Davis and I are on the same adventures that Sam and I took 2 years ago. This time I feel like I could almost do the tours myself. Auburn has a great school of Engineering, and they probably have the most impressive school with its own student center just for engineering. We stopped first in the student center for the college where they had a pretty amazing gaming center, and a cool area to highlight Aubie. Davis has also been here for a few days with Engineering days in high school. So he was able to show me all the student center highlights.
At the Engineering center, we found that we were the only ones on the tour on this day, so instead of a full room we had with Sam, it was the admissions person and two students for just me and Davis. But all went well, we were able to ask a few more questions, then left to go on our tour of the mechanical and industrial engineering buildings. Davis is considering industrial, because they have a "Path to the Plains" option through Southern Union community college. But I am pretty sure after we saw some of the hands on mechanical labs, then the process efficiency labs for industrial, Davis was leaning more towards mechanical by the end of this tour.
After our tour, we met up with a scout friend Luke Wilson that had just started his Freshman year here. He met us at Mama Goldbergs, which was pretty empty in the parking lot, then once inside, we realized we arrived right after an Australian high school baseball team. Crikey! I did not expect a line like that, but we had some time to blow, and Davis got to catch up with Luke. There is nothing like "Momma's Love" and "Momma's Nachos". Luke invited us back to his dormroom, and we got to get a tour of the rooms there. So our tour of Auburn went really well. At this point the scholarship at Auburn is $0, so not making it much of an option, but there is the Southern Union route, so we left Auburn and travelled the 20 minutes over to that campus.
Apparently Southern Union is the bisons, and we did get a good tour of this really nice community college. But I am sure Davis would admit, it was difficult considering this as an option, when you went into their student center, and the gaming area was an old arcade Gallaga game. But we got a good tour, really good technical school classrooms. We also got to speak more in detail with the lady that runs the "Path to the Plains" program. I think Davis could get a full scholarship here, but I did not get the feeling that this was on his top choices. It is always fun on these tours, get to spend some time with Davis, and visit some great colleges. We keep joking that we are just looking for the 36 to magically happen on the ACT...or that magical letter arrives like Sam's. Until then, we are starting the applications now, and we will see what happens.
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