|
Quaker school in my area goes only through 8th grade. : )
Politically Howard is liberal. Some students would like it be be more activist as it had in the past, but this is 2009, not 1969.
The school held voter registration drives in the area (DC, Virginia, Maryland). The kid got involved with that. She wandered over to Amnesty International to get involved with that. She volunteered for the inaguaration. She will be involved with the alternative spring break to work on a literacy project in a large city.
I'll ask her about how birth control is handled via health services (and listen to her fuss at me)
The visit. The dorm she is in, is nice. It's a newer dorm. Classrooms we saw were...classrooms. Landscaping was fine. Buildings were clean. We saw groundskeeping people doing their thing. I guess my perspective is , a college campus is a college campus. They are all so generic to me. Mich State is more expansive than U-Mich, which is more green than Northeastern, which is more high-rise than Howard, which is more compact than Michigan State... Well actually Northeastern was ugly, but I digress.
While waiting to go to a reception, I found a restroom in an administration bldg. It was unusable. I'd like to think that because it was a Sunday and school hadn't officially started that there was only a skeleton maintenance crew.
I don't know what the kid was ultimately looking for in a college. The best I figure is she found "it" once she visited all the schools. Northeastern was her primary choice, until she saw Howard and spent time there. After that, even Mich State, nor U-Mich could sway her. And I could not have predicted that the visits would have meant that much.
All I can do is forward your questions and concerns to my kid and get her take on them.
|