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It's not just the universities in the UK who don't have the "spirit" that we do...it's that way in Germany and France, too. I had friends who lived there and went to French and German universities, and they thought I was nuts when I talked about what our football and basketball games were like, my sorority, etc. They just didn't understand. I had the opportunity to visit a university in Saarbruck and another in France, and I remember them being soooooooo ugly...the buildings were just concrete squares, there was no landscaping or anything, and the dorm rooms were like tiny closets with no carpet (but they did have private bathrooms). I think it would be a heck of a stretch to get excited about a school that looked like that.
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