Mike & T at MS&T

While Indy & I were heading home from our college trip, Mike & T headed the opposite direction towards Missouri Science & Tech University. They really liked this college's engineering program. It is one of the first universities to hit my radar last year when I started a preliminary search for Taryn. A couple weekends ago, I was scoping around an online college fair and picked up some admissions pointers for students considering majoring in engineering. Amongst them was to attend a pre-college summer program or to be involved in local design teams and/or science fairs. I'm not aware of any of the latter around here, so I went looking for some summer programs. Lo and behold, MS&T has...get this, brace yourselves, EXPLOSIVES CAMP!!! Ah, I wish you could have seen T's eyes light up when she realized what the camp was about! Finally something for the girl who wants to "blow things up"! Taryn has finished her essay on "Why I want to blow things up" which they actually call "Why I am interested in a career on the Application of Explosives" and we will be sending in her application tonight - the deadline is Wednesday. We hope she makes it in (and returns home with all her fingers and her hearing). Check it out: http://precollege.mst.edu/explosives.html While I was jumping up and down in excitement anticipating T's excitement, I also found out there was a spring open house that upcoming Friday and so we enrolled Mike & T to attend. I was really glad I saw it all when I did. MS&T is in the top 3 now of Taryn's list. Here are some photos of their cold & gloomy spring break trip:

The student center

Taryn walking toward the residence hall (I think)

hard to say, she's too cold to tell

The back of ONE wing of the new residence hall

The busy street intersection in the middle of campus

The underground tunnel so students don't have

to cross the busy street to get to the residence hall

Each floor of the residence hall has a similar

computer room with over 40 computers available 24/7

Freezing on the way to somewhere

One of the older buildings on campus

Would've called it a scenic shot but the grass

is hurtin' for certain right about now

hopefully it will grow in when the flood waters recede

Speaking of high waters....

Here comes the Mighty Mississippi!!!

Yep, a cold & rainy day on both sides of Ol Miss

We were glad we all had safe travels considering the storms we went through!