Funny you should mention that. I think the thing I miss the most about attending a well-known, old-school Ivy campus (long, long ago) was the nearly infinite a

Funny you should mention that. I think the thing I miss the most about attending a well-known, old-school Ivy campus (long, long ago) was the nearly infinite amount of "available space" for study/just plain getting away by one's self, or hanging out with friends. There was the third-floor applied engineering library where no one ever went (where I often studied), the grad student "pen" in the basement of the computing center (this was a long time ago, when PDP-10's roamed the earth), the endless open classrooms in the science center, the mini-lounges on many floors of the chemistry building, to say nothing of the dozen-plus houses (dorms, though I was an off-campus student for the last 3 years), etc. I'd make a wild guess there might be on the order of magnitude of a million square feet of usually unoccupied, interesting, pleasant space on campus (which stretched for a over mile in some dimensions). (To say nothing of the many unlocked facilities like the small pipe organ in one of the dozens of performance halls, etc.) In some sense, access to that kind of space is the ultimate luxury, whether for work or play.