We were up early today to get on the road to Green Bay. No not a Packers game, we were going to visit UW-Green Bay. This is our first visit to colleges, and I don't know exactly how excited Sarah is about it. She was acting rather ambivalent. Maybe it was just that she didn't want to go there with Kris and me.
But we had a pretty good tour. The campus is very nice, the buildings and classrooms are very modern. Even the dorms are more like apartments than your traditional dormitories. And everything is located no more than a 5-10 minute walk as long as you're on campus.
The guy who talked about the program Sarah wants to get into was really informative. He made it seem like he was really interested in making sure that the students succeed and that he (or any of the other professors/advisers) make sure that you are on the right track to get your degree finished and onto the field you want to work in in four years. The thing is that I think what Sarah wants to get into would take at a minimum a Masters degree. But if she could get out with a BS in four years that would be extremely helpful. Plus I think she could make some very good contacts that could help direct her.
But this is just the first college, but it did seem really nice. Plus there is a program that they started at UWGB for all incoming freshmen to slowly introduce them to college life that will give them a full, well-rounded college experience (yes, that's their "college-speak" for the program). What they also do, if I am understanding it correctly, is require a minor as well as a major. So that could be something interesting.
So the next places we have to go look at is UW-LaCrosse, and UW-Milwaukee. Madison also has the program she wants, but I'm not sure it's worth going there to check out. We'll also probably have to go back to UWGB. I think Sarah would like to see the classroom and biology labs where she'd be working. We didn't get to go through that building on our tour. But at least we have started the process.
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