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Our family lives in the Bay Area and our son will be a high school senior next year. Our family has spent the last two weeks visiting schools our son is interested in attending. We visited the local Catholic colleges and universities first, USF, St. Mary's, Santa Clara, and Dominican. We spent this past weekend and the first two days this week visiting Portland and Gonzaga. We just returned from Spokane this afternoon.
We didn't realize it when we made our plans, but we saved the best for last.
Everything about our two days in Spokane was incredible. The campus was spectacular and our interaction with the students and faculty we met could not have been more positive. We had a great tour of campus with a student guide. After the tour, we encountered one of the Jesuits. The good father took time out of his day to talk to us and show us some of his favorite parts of campus. We were especially impressed with the new electrical engineering building and facilities. As our son is considering a career in engineering, he was in hog heaven. We also got to check out the living facilities in Kennedy Hall and were most impressed. The student apartments there are the nicest, most modern living environment we have seen at any of the schools we've visited. Our son was a bit disappointed when he heard that they're for upperclassmen, but his disappointed quickly vanished when he saw and heard about the new dorm for freshman that will be opening soon.
Our son plays football, but is considering taking up rowing. Our tour of the athletic facilities was an eye-opener, especially the training facility for rowers. The student recreation and fitness center is first class, far better than any of the others we've seen this summer. We were able to watch some of the basketball camp and my son pointed out some of the Zag players he recognized to his mother and me. One of them was John Stockton's son. He looks a lot like his dad.
We spent part of yesterday rafting on the Spokane River and visited a winery downtown where we talked with one of the owners. He told us that he went to Gonzaga and was at all the home basketball games.
Well, our visit ended with junior telling us that Gonzaga was his first choice. It's mine and his mother's, too. He is going to apply for early action, so we'll be saying our prayers until the acceptances come out.
We didn't realize it when we made our plans, but we saved the best for last.
Everything about our two days in Spokane was incredible. The campus was spectacular and our interaction with the students and faculty we met could not have been more positive. We had a great tour of campus with a student guide. After the tour, we encountered one of the Jesuits. The good father took time out of his day to talk to us and show us some of his favorite parts of campus. We were especially impressed with the new electrical engineering building and facilities. As our son is considering a career in engineering, he was in hog heaven. We also got to check out the living facilities in Kennedy Hall and were most impressed. The student apartments there are the nicest, most modern living environment we have seen at any of the schools we've visited. Our son was a bit disappointed when he heard that they're for upperclassmen, but his disappointed quickly vanished when he saw and heard about the new dorm for freshman that will be opening soon.
Our son plays football, but is considering taking up rowing. Our tour of the athletic facilities was an eye-opener, especially the training facility for rowers. The student recreation and fitness center is first class, far better than any of the others we've seen this summer. We were able to watch some of the basketball camp and my son pointed out some of the Zag players he recognized to his mother and me. One of them was John Stockton's son. He looks a lot like his dad.
We spent part of yesterday rafting on the Spokane River and visited a winery downtown where we talked with one of the owners. He told us that he went to Gonzaga and was at all the home basketball games.
Well, our visit ended with junior telling us that Gonzaga was his first choice. It's mine and his mother's, too. He is going to apply for early action, so we'll be saying our prayers until the acceptances come out.
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