<p>Is Trinity University respectable or is it a safety which everyone avoids?</p>
<p>^^^
From my knowledge, Trinity is a well respected school and the campus is quite nice. I think of it as mainly a liberal arts school, but there is an Engr Science program as well as some sciences. I know several people who went thru the graduate Healthcare Administration program and speak highly of it.</p>
<p>FWIW - last years US News listing had it as the top school in the west among schools that only offer bachelor and masters degrees.</p>
<p>My cousin’s S graduated last year and got a job as an internal auditor in a firm that is training him for management. He is from SC, but his job has him based in Nashville, and he has travelled many different places for 2 week stays - Akron, Cleveland, Venezuela so far. Everywhere he goes, he checks out restaurants, museums, sports events, etc. He is taking great advantage of his opportunities. I admire him for this. I have to admit, at his age I probably would have spent my evenings sitting alone in my hotel feeling sorry for myself - I wasn’t adventurous enough to go out on my own.</p>
<p>I notice how this once very active forum has died now that we’re into the summer.</p>
<p>Could it be that it’s 100 degrees down here in New Orleans? And it’s only June!</p>
<p>Beware, those of you who considering Southern schools. </p>
<p>Right now, Milwaukee is where we want to be!</p>
<p>But Montegut-</p>
<p>The students are rarely at their southern schools in June/July. The smart ones come south for the academic year and then head back to cooler temps for the summer, eh?
And didn’t Denver have a snowstorm a few weeks ago? No wait-- they had tornados. It was Oregon, Montana and North Dakota that had snow in June. Odd weather all around.</p>
<p>It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity!</p>
<p>Seriously. There are parts of the South that get hotter than anyplace up North, but it’s not so bad because the humidity is relatively low. I’ll take 100 in the Ozarks over 90 near the Great Lakes any day. The Mississippi Delta, on the other hand, is utterly miserable in the Summer.</p>
<p>Yeah, right now we are approaching our high humidity season, 25% humidity. And it has yet to hit 100 yet. ;)</p>
<p>That reminds me: I love what they call the “monsoon season” in the desert. Those heavy rains that evaporate before they hit the ground! I saw that once from a distance, and it was one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>Montegut- last weekend it was 90 in Duluth, MN- for my marathon. Today is 50 and cloudy. Weather happens.</p>
<p>Whenever my parents come up from Texas to visit us anytime during the summer, it gets HOT. They are coming on July 14, so I’ve told all my friends they should plan on beach weather during that time! We don’t have AC, because we never need it except when my parents are here, lol. It’s gotten to be a family joke. We haven’t hit 80 degrees since May 22!</p>
<p>ML, can I stow away in their bag?</p>
<p>^^^ Yes! Or just come up, anyway! We love having visitors.</p>
<p>When we moved to Houston last year (after many years overseas), DH moaned and groaned about me insisting on a pool. </p>
<p>Now…who is in there more than anyone???</p>
<p>Just take a WILD guess!!! :))</p>
<p>Toured Clemson yesterday in the 95 degree humidity. D still loved it. Even without kids there, you can see how PR rated Clemson’s students as the happiest in the nation.</p>
<p>mantori.suzuki, they are called 50% chance of rain rains. True, they only make it halfway down. :)</p>
<p>Lafalum84, We know lots of Clemson grads. They all loved it and bleed orange…extemely school loyal bunch. Clemson is not even in the hottest part of SC,lol.
That honor usually goes to Columbia,S.C., home of USC.</p>
<p>So, speaking as a southern kid ( I’ve lived solely in FL and NC), I did not realize that people up north had so many reservations about moving to or visiting the South!</p>
<p>I can say though, there are a whole lot of Northern transplants moving to my city and they seem to like it just fine. </p>
<p>I’m going to college in New York state this fall, so I’m in the opposite situation of many here!</p>
<p>I had to laugh at this thread. We live about 5 miles from Furman University. My DS is dying to get out of the South for some of the reasons mentioned. His perspective is southern colleges are:</p>
<p>-heavily Greek
-Very conservative
- very religious
- not very ‘cool’ to be an intellectual</p>
<p>Now, some of his perspectives are dead-on, some are not. I have lived here for 20 years (originally from DC) and attended USC and Clemson. It IS very politically conservative and very religious. But there are ‘southern’ schools and then there are schools that are in the south. Emory, for example, while in the south, draws a huge number of students from the North. So people from here are often surprised about how ‘un-southern’ it seems to them . Furman, on the other hand, is a quintessential southern school. Ultra conservative and religious.</p>
<p>That said, people are very nice here and if you are not very religious or conservative and it doesn’t bother you that you may be in the minority, it’s a great place to live.</p>
<p>A few Southern schools that come to mind as NOT fitting the conservative, anti-intellectual mold are Tulane, Rice, and Hendrix.</p>
<p>D looked at 2 southern schools, all women. Gorgeous campuses, nice people. However, unfortunately, both had a large % of the student body who went home every weekend or close to it. She would not have had a car and this for her was an issue. Both also had populations that were nearly 100% from instate. She turned down significant $ at both b/c she felt that although she would be welcomed, she would also be the “girl from way up north”. She also wanted a more urban environment. She ended up in DC. The funniest thing was, though, even in DC, the look on people’s faces including adults when she told them we often get 24 inches of snow at a time. The horror was visible. Explaining just what we did with all that snow got old, though. I think if she had looked at larger schools it might have been a different story. She did like a lot of what the south offered (like no snow).</p>