The Lifelong Learner :: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are -Roosevelt ::

I like college towns. There is something about them that interests me. It must be the young people — plenty of them — looking to learn. Or it must be the “education” smell. I’m not sure. I just like college towns.

State College is the home of Penn State. It has a nice, lively downtown adjacent to the college. It is filled with young people. Beatiful girls. It feels rich. It feels safe. It’s very clean.

What more can you ask?

My college experience was different. I went to NJIT. It’s a technical school. We had 80% of guys (or even more). Not too many nice girls. College guys like to have fun. We tried. After visiting Penn State, I wished I had gone there. It would have been a lot of fun.

All students seemed to be proud of Penn State. You can feel it. It’s great.

We went to Providence, RH, home of Brown university, last year. It has a different feeling. It seems smaller. It also seems that people study a lot more at Brown. Really, everybody was studying there. At Penn, it seemed that people were just enjoying themselves.

In any case, State College is a nice place. Worth visiting for a day or two. Plenty of food choices, a lot of hotels. You can walk around the university — it’s huuuuge. Well worth a second visit for my wife and I.