Big city or something more rural? Does it matter?

carachel2
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 21:35:15 +0000

My kid at Pitt is having an entirely different experience than I did at Texas A&M back in the day. I was never a partier and am not a huge football fan. So if you don’t do those things there isn’t a lot to do in College Station. I made do with seeing movies with friends or going out to dinner or just hanging out.

My daughter is a lot like me so she doesn’t really party and hasn’t caught a single football game at Pitt. She catches concerts, musicals, festivals frequently with friends. Her first weekend at Pitt she went museum hopping with a new friend. They can hop on a bus and go anywhere in the city. Sure sometimes they just hang out in the dorm and she does study a lot but she has so much else she can go do than I did. Frankly I’m jealous of all that she gets to do and it is very much a different experience.

She has an engineering co-op with a major engineering firm in town and many of her friends have signed on with companies in Pittsburgh as well.