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Roadtrip to Oral Roberts University Enroute to ORU we decided to take a detour along I-94 and check out what Chicago has to offer. There I went to the Museum off Science and Indusrtry and got a look at many new and old innovations man has made throughout history. After several hours here, my parents took me to Shedd's Aquarium. This place was cool. I got to see all forms of sea life in both fresh and saltwater environments. I also enjoyed a dolphin show where I volunteered to help out the trainers during the show. It was getting late, so we dined at the Rain Forest Cafe before my dad took my brothers and I to check out what the ESPN Zone had to offer while my mom took my sister to the Amercian Girl store. By now it was getting dark, so we made plans to spend the night in Chicago and continue our trip the next day.

After waking up and checking out of our room we traveled down US 6 enroute to St. Louis, Missouri toward the Gateway to the West. My parents thought it would be a good experience for us to ride to the top of the Gateway Arche in St Louis. This ended up pretty exciting towering up 630 feet overlooking the Mississippi. You could see everthing around the city. I couldn't believe how wide the Mississippi river was. We dined at DB's before heading south on I -55. We picked up I -44 heading west to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Home of ORU. Finally, we are getting somewhere.

We rolled into Tulsa early that afternoon. So, before checking out Mr Roberts school, we thought we'd see what the city has to offer. We decided to check out Tulsa's famous zoo that houses over 1600 animals. Just our luck we were able to check out their tropical rain forest display featured only this month. I also got to see shark, penguina nd huge turtle feedings. After this long day we spent the night in a hotel after we grabbed something to eat at a local resturant.

The next morning we began our tour of ORU by visiting the Eagle Card Center to pick up our visitor cards. This card aloowed us to gain access to all the buildings and attractions of the school. It was here that I discovered that ORU is a Christain-based liberal arts college that is located on 263 acres in scenic south Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was founded by the famous evangelist Oral Roberts and the school offers 63 undergraduate majors, 14 master’s programs, and two doctoral degrees. While ORU’s largest major is pastoral Christian ministry, it also offers programs in mass media communications, business administration, psychology, biology, and nursing; the largest department is business.

On of the greatest things about this college is their current student-to-teacher ratio which is 14:1. While the male-to-female ratio is 43:57. I also learned that Golden Eagle athletes participate in eight NCAA Division I men’s and women’s varsity sports: baseball, basketball, golf, tennis, volleyball, track, cross-country, and soccer.

After getting on our rental bikes we headed straight for ORU's library. The library is located on the fourth and fifth floors of the John D. Messick Learning Resources Center. The library holdings include over half a million items, including books, journals, microforms, and audiovisuals. After that we went to check out some dorm rooms. We visited two of seven residence halls including Ellis Roberts and Gabrielle Halls. Thier dorm rooms were small and they had to share their bathrooms with other rooms but it was coolk. Students decorated them cool and it all seemed like one big happy family. After seeing what some of the dorms looked like we rode to the Hamill Student Center. On our way we passed the magnificent Mabee Center where the Eagles basketball team puts on a show. We stopped briefly to check out the inside.

Then we visited the 70,000 sq foot Hamill Student Center. Here we checked out the auditorium and grabbed something to eat in the cafeteria on the upper level. But if that doesn't suit you, then you can check out their upper level where you can dine at Chick Fil-A or get hooked up with a cup of Joe in the lower level at their very own internet cafe. After filling our bellies we headed out to ORU's J L Johnson stadium and caught the Golden Eagles batting it up against Missouri State. They unfortunately lost but it was still exciting. It was a perfect end to a very fun day visiting the college.

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