My first blog post, I'll try to keep it short and sweet.
Monday and Tuesday (September 17 & 18) were days off from school (Rosh Hashanah, Jewish new year). No school? Yes! I get to sleep in, play my PS3, watch some TV, basically chill. Nah, not about that life. What better way to spend a couple days off from school than by taking college tours! Monday I went to Dickinson College, and today I went to Lafayette College. Oh, by the way, I'm a Philadelphia Futures student, we do college tours all the time, I can't even count how many I've been on. But anyway, both colleges were pretty good, although I preferred Lafayette. Dickinson has a great study abroad program, and has a lot of languages. At Dickinson, I actually had the opportunity to sit in on a computer science class, and that was a really good experience. Lafayette is good for engineering, and is very high tech, and it has a LOT of study lounges, like everywhere. Both are small, liberal arts colleges. If I don't get into any of the colleges I really want to go to, Lafayette actually wouldn't be a bad consolation. But one thing I highly disliked about both schools was the diversity, or lack thereof. Dickinson is 77% White, 5% African-American, 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian American, and 6% International. Lafayette is pretty much the same. These numbers can't compare to Stanford, MIT, and Harvard. But, Dickinson and Lafayette are good schools nonetheless, just really homogeneous.
