The Grand College Tour: Day 5

Well, I'm impressed with Georgetown. I like the location. I like the connections (Justice Scalia randomly walked by while we were touring the school), and even the class I sat in on (a Properties class) wasn't too boring. I like the amenities (especially the new fitness center right on campus). I just don't like the price, and the financial aid office did nothing to help except reassure me that eventually everybody finds enough loans. That's not what I wanted to hear. Mom actually drove me to the school around noon, because I was running too late for the train, and it wasn't too bad of a drive into DC. Although it would have been much worse to find a place to park. She apparently got lost again on the way out of DC, but not too bad, once she realized the streets were all parallel. First I had a class. Then a tour. It was a rather large tour group—biggest of the year, they said. Probably because of the reception tonight. It was a good tour. The other people on the tour were pretty down to earth as well, which is good. The funniest part of the tour was when the guide started to let his political opinions slip out in incidental comments and it became pretty clear that he expected all of us shared his same leanings. Which is exactly the sort of thing I'm used to in Utah, except his leanings were to the left. He then explained that Georgetown was a very diverse place because it had some very right-wing professors as well, and he had been surprised to find a couple of people in his study group had actually voted for Bush. I found all this very amusing—I'm so used to being to the left of everyone in Utah. It'll be refreshing to be to the right of people for a change. I had a little bit of dinner after the tour, and ate with a girl and her mom that were touring from Virginia. They had the same impression of Georgetown I had. I then walked over to the reception—a few blocks away. I'm a little mixed on whether or not I'll enjoy walking through a big city every day. Lots of interesting people, but perhaps too many. The reception was okay—about 25 or so potential students, plus faculty, relatives, alumni (who worked for the law firm where we had the reception) and some current students. I met a few interesting people who were touring as well, including a guy from Colorado and a girl from NYU. I also met a current student who did his undergraduate work at UT, but came here because he liked the social life better. Anyway, I also I don't think he did much to help me out either way, though. I think one of the guys there was hitting on me, as well. That was just a little weird, especially since my name tag claimed I was from Utah. There was free alcohol of course, but I was surprised by the number of people who, like me, weren't drinking. I can't tell if they were concerned by impressions or what. There was ton of good food, so I really shouldn't have eaten before. I also talked to one of the deans about space law of all things. Georgetown won a space law competition recently, and apparently it has very practical applications. So maybe I should read up more about that, because that sounds fun. Anyway, I left the reception after an hour or so and took the subway back to Vienna. But mom was very late picking me up, and it was kind of cold outside (in April—sigh, Texas would be warmer). Then I came home and played Civ with Bryan all night (even though he has school in the morning).

Posted April 14, 2004 (11:29 PM) | Comments (1)