<p>Olin is awfully hard to get into. Sorry your S did not get in. Rejections always hurt, but I’m sure that come April, he’ll have other wonderful choices.</p>
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But it’s a dry heat. Like your oven. ;)</p>
<p>NMT is a cool place with great mailings. Absolutely one of the best bargains of the tech-y schools. Lots of kids move on to grad school and ultimately Phds. (I ride motorycles and leave Ruidoso for points west. I love the Gila Wilderness. It’s just about perfect.)</p>
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<p>WashDadJr spent two weeks backpacking in the Sange de Cristo mountains last summer and loved it. Socorro and Cimmaron aren’t the same climate, but close enough for a kid from Washington. He’s your basic lizard, so the desert thing is good for him, even though the high desert can get pretty chilly this time of year. I love the wide spaces of deserts and prairies, so I appreciate New Mexico. Even the forests in New Mexico are more open and inviting than the green hells of western Washington. </p>
<p>Again, thanks to everyone for the kind words.</p>
<p>One of my S’s best friends has his heart SO set on Olin… it sounds like such a great place, it’s just too bad they have so many applicants for so few spots. </p>
<p>Washdad, I’m so glad your son is feeling good about his backup plan. Remind him how much better the weather is in New Mexico than in Massachusetts. Bill Simmons of ESPN.com, a graduate of Holy Cross, is in Miami to cover the Superbowl. The other day he wrote, “Why didn’t anyone stop me when I decided to spend four years of my life attending an Irish-Catholic college in Massachusetts with 30-degree weather and 20-mph winds?”</p>
<p>curmudgeon:
sax was the one talking about the pool, but I agree completely. 
And it really IS a dry heat, very different from the sauna of the Mid-Atlantic states( I HATED sticky-hot Delaware summers) .</p>
<p>Olin who? </p>
<p>It will work out.</p>
<p>Hey WashDad, tell him to go down around Mogollon and that area. I have been all over the west and that treed mountainous area in the winter when the snow is on the ground is just gorgeous. Lots of hiking and outdoor activities based out of Silver City.</p>