It's been a few days since I've posted a blog. I've been consumed with so much college material that I've left all of my homework in my backpack since the beginning of the weekend and right now it's 9:23 on Sunday night and I have yet to touch it. On Friday at 3 o'clock after school I left with my dad for UVM. We arrived in Burlington at approximately 7 o'clock that night and went out for dinner at some Italian restaurant about a mile from the hotel. I got eggplant parmesan and it was alright. After that we went back to the hotel and I watched Discovery Project Earth for a full hour and fell asleep shortly after. As always, we ended up oversleeping through the next morning and still managed to make it to the college tour 25 minutes before it was scheduled to begin. It was pretty neat, they showed us a nice little DVD and Powerpoint presentation and it made UVM seem amazing. Well, it is. It is the greenest school I have visited so far and it has everything I'm looking for. The Environmental Science program is amazing and there are so many cool clubs such as their Outing Club. The tour of the campus itself was also good. It's scenic and very well kept and in a really outstanding location; only about a mile from downtown Burlington and about a mile from Lake Champlain as well. The community is very environmentally conscious; the buses are fueled by biodiesel and everyone recycles.
We drove for about 5 hours after through the White Mountains in New Hampshire and back to my dad's house in Cumberland. When we got home my dad went to bed but I decided to go for a 6 mile run. After that, we went out for sushi and called it a day.
Today we went to the College Fair at USM and I went around looking for schools with strong Environmental Science/Studies programs. Here's my list:
-Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon)
-Alaska Pacific University (Anchorage, Alaska)
-St. Lawrence University
-Union College
-Montana State University
-Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
-University of Notre Dame
-Lehigh University
-Dickinson College
-Lyndon State College
-Providence College
-Wheaton College
In October I will also be visiting Wake Forest, Elon and Virginia Tech. In a couple weeks I'll try to have a list of the schools that I will be applying to (6 or 7 schools). I'll be looking for schools that are environmentally friendly, have solid Environmental Science programs well located with good study abroad programs. Now I have to go do my homework and read "The Sonnet" and "The Essay" and finish King Lear...
1 comment:
Dude, UVM is sic, definitely apply, you'll probably get in, I did. I would definitely recommend UVM. I don't know who you are, but I assume you have Mr. Rosinski, cause you wrote on his blog. Anyway, have fun in AP lit, and hope to see you in Burlington next year. I am posting as anonymous, but my name is Colby Nixon, and I'm a freshman at UVM- you can ask Mr. Rosinski his opinion of me. Peace and good luck with the whole college process.
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