Roaming and Touring

Today I am grateful for safe travels, what we saw and learned about three different universities over the course of three days, and healthy legs to carry us over miles of tours and meetings.

I am even more appreciative now of Sam’s future direction and the fact that he knows what he would like to study and then pursue as a career. He has really known for years, and it just keeps coming into clearer focus. That brings much relief and assurance to his parents. I respect and am impressed by Sam's level of interest and his goals.

Because of his career certainty, and because we had the time to travel now, it made a lot of sense for us to go before his junior year. We are glad we did. Sam would like to study agronomy and have a hands-on, outdoor job in that field. We toured three highly reputable schools in neighboring states--Iowa State, Kansas State, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

We roamed many miles, both highway and the streets, sidewalks, and buildings of college campuses. Some we did on our own, self-directed. But we fully appreciated every tour and meeting we had as well. Very informative and helpful.

It was fun to listen to an engaging and passionate professor and see this table top in a classroom at UNL:


The farm kids in Darcy and I made a comeback as we saw things like this, heard about cutting edge research, and saw the working farm fields students and instructors use. 

Though there is time to consider options and do further research, and maybe a second visit, these three days of roaming and touring were well worth it. 

Thank you to all who helped us at each of the three schools. College campuses are lively and interesting places, even in the summer. 

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