, I believe (between students and faculty/staff, it's closer to 20,000). A quick search brings up approximately 80,000 capacity for Notre Dame Stadium. Our stadium has a seated capacity of about 83,000, I think. If measuring by Notre Dame, IN and Notre Dame Stadium versus Clemson, SC and Memorial Stadium, Notre Dame would have the edge, yes. Wherever that was that I read about the 6:1 bit must have been counting South Bend. Oh, well. I guess you learn something new every day, though.

 

[ed21x]

UC Berkeley here. Right smack in the middle of the Berkeley Ghetto where 60 year old bums/former hippies make incoherent noises on the streets.

What sets us apart? hmmm... we have fairly decent mexican food... every once in awhile, we appear on the news for something stupid... and we have this one building that is home to the last three suicides on campus. Other than that, its a pretty decent place 🙂

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: SuperCommando
Students and faculty/staff at Notre Dame is something like 12 or 13,000, isn't it? Smaller than Clemson's, I believe (between students and faculty/staff, it's closer to 20,000). A quick search brings up approximately 80,000 capacity for Notre Dame Stadium. Our stadium has a seated capacity of about 83,000, I think. If measuring by Notre Dame, IN and Notre Dame Stadium versus Clemson, SC and Memorial Stadium, Notre Dame would have the edge, yes. Wherever that was that I read about the 6:1 bit must have been counting South Bend. Oh, well. I guess you learn something new every day, though.

You'd be amazed at how many people show up for ND games, that don't have seats in the stadium. I would venture to guess that over 100,000 fans show up each week for the games.

 

[karmasalad]

I work and went to school at NYU. If it weren't for the big purple flags flying out front, you wouldn't be able to tell university buildings from any other building. We're part of the city.

 

[Supermercado]

Originally posted by: minendo
You'd be amazed at how many people show up for ND games, that don't have seats in the stadium. I would venture to guess that over 100,000 fans show up each week for the games.

Oh, I believe it. We don't fill Death Valley every week (hard to get 83,000 to show up for a game against Furman after getting whooped by Georgia a week before, though, but I'd say we did have close to 60,000), but we do a pretty good job considering the size of our school and surrounding city (you said Notre Dame, IN was actually inside of South Bend? A lot of people attending the game probably live in South Bend, then?). There's not much in the way of large cities in this part of the state. Greenville's the largest city west of Columbia (the largest, but they have their own school there), about 45 minutes away with a population of about 70,000, I believe. Against Georgia a week and a half ago, we had roughly 83,000 on hand with however many thousand outside the stadium.

 

[minendo]

but we do a pretty good job considering the size of our school and surrounding city (you said Notre Dame, IN was actually inside of South Bend? A lot of people attending the game probably live in South Bend, then?).

Nope. I lived in South Bend for a few years and never once went to a game. It is impossible to get tickets, and almost all that attend games come in from other places. Route 80 from both Ohio and Chicago becomse packed, US 31 in Roseland is basically closed, etc. Farmers up to 5 miles from the stadium offer parking on their land and bus in the fans. Across from the stadium is the old Junior Irish soccer fields (12-15 fields in all) that are filled with cars parking, the entire campus is filled with cars, and the nearby businesses also fill up for parking. There is good money to be made selling space for parking. We parked at an Italian restaurant across from the soccer fields and they wanted to charge us $20 (they parked 50-75 cars), but we got in free since we know the owner.

 

[kokemon23]

Originally posted by: Dezign
Oh, and UPenn has its own cows and dairy farm. Best... ice cream... EVAR! 😀

i believe you're talking about Penn State!! UPenn is in Philly, Penn State is in the middle of nowhere in pennsylvania. I'm a penn stater, you're right, the creamery ice cream is the best ever!!!!

