College Visits
June 6, 2025
"The Racehorse Who Waited" is a wonderful essay about the state of our society as always rushing, always running, looking for ways to be faster and quicker. Not so with a horse named Journalism at the Preakness Stakes. He was all about patience. As Mark Robichaux writes, "...we all remember the kids who seemed to have it all figured out at 17. But time has a way of revealing what matters. Some of us come from behind."
May 29, 2025
The University of Connecticut at Storrs is not just about Huskies basketball, although you can be sure that our tour included a visit to the storied Pauley Pavilion, where basketball history has long been made....Trinity's strong sports programs include men's squash and basketball, as the Batnams won their first NCAA Division III national champuionship in 2025.
October 14, 2024
I took three side trips to revisit three universities: Indiana University in Bloomington, Purdue University in West Lafayette and Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute. Each one is an hour from Indy, an easy car ride.
June 21, 2021
There’s the library, an iconic structure on the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) campus. There’s the statue of Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat outside on the library plaza. There’s the sculpture of a […]
October 29, 2020
When a college or university reviews your application, it is looking at “fit,” that is, whether you are a good match for the college. The first place colleges consider is your high school record: where you go to […]
October 14, 2020
As a junior embarking on the college search process, it may seem daunting to do a college search without an in-person visit. But it does not have to be. I usually tell my juniors to do their research […]
May 1, 2020
Now that colleges have cancelled information sessions and tours, what students learn about colleges virtually has become more important than in the past. Each person will have his or her individual list of preferences and areas of importance, […]
March 27, 2020
It was a few blogs ago that I wrote about somehow visiting colleges on grey and rainy days, and my visit to Emory was no exception. It was pouring in Atlanta and Covington. Covington? Yes. Emory has a […]
March 21, 2020
There’s a new campus recreation center at Georgia Tech, replacing the one I saw years ago. Georgia Tech was the site of the swimming and diving events for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Since then, a new rec center […]
February 18, 2020
Sometimes it seems as though I see more colleges and universities on grey days – or rainy days – or cold days. That was the case in January in Florida where the temperature in Central Florida dipped into […]