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The “Vassar bubble”, as students call the college, is located in Poughkeepsie, New York, 75 miles from NYC. The Metro North railroad, which takes students into the city, is a ten-minute drive from campus. While Poughkeepsie has a number of quaint restaurants near campus, there is little to do off-campus otherwise. Because Vassar is located in the town of Poughkeepsie--where there is terrible public transportation and not too much going on--most of Vassar life happens on campus, which is wonderful or annoying, depending on how you look at it. There is little-to-no bar scene, and clubbing is not an option. However, there are a number of great restaurants, thanks to Vassar's proximity to the Culinary Institute of America. The most popular students restaurant is the Acropolis Diner, affectionately called “Acrop.” It's nothing special, just a Greek diner like you might find anywhere. It's open 24 hours, and the price is right. Usually students go there at 3 a.m. when they're intoxicated and want greasy, cheap comfort food. For a good meal, students flock to Baby Cakes, which is a short walk from campus. Baby Cakes used to be mainly a breakfast and coffee place but has recently expanded and started to open for dinner. The food is amazing. They have the best crepes, waffles, and pastries, as well as great sandwiches and salads. It's difficult to find a table there for brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. The service can be a little slow and snippy, but that's never stopped large groups of students from going there several times a week. Some students prefer to hang out at the “Cubby Hole,” a coffee place on Raymond Avenue. They have live entertainment on weekend nights, and many Vassar bands and artists play there. There are also two sushi restaurants on Raymond, both of which are quite popular and not half bad. But they're not “hang out” places, they're just places students like to eat. There is a bar or two within walking distance from campus, and students go there sometimes (and often run into their professors there, which is always amusing). Most drinking and partying happens on campus, where people don't have to worry about paying for drinks or getting carded. There is a big disconnect between the Vassar campus and the surrounding community of Poughkeepsie. That being said, there are restaurants, shopping, and movies in the surrounding areas. If you have a car, the small, artsy towns of Rhinebeck and Hyde Park have boutique shopping, restaurants, independent films, and pleasant areas to walk around. The Westchester Center in White Plains is a huge mall with more upscale stores than the local Galleria. Students also go to movies at the cinema at the Galleria and the neighboring South Hills bargain theater. There are many popular restaurants within walking distance. Zorona’s is a Middle Eastern restaurant that lets you bring your own alcohol and sells hookahs and tobacco. Tokyo Express is the favorite sushi restaurant and is located across the street from Miss Saigon, a Vietnamese restaurant with unbelievable pad thai. Baby Cakes is a restaurant and pastry café that is the default Saturday morning hangover haunt for Vassar students. The Beech Tree is a slightly fancier establishment, where more professors tend to hang out. There are a few bars in the area immediate surrounding campus where over-21 students hang out. The most popular is the Dutch Cabin (the Dutch), which is relatively small and usually packed with students and local residents. The Dubliner is an Irish pub within walking distance that has karaoke on Wednesday night and a wide selection of beers on tap. There are also some nicer bars and breweries in New Paltz, in the area surrounding Marist College.

Vassar’s campus is a protected arboretum and looks like a botanical garden. The Main Building, which was the college’s only structure at its inception, is now a national historic landmark. It houses a number of parlors, the most popular one being the Rose Parlour, where tea is served at 3 p.m. All the administrative, academic, and dorm buildings are built in the beautiful Gothic style, except the new, “modern” Noyes hall. During the week, students tend to congregate in places that offer coffee and a quiet place to read and work. UpCDC is a coffee and snack shop located on the top floor of the dining hall. You can order coffee, espresso beverages, smoothies, and yummy snacks and curl up in one of the comfortable chairs or couches with your work. On Thursday nights, UpCDC turns into After Hours, a low-key cabaret of student musicians (typically acoustic guitar-playing folk singers) that usually attracts a significant turnout. The Mug (Matthew’s Mug) is the on-campus dance club and bar. The atmosphere varies greatly depending on the night of the week. Monday night is Trivia Night, Tuesday is Jazz Night (most popular night of the week), Wednesday is 80s Night, and Thursday-Saturday are themed dance parties sponsored by various campus organizations. The Mug from Thursday to Saturday is usually packed with sweaty, intoxicated students dancing to the latest hip-hop music. On those nights, you have to wait in a long line and present your ID to Betty, the well-known security guard who mans the door. Other popular hangouts are The Retreat (especially since it is open until 11 PM), the art museum on Thursday night (they have food and entertainment), Pub Night at the Alumni House, and any of the myriad theater or music performances that are constantly happening around campus.

