College Visits Part Two: University of Puget Sound

So I mean it’s a great school. Friendly people, good food (you all know how important that is to me), good radio station, beautiful campus, nice professors and all of that, but I just wasn’t feeling it. Not sure why I’m just not feeling connected, there. I could definitely work there though and I’m even pretty excited about some of the things they offer there but... There really is no spark to make me feel like I should go there. I kept waiting for something mroe to push me over the edge from my uncertainty. I mean like I said it has everything I like in a school and find important but... I don’t know why I am hesitating. Okay there are a few things I don’t like, tile floors in the dorm rooms, small computer labs, but as you can see none of them are deal breakers. I sort of feel alternately that it’s JUST like mills, and that it is just a little picturesque “college” typical experience. I mean I can totally see where I would fit in if I went there, hang out in the cellar all the time, constantly listening to the radio station, work with alumni relations, maybe rush a sorority, if not live in one of the theme houses, graduate with some sort of English degree/Communications minor. It’s so odd. I think the Mills feel just came from having stayed in an all girls dorm (the only one on campus) and having the big event of the night being Gossip Girl in the basement. I mean that was totally fun and everything BUT it just reminded me so much of Mills. I know that it is different from Mills overall and in so many ways it is so radically different, but it’s hard because I did just get that overwhelming feeling.

So my visit went something like, get picked up by the prospy from willamette, get lost like twelve times on the way to UPS get dropped off say goodbye to prospy and then go to dinner blah blah (my host was pretty chill cool friends I enjoyed hanging out with them) went to watch gossip girl, hung out in her room while she did some homework, went to one of the co-ed dorms to hang out with her guy friends, back to the room and to bed. Next morning was breakfast, tour (the tour guide didn’t know like anything, and she barely talked to me she only talked to the other student really) this literature class with a really interesting professor, and my interview which I think went pretty smashing overall. Then grabbed a pizza from the cellar and went to the taxi to take to the cab (prospy was in school oh god... He was like an underage coked out kid and I made out with him... You know what we won’t think about that) and the movie on the ride back to portland is WALLE! But... I don’t have my headphones... So sad.... Left them with kirin... :(

Anyways heading back down to Portland gonna hang out with my aunt and uncle tomorrow/tonight. Going to Lewis and Clark on Thursday and we’ll see how it goes from there.

PS guys input on these schools is SO welcome and SO needed