Coe College

It is so refreshing to finally know, 95% sure, where I want to go for college. After a long Friday and a brief Saturday in honor of scholarship weekend, I spent time in classes, with teachers and with students at Coe College. I've determined that I want to go there and I have the sweatshirt to prove it.


The teachers were great. They were all really friendly and tuned in with students (and visitors, like me). They were charismatic and entertaining on the whole. I met probably 10 faculty members and there was one 1 that was so-so. That's pretty good chances of having good professors most of the time. I interviewed with the history department and it was the second time in as many days I'd sat down and chatted with the same two fellows. It was really relaxed and enjoyable; I wasn't nervous at all.


I visited the writing center, intent on finding out what was involved in a writing minor/creative writing minor. And instead, I talked about a writing minor for about 5 minutes with a professor of professional writing and rhetoric. The rest of the time we talked about Coe and it's advantages, what I like to do in and out of school and various other topics until I really, really had to go to my next departmental open house.


The students were really nice too. Their dorms, not so great. But they were engaged and interested. Many of them offered help and advice about Coe and were interested in where I was from, what I wanted to study, what activities I was interested in continuing and what I was doing in school now. Most of the other prospective students were people I could see myself going to school with. (Don't worry, I don't have a roomie picked out... yet.) I loved the community atmosphere that the campus offered and it is just the right size. I wanted a small school... then a big school... and now I've settled on a school of 1300 people and I don't think it's a bad decision at all. It's in town and close to home; I'm thrilled that it has everything I want and I be home in 10 minutes.


Now that I know where I want to go next year... I'm really, really excited for college. I'm excited to try out cross country again to work on speed instead of distance. I'm excited to meet new people in a new place. I'm excited to be on my own but not too far away from home. I'm excited for new learning experiences and chances to learn more about myself, my capabilities and things I may love that I've never been exposed to before. A small liberal arts college in my city is just want I've been looking for.