<p>From a current Female Missouri Science and Technology Student:</p>
<p>Is the rolla airport really an airport, or do students fly to St. Louis and then drive the two hours?
Mostly students fly to St. Louis and then drive to Rolla. I have never heard of anyone flying into the Rolla airport. A lot of students will carpool back and forth from the St. Louis airport during breaks.</p>
<p>% of women with cars?
I think a large percentage of all students have cars. However, Rolla is a small community and you can walk to most places that you need to go. There are always students willing to carpool. I brought my car with me when I was a new student at Rolla and I use it maybe once every other day just as a convenience. It was convenient for me to have my car here so I could drive home when I wanted.</p>
<p>Do Engineering women live in the residential colleges or is that more for the liberal arts women. Or is major irrelevant.
Major is irrelevant in the dormitories. The Residential Colleges (RC) are the newest dormitories and are very nice. I lived in the RC when I first moved to campus. The RC has suite style rooms, which means that two bedrooms are connected by a common foyer and share a divided bathroom. The divided bathroom has a sink and a shower in one room and a toilet and a sink in the other. Thomas Jefferson Hall and the Quad both have community style living, so there is a common bathroom used by the entire floor.
I had a fantastic experience living in the RC my first year on campus. There were always activities going on outside on the lawn or in our floor’s living room. The suite style rooms also provided a nice escape if I had a big test or final to study for.
When living in the RC, you take a 1/2 hour development course. I participated in the Women As Global Leaders course as a freshman and through this course I met a lot of the other women who lived in the RC. This course centered around leadership development for women. Through this course, I even had the opportunity to travel to Guatemala for a service project. This RC course also gave me an opportunity to meet other Missouri S&T students that provided me with a good support group as a new collegiate student.</p>
<p>The following link has information about a lock-in that the Missouri S&T chapter of the Society of Women Engineers hosts each semester for high school juniors and seniors.
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I attended two of these lock-ins before I came to Missouri S&T and they provided me a good introduction to the different types of engineering available on campus. The lock-ins also gave me the opportunity to experience campus life and to decide if Missouri S&T would be a good fit for me. I would highly recommend that she attend one of these lock-ins if she gets the chance.
Another opportunity that SWE members from Missouri S&T help with is a program called “Girl Meets Missouri S&T”. This program is for women who have applied and been accepted into Missouri S&T, but who have not registered for a PRO day (where she would sign up for classes, etc.). In this program, each woman student would get matched with a current woman student on campus to spend two days with. The link for this program is as follows:
[Missouri</a> University of Science and Technology, Women in Science and Engineering](<a href=“Missouri University of Science and Technology - Server Error! (File 404)”>Missouri University of Science and Technology - Server Error! (File 404))</p>