 

[Supermercado]

Originally posted by: minendo
Nope. I lived in South Bend for a few years and never once went to a game. It is impossible to get tickets, and almost all that attend games come in from other places. Route 80 from both Ohio and Chicago becomse packed, US 31 in Roseland is basically closed, etc. Farmers up to 5 miles from the stadium offer parking on their land and bus in the fans. Across from the stadium is the old Junior Irish soccer fields (12-15 fields in all) that are filled with cars parking, the entire campus is filled with cars, and the nearby businesses also fill up for parking. There is good money to be made selling space for parking. We parked at an Italian restaurant across from the soccer fields and they wanted to charge us $20 (they parked 50-75 cars), but we got in free since we know the owner.

That sounds familiar. The three state highways that come into Clemson all become packed on gameday, streets are changed to one-way, etc. All the streets right around the stadium basically become pedestrian only a few hours before and after the game, the intramural sports fields are turned into parking lots, normal student parking lots have to be vacated 12 hours prior to gametime, and basically anywhere on and around campus where a car can fit becomes a parking spot. There's not much in the way of parking in downtown Clemson (small, narrow streets, buildings close together, etc.), but the churches offer parking for a fee. Pretty crazy. For the Georgia game, I parked my car at 9 the previous night (noon kickoff) and stayed with friends on campus to avoid the hassle of gameday traffic.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: SuperCommando
That sounds familiar. The three state highways that come into Clemson all become packed on gameday, streets are changed to one-way, etc. All the streets right around the stadium basically become pedestrian only a few hours before and after the game, the intramural sports fields are turned into parking lots, normal student parking lots have to be vacated 12 hours prior to gametime, and basically anywhere on and around campus where a car can fit becomes a parking spot. There's not much in the way of parking in downtown Clemson (small, narrow streets, buildings close together, etc.), but the churches offer parking for a fee. Pretty crazy. For the Georgia game, I parked my car at 9 the previous night (noon kickoff) and stayed with friends on campus to avoid the hassle of gameday traffic.

I've been to the stadium before (actually played soccer there), but I don't remember much about the area around Clemson.

 

[Supermercado]

Originally posted by: minendo
I've been to the stadium before (actually played soccer there), but I don't remember much about the area around Clemson.

The football stadium or the soccer field? If you remember the name of the soccer stadium at all, that's Riggs Field.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: SuperCommando

Originally posted by: minendo
I've been to the stadium before (actually played soccer there), but I don't remember much about the area around Clemson.

The football stadium or the soccer field? If you remember the name of the soccer stadium at all, that's Riggs Field.

We played in the football stadium. It was during the South Carolina State tournament several years ago.

 

[arod]

Another A&M Student here.... we have almost everything imaginable on university property. Except a public gas station. Thats the only thing I can think of. But theres 20 or so within a mile of the perimeter of campus. Also as far as actual acerage I think were still number #1 largest actual acreage.

 

[Supermercado]

Originally posted by: minendo
We played in the football stadium. It was during the South Carolina State tournament several years ago.

Wow, cool. I didn't know that they did anything other than football (they did have graduation there a couple of years ago while the coliseum was being renovated, though) on the field.

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: SuperCommando
Students and faculty/staff at Notre Dame is something like 12 or 13,000, isn't it? Smaller than Clemson's, I believe (between students and faculty/staff, it's closer to 20,000). A quick search brings up approximately 80,000 capacity for Notre Dame Stadium. Our stadium has a seated capacity of about 83,000, I think. If measuring by Notre Dame, IN and Notre Dame Stadium versus Clemson, SC and Memorial Stadium, Notre Dame would have the edge, yes. Wherever that was that I read about the 6:1 bit must have been counting South Bend. Oh, well. I guess you learn something new every day, though.

You'd be amazed at how many people show up for ND games, that don't have seats in the stadium. I would venture to guess that over 100,000 fans show up each week for the games.

It's crazy. I'm a freshman at ND, and it's amazing how many people you see just milling around Saturday morning, tailgating and all that. You walk into the dining hall at noon, and 2/3rd of the people in there are not students.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: LordJezo
Rutgers has poor funding, the worst football team in the NCAA, and rated the ugliest campus in NJ.

I think that sets us apart.

It's also the 6th oldest school in the country but no one cares about that.

Isn't there a serial rapist running around Rutgers or did they finally comprehend him?