Luther College Visit

I am going to take a quick break from my usual blog posts about music and movies and books to write about my visit that I took yesterday to Luther College.

I left my house, with my dad in tow, around 8:30 in the morning. It was a really nice day for a two hour drive. We were mostly on two-lane highways with 55 miles an hour speed limits. But the weather was perfect. It was nice and sunny and bright. The grass was green and I passed a propane truck after miles of slow-driving aggravation.

We got there at 10:40 and spent the next five minutes trying to figure out where would be the best place to park and then where to go from our selected parking lot. Eventually, we figured it out and then were on our way with our tour guide to sightsee around the campus.

It was a long hike around the campus, especially in the hillier bits. We went all through the Union building (where the food's at!) and their "wellness" facilities and some dorm buildings and some learning buildings and looked around basically all the campus, mostly. Everything was maintained really well and looked really nice. I dig/dug it.

After the tour, we were free to go get lunch in the cafeteria with little food card things they gave us. So my dad and I went to get food. The cafeteria only had a million choices. It was really good food too. Instead of the bland, plain, gross stuff they serve at our school cafeteria (which I decline to eat by bringing my own lunch).

After everyone ate, we went to an official "Welcome!" presentation in the Center for Life and Faith, which is a really pretty building. The told us all sorts of fun factoids about Luther and then sent us on our way to meet with various departments or to do a student-to-student conversation or go to a financial aid session. My dad and I went to the English department one together and then I went to the Education session while my dad went to learn about financial aid stuff (yet again).

After all the department sessions, you could go back to the Union, get free (COLD AND REFRESHING because it was hot outside) beverages and talk to the admissions counsellor who would be looking over your application, if you so chose to apply. So my dad and I did that for, like, five minutes. And then we left because we had to drive the whole two hours home. But first we drove all through most of Decorah. Which is a cute, small little quaint town. But it actually has a lot of stuff, at least more than I thought it would. And it's basically five minutes from the Luther campus (but then again, it is the closest town for, like, forever).

Overall, the visit was really fun and went really well. They ran everything really smoothly, with plenty of people there to help you get where you're going and feel really comfortable doing it. I had a really good time and I think that after my visit, Luther is definitely at the top of my "Colleges I Want To Go To" list.