Home of the Seminoles!

Today we visited FSU--Florida State University, home of the Seminoles in Tallahassee.  At the end of the tour, they made the prospective students all do an ax chop--Anneliese was embarrassed (because of the racism) and made a half-hearted movement with her hand, she was funny.  The campus is beautiful, all brick buildings--both old and new.  The dorms are both "suite style", which is two bedrooms sharing a bathroom in between them, and "community style,"  which means traditional dorm style with the common bathroom for 30 women to share.  The buildings are nice.  We found that for Film Making, there are about 500 applicants each year, and they only admit 15.  Yikes!  Very competetive.  This is the only "typical" university/college we are visiting.  Anneliese doesn't like the sports teams, but would love to be in marching band.  I told her that if she's in marching band, she will have to go to the football games, and even if she isn't, she would still have to go go at least one football game, just to say that she went.  It's a huge stadium with buildings as the outside walls.  Including the film school.  

Annelisese in front of the Seminoles statue

One of the dining halls--based on the dining hall at Cambridge (in England) which was the basis for the dining hall in the Harry Potter movies.  Beautiful room!

Buildings on campus

Pretty fountain on campus

Fountain and archway saying Florida State University just before it started to rain.  (They took us back to the beginning of the tour in campus link buses.

Well, we're done with college tours!  (Unless she decides she wants to visit USC in California).  We drove through Northwestern Florida, then through Alabama and Mississippi, and into Louisiana to New Orleans after our tour ended at 3:00.  We are currently (at 10:30), waiting for the pizza we ordered to arrive.

Two full days to spend here in New Orleans, then we head home.  Looking forward to sleeping in!