Washington+State





Hi my name is Alexander Sperry this is my trip to the University of Washington State as I journey through three major cities which are Chicago,Minneapolis, and Bismark. I might just ask my mom and dad to drive me through a few other cities along the way.

Have you ever been in a car for 42 hours with some pit stops and maybe a few hotels? I do it too but as soon as you leave your house and you are on your way to a high ranking college, do you have to put up with your older obnoxious brothers? I also have to deal with a mom and sister that every time we pass a mall they beg my dad to turn into the parking lot. The only way I survive is a air freshener and a game boy. If you could last a day with them you would get a award. We pull out of my drive way and start to leave.

"Err! I wake up from a slumber on the floor of the car while everyone else toke the seat space. I asked dad "What happened!" in a really grouchy tone. He said there was a squirrel in the road. I could just imagine the screaming squirrel off of the Gieco commercial.

Then my family and I hit our first stop Millennium Park in Chicago. I thought it was magnificent. They had this huge titanium building that looked like a huge auditorium and we went touring around the park. Then we ran into something that looked like a flying orb! invaders from the dwarf planetI thought but really it was just a huge reflective orbe and you can find many other things to do at Chicago. But I won't spoil it. After that we moved on to Minneapolis Minnesota where on behalf of my mom and sister we visited the Mall of America. There was just way too much to see. My brothers and I rode some rides, checked out some girls and played video games while my mom and sister shopped. We traveled further west through North Dakota and visited Teddy Roosevelt State Park. Here we were able to see some breathtaking scenerey and even got to see a buffalo. It was a whole other day of travel before we even entered the state of Washington. When we finally got there we were exhausted. Washington State University has four campuses located in Pullman, Spokane, the Tri-Cities and Vancouver. But their main campus is in Pullman. WSU is a dynamic center of higher education, research, and culture nestled among the beautiful rolling hills of southeastern Washington. The Pullman campus with its 620 acres lies in the heart of the Palouse, a geographic area covering some 10,000 square miles of northwestern Idaho and southeastern Washington. I found out this University opened its doors in 1892 originally as the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science with 13 collegiate and 46 preparatory students. But over the next 100 years it has become a nationally recognized research university with over 17,000 students on its main campus and over24,000 students worldwide.There are more than 200 fields of study in the areas of science and Technology, liberal and performing arts, heatlh and human services with Over 150 majors, 70 master's degree programs and 44 doctoral degree programs. The first places we visited were some of the academic buildings including the Holland Library, Compton Union Building, and the high-tech Smith Center for under-graduate education. Then we decided to check out some student life activity by visiting the Glenn Terrell Friendship Mall. This is located at the heart of campus and is the gathering place where culture, ideas, and lively dialogue—vital aspects of the college experience—are exchanged daily. Here you're in the center of things. Students come and go from a variety of locations,They gather on the Todd Hall plaza to talk, relax, and study on the benches that line the mall, and eat at tree-shaded tables outside the CUB. This is where we ended up eating lunch. What is really cool is that you can also catch live music on the Mall. Rock, rap, reggae, folk, funk, world music, chamber music, you name it, you can hear it or even play it—student musicans frequently test out their chops here. The whole campus comes together on Terrell Mall. Since we were right there we decided to check out Todd Hall to see what dorm life was like. The rooms were as I had expected but seemed real fun. Of the 13 residence halls, we visited one more called Abelson Hall. It was pretty similar to Todd Hall ecxcept it was quieter. If you want to be in the center of everything then Todd Hall is the place to be. But I don't think you will get much peace and quiet for study time here. After that we decided to check out WSU's sports complex's. First I went to see where the 4th seeded Cougars played their games at Friel court at Beasley Coliseum. Then we checked out Clarence D Martin Stadium where their football team play. that was pretty cool. I t was huge. Then we checked out Bailey Brayton field and watched the Cougars beat Gonzaga 9-8. It was a great time.

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