Vassar College — Attraction in Town of Poughkeepsie

First of all, I do not attend school so I cannot comment on the quality of education you'll receive at Vassar College. I enjoy visiting various colleges and universities and I take photos because I find them very photogenic and Vassar did not disappoint me at all. Walking through the campus was very peaceful and quiet. It was Parents Weekend and the college was giving tours. I went everywhere with my cameras. My first stop was the college library. It is beautiful in the inside just like the outside. Check out the stained glass window inside the reading area. I found the science building very interesting too. When I went to the chapel somebody was giving instructions or possibly lessions on the huge pipe organ. Sunset Lake provided a great photo opportunity. Vassar Lake was not as pretty. The Main Building was busy with visiting parents. I briefly went into the art gallery but I had my backpack of camera equipment with me and I did not want to leave it anywhere. I would have loved to have seen it. Vassar Collage: famous...

Class of 1964. High school in a small upstate NY village, but I learned how to think, evaluate and always, always go to the source before making up my mind. Fifty years later I still think it was my most important educational experience, and I say that having been a physician. Quiet, gorgeous campus. My only sadness is that it became co-ed in the 1970s. I think the same-sex experience was very important for me and gave me the confidence to be able to face medical school, overwhelmingly male in the 1960s. Generous scholarships made it possible for this young woman to have four wonderful years of education that still...

I graduated VC in 1979. It remains with me as a remarkable educational experience. Be prepared to work, and work hard, but there is no end to what you can do there. Remarkable independence, remarkable respect for learning, remarkable intellectual vigor and happiness. How I remember those great winters sitting in the library reading philosophy while the wind blew - then, of course, down to the...