Third Saturday

My legs are tired!  Today I walked around the North/Main campus of NCSU.  I'm glad I wore my nature shoes and not my sandals.  I went to the campus today because I wanted to find a professor there that my advisor worked with.  I came close, I found the building his office is in.  I actually want to talk to him, because we appear to have similar research interests.  Whether or not I'll be courageous enough to say words if I ever meet him is another story.  After finding the building, I went to the library.  And shoot, it is midnight.  I had started this earlier and forgot about it.  Whatever, I'll go on.  I have mixed feelings about the NCSU campus.  The campus is gorgeous, a lot of green space, flowers, places to sit, some art pieces, all the buildings look new or very well maintained.  But, it feels isolated.  My school is right in the city of Scranton.  There are non-campus buildings and people every where.  It does feel like you're on a campus, but it also feels like you're in a city at the same time.  It is a nice feeling that you can go to places other than the campus.  NCSU's campus is not like that.  They're not in the city of Raleigh itself, but just outside it.  Sure, there are local businesses and such, but really where it is all campus.  I don't think I'd like it that much, I don't like to feel like I'm "trapped" on campus.  At the same time though, I kind of wish I got accepted.  They have so many science buildings their, I would die of happiness.  Seeing all the science buildings made me wonder if I made a good choice with Scranton, but ultimately I think I did.  I will definitely be checking out State for grad school though, one of their libraries has an ice cream store in it!  And blablabla faculty with my interests, things that matter, etc.