American University of Beirut
by ano on Apr.10, 2009, under everything
The American University of Beirut (AUB) is one of the most prestigious universities in the Middle East. Established by American missionaries in 1866, this place is completely awesome and feels like any US college campus. Note to any college students reading this: do a semester abroad here. All of the classes are taught in English and you hear English and French chatter all over campus.
Modern buildings, spotlessly clean campus, water fountains, the works.
Gorgeous athletic fields overlooking the Mediterranean Sea
Inside the Bechtel Engineering Building...we have a Bechtel building at Cal as well, but its not as nice as this one.
Amazing! It seems like 95% of the Middle East consists of chain smokers. Impressive to have a smoke free campus.
I'd definitely want to do a semester here!
Part of the campus square, with students constantly milling about. The whole campus feels so alive and really indistinguishable from a college campus in the US.
A beautiful mix of ultra modern and classic brick buildings.
April 10th, 2009 on 9:18 am
Ummmm….Can we blow up the sunset over the water pic into wall size and put that in our living room. It looks like one of those “motivation” posters. Great shots man. Your pictures make me feel like I’m almost there.