Saints Alive!

On a very raining Saturday morning, Owen, Allen and I headed to St. Mary's City, MD for Accepted Seahawks Day. While Owen is still waiting to hear from several schools (including favorites Grinnell and Colorado College and Allen's alma mater, William & Mary), of the colleges he's been accepted to already, St. Mary's College (a small, public liberal arts honor college in southern Maryland) is at the top of the list. And despite the gloomy weather (and a very odd play list for the schools premier vocal group, Ping, which included Welcome to New York and Shake It Off), Owen had a great visit.

After the intro session, we forced Owen to talk to the Econ Department. Afterwards, he independently had some really good conversations with faculty and students from the Political Science, Public Policy and History Departments. We checked out the climbing gym after which Owen talked extensively to some members of the climbing club about student setting, ratings and local climbing outings. We toured dorms, the docks, the fine arts hall and the baseball fields. We had lunch at the Niche Rated #1 Best College Food in Maryland Dining Hall. And we had break out session for the parents and students, so we could find out all the logistics of St. Mary's while Owen heard about the challenges of choosing a good roommate.

By the end of a long the day, the sun had come out and Owen seemed really happy and comfortable with the school. And while Allen may have confused a lot of people by sharing an Instagram post which suggested Owen had already made his choice, he's still waiting and mulling things over (we promise there will be a blog post once he decides). 

But at least he has some good options to mull.

(To see all the St. Mary's pictures, click here.)