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I walked the campus at cal tech a few days ago. It feels like a real college. Other colleges could be mistaken for luxury resorts or spas. They feel like a gimmick. But at cal everything looks normal. It looks like a place where people actually come to work and learn. It has a monastic quality in comparison. A place where people are truly preoccupied with the truth. It’s the first university I’ve been to that felt like that. Besides maybe Stanford.

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The oldest part of the University of Edinburgh, called "The Old College" would, I think, excite you as much as it did me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_College,_University_of_E...

Street view from the courtyard: https://maps.app.goo.gl/f2o6V8JFpPtMW5R47

It's an incredible and beautiful 200+ year old building that's been continually used for teaching since it was built. On the one end of time, it's construction was halted because the Napoleonic wars cost too much. On the other, I had lectures about machine learning in it.

The rest of the university is more modern, but that place always felt like the soul of the Uni to me.

My state school was like that. It's just buildings. Most schools are like that!

I have stayed at many luxury resorts, and they don’t resemble any university or college I’ve toured or attended. Possibly you just find the Pasadena-area architecture particularly inviting?

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