Vassar grads fondly look back at dorming, even though some didn’t have air conditioning. Almost all Vassar students live on campus, with freshman and sophomores in traditional dorms and upperclassmen sharing apartments and suites. At Vassar, there is fierce dorm loyalty. Student's are assigned to dorms as freshmen and they automatically stay in that dorm for three years, unless they request a switch (there's an annoying and uncertain process for switching dorms). Some dorms have strong personalities, though they changes slightly from year to year. There are nine major dorms on campus, plus one vegan co-op and various forms of senior housing (which are more like apartments). The main dorms are Main, Jewitt, Josselyn (Joss), Cushing, Noyes, Raymond, Davison, Strong, and Lathrop. Davison, Raymond, Strong, and Lathrop are “Quad dorms.” They're identical and, obviously, are located on the quad. The rooms in the quad dorms are some of the smallest. Main is the largest dorm by far. It's also the center of campus and is home to a dining facility, many offices (including the President and Dean of Student's offices) and numerous parlors, meeting places, and random rooms. It was Vassar College's first building. Josselyn and Main have larger rooms and, along with Cushing, are the most beautiful dorms architecturally. Raymond offers a low-key environment perfect for those who actually want to study in their room. Davison houses a wide mix of people, from straitlaced economic students to very liberal “artsy” types. Noyes is very modern-looking. Its doors are shaped like mushrooms, and many people say it's the ugliest building on campus. It is considered the international dorm (though many international students live elsewhere). The lounge in Noyes Hall is referred to as the “Jetson lounge” because it has white furniture and colorful, ultra-modern lamps reminiscent of the 60s. With nine floors and an elevator, Jewitt is the newest and tallest dorm. It has an eight-story tower and is also located on the quad. Recently, it underwent a renovation. Students call it “Hotel Jewitt.” The bathrooms in Joss also underwent a reservation, and now they look like the bathrooms in a movie theater, only with showers. Lathrop is widely considered a “druggy” or “party” dorm. If you have a pot dealer, he or she probably lives in Lathrop. Cushing is sometimes called a frat this year, because of an unequal distribution of the genders. It’s farthest from the quad but has the biggest rooms by far. Strong is the only all-female space on campus. Because of that, it is the cleanest dorm (residents are always bragging about their bathrooms). Also, many substance-free women choose to live in Strong. Four to five upperclassmen live in the Terrace Apartments (a short walk across a pretty bridge to the center of campus), the Town Houses (which are located across the street from the main campus), and the South Commons (which border the campus). These students share one nice-sized bathroom and have to buy their own furniture. Those who crave a radically different college living experience can apply to the modern-looking Ferry House. Twenty students live in this self-governed co-op and don’t have to pay board fees. They buy their own food, shop together, and rotate chores. Most students who choose this community are vegans and very politically radical.

Few sports teams have large turnouts at their games, but women’s rugby is one of the most respected teams at Vassar. The teams compete in the Division III category. Participation in intramural and club sports is popular here, and the college even has a gender-neutral baseball team. The state-of-the-art gym by the Terrace Apartments is always a popular place to be, even on a Friday before the official start of the weekend. Vassar is not known for its athletics, but we do have sports teams that compete regularly. Our most popular (and successful) teams are our Women's Rugby, Ultimate Frisbee, and Swim teams. While Vassar doesn’t have many sports rivals, I would say that it is in constant competition with other small, academically rigorous liberal arts colleges in the New England and New York areas: Wesleyan, Skidmore, Sarah Lawrence, Mount Holyoke, Colby, etc. There is also an unacknowledged animosity towards Ivy League schools, which many Vassar students are still upset at being rejected from--mainly Columbia and Brown. More conservative schools like Yale and Harvard are mocked for their snobbishness.” Rugby is by far and away the largest sports team on campus. It's also one of the best. Women’s rugby is going to the championship this year and has won numerous championships in the past. Vassar doesn't exactly have a “rival” school, especially when it comes to sports. There's no equivalent to the big Harvard/Yale game, or anything like that (although there was the big “Middlebury/Vassar Quidditch game a few weeks ago, but that hardly counts).