Stillwater!

So the plan was to take my first college visit to K-State this Monday but unfortunately they weren't having visits on Monday and informed us that we needed to give them 7-14 days advance for a visit. We then proceeded to see if Oklahoma State (my other college option) would let me come take a visit on such short notice, no problem, we got an entire days worth of tours and advisement meetings set up and were set to go!

As I walk upstairs like a zombie with my eyes halfway closed ready to go, my father informed me that it wouldn't look good to wear sweats to a college visit, so I angrily went back downstairs and changed into some jeans. I continue on after eating a bowl of cereal (captain crunch) and then get into the infinite. 2 hours later I wake up in Stillwater and become the navigator of our car-not sure why we have a GPS?

We eventually find our parking garage and walk to the Alumni Center to check in. After about a 30 min wait because as usual we are EARLY, precious minutes I could have been sleeping, but anyway we get a little introduction spiel by some guy from Undergraduate Admissions and a corny video. Following this we go on a tour of the campus, which was by far the nicest campus I've ever seen granted I've only been on about 4. Our guide, a student, should probably not give tours for a living, he definitely did not like the cold as we went through about every building to warm up. The one thing out of this tour that stuck out at me was their Rec Center. It was like 4 stories, with anything you could think of from swimming pools, basketball courts, racquetball courts, running equipment, weights, ping pong table, and even a rock climbing wall. The best part of this is that coming here is free for students!

As we were walking through the Rec Center, who would have guessed we would run into Mr. Trent Turner, coming out of his dance class, damn PE majors. So we talked to him and we later met him for lunch with his roommate, Butch. I was very surprised to find all the dining options that are available for students, over 40 different places. I also was interested in the system they used to pay, the students have a card that works kind of like a debit card where a certain amount of money is put on the card and is just deducted when you pay for your meal. On a side note, I had some sort of chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, some noodle stuff, and a roll and later some ice cream of course and it was delicious!

So my next tour was the tour of the living facilities (dorms), we had two tour guides this time and these guys were awesome! We first went to the older dorms. They explained these dorms were where you would most likely meet more people and have more fun because you wouldn't be in your dorm all the time but you would be in your "floor entertainment room" with everyone else on your room doing just about anything. We then went to the nicer dorms (The Suites). They had their own living room and anywhere from 2-4 rooms and up to 2 bathrooms. They explained these dorms had the opposite benefits of the first dorms as a lot of people don't leave their dorms to meet new people. The last dorms we went to were the Village, I think these were my favorite because it was a great mix of the other two dorms as you did have your own room but all the people on your floor would be in your major so they could help you with any problems.

Our next trip was to the Journalism building to meet with a student advisor to talk to about their Sports Media program. Wow! I've never been that impressed about something in a long while! Our guide was not only hot but was also a Sports Media major, and had an internship with ESPN where she worked with "Baseball Tonight". She took me around and showed me all the equipment and technology which she said was tops in the nation in this program. She also told me that Oklahoma State is one of 3 schools in the U.S. with an actual "Sports Media" major. I then met a couple of professors and listened to them talk about what they teach, each one was very interesting. Our guide then explained a "Sports Media" club she joined in which she got to drive around Bobby Knight and make money for it. All of these things and many more that I haven't included are the reason Oklahoma State really impressed me and actually surprised me.

I still am not any closer to making a decision on where to go next year but I do have an idea of what type of questions to ask Kansas State when I visit them within the next couple of weeks, I hope to decide before baseball begins and hope its not as difficult to decide as I think its going to be?