Sunday, November 14, 2004

College hunting

I don't know if I consider searching for colleges that have meteorology as one of their majors as all that difficult. That's the major my son would like to try at least. He's loved weather phenomenon all his life. We took a drive up to Millersville University which is about 64 miles away, an hour or so. It's a lovely campus in Lancaster County, PA. We were late, not unusual for us. We headed into the gym and thought we had missed the tour and the guides told us that the meteorology one hadn't left yet. Talk about lucking out. We heard the tail end of the college overview. Sean saw his friend Jeff from school (whose mom is our primary doctor) and he was glad to have someone to talk to that he knew. They took us to a lecture room and the prof laid everything on the table. Meteorology isn't just weather predicting, it's Physics and Calculus too! Sean was getting discouraged as he hasn't taken those classes in high school. They took us to the 4th floor where the computers are set up which is a nice lab. I asked a few of the tour guides who were also seniors majoring in meteorology if not having Physics and Calculus in high school was a problem. They basically shrugged the worry off. The one girl said she took easy classes in her senior year. Sean is still having his doubts and is even thinking about taking Geography instead. It's his decision of course. I wish he would at least give meterology a shot. I know he may regret it if he doesn't try it. I found the alumni page at Millersville and many of the meteorology majors have decent jobs.
The campus is pretty with it's 100 yr old buildings mixed with it's modern buildings. The lounge looks like a mall restaurant. They have a pond with two swans. I noticed that the lovely trees next to the pond have carvings on it with secret messages from the past. We had lunch in the cafeteria and the food was good too. I hope he decides to go here.

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