That was far, far more enjoyable than the stench from the slaughter house adjacent to the toll plaza for the Goethals Bridge.
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I attended UC Davis many years ago. My dorm was next to the dairy barns and about half a mile (usually downwind) of the Hunts factory. A truly enticing mixture of manure and stewing tomatoes. 
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And my daughter wants to look at St. Joe’s again. I know I was in trouble when she asked how much the Temple deposit was. I think she is rethinking just how large Temple is and likes how St. Joes has multiple avenues for the Marketing major. I suppose she will have to get over the traditional residence hall if she changes her mind. So we are going to their accepted students day on Sunday.
I keep reminding myself it’s better to change her mind now than 6 weeks into a semester somewhere.
Anyone remember those Calgon commercials? Seriously - serenity now!
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Similarly, Earlham.
There’s a (IIRC) pet food factory nearby. Some years ago when C17 and C19 (as the trailing sibling) toured it, the smell was strong (ETA: and unpleasant) according to C19 and me, but C17 wasn’t bothered by it at all.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m college faculty or if it hit everyone the same way, but I legitimately cackled aloud upon reading this.
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My wife attended AC and has many good friends from her time there, over 30 years ago. She got a fully paid PhD at a top grad school afterwards.
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I wonder what they were doing when you were there. It just smelled like baking bread when we were there and actually went in the plus column. Did it really smell like Tacoma (tree pulp)?
Yes!! They’re all VP’s of “I don’t remember/know what they do.”
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On the positive side, the sweet cookie aromas from the Stella d’Oro factory just off the Deegan in Yonkers was always a treat.
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No pun intended…
Now you’re talkin! (Also, my child eyes always lit up seeing the Carvel Inn sign).
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My dad would tell stories of driving home past the State Line Potato Chip company, and how you could smell potato chips the whole way. I used to think that would be the best smell ever emanating from a factory, but I’ve changed my mind - coffee wins for sure! (Unlike the paper mill that was not far from my college campus… and if the wind was just right would send awful smells our way).
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McCormick spices used to make cinnamon every other Wednesday in Baltimore and it always smelled great. Other days Baltimore didn’t smell so great.
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I posted our full review on the “Colleges Crossed off” post, but the tl:dr is that my D25 loved St. Olaf. Her two current top choices from the schools we have seen are as different as night and day, though: St. Olaf and University of Arizona (both schools that got on our radar specifically through CC!) Both have theater and physics and are good feeders for her interests (physics/medicine), so in their own ways, both are matches for her - just from opposite sides of the size spectrum.
She immediately could see herself at either place. She didn’t like UW-Madison, Macalester or Lawrence nearly as much.
It seems the thread linking her two favorites is their campuses and vibe. She (despite her previous expectation) has decided that campuses closed to cars - i.e. not crisscrossed with roads, is very important to her. And somewhere that feels like you have the space and ability to feel calm and away from the hustle and bustle of the city. So quick question for this wise group - what is the easiest way to tell if a campus is more protected / enclosed? Virtual tours only seem to highlight the pretty and enclosed parts of campus, and it is hard to tell what the actual feeling is without being there.
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My kid did a lot of google maps / google street view / google earth.
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I wish they came with ambient sound!
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and maybe smells too 
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I grew up in university towns & spent a decade in Champaign-Urbana as a kid growing up. Playing rec soccer you could smell the Kraft factory pumping out I don’t know what products…a nice mix with the farming manure if you happened to be on the “wrong” side of town 
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Google Maps! They make it very easy to tell the difference at a glance between walking paths, small service roads, regular streets, major streets, highways . . . . [Edit: dang, too slow–I was actually re-looking at a bunch of maps fondly.]
Pretty sure that is known in the biz as “The CC Exacta”.
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Throw in Tulsa, and you have the Trifecta. 
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