After starting off our morning with the ever so healthy Dunkin Donuts, my mom and I got on the L and headed to DePaul for a campus tour. Words can not even explain how in love I am with this college! I thought Columbia was cool but DePaul feels so sooo right for me. The campus is pretty contained in Lincoln Park and they also have a small campus in the Loop. The theatre conservatory is a very tough program to get into but you can bet your eight layers I will be spending the next year and a half working my butt off. I plan to go back later this week with my mom so we can walk around some more and maybe check out the bookstore. I also got a free shirt from filling out a survey after the tour. I want to write more about the whole school but I don't even know where to begin. It's so amazing and feels like the perfect fit for me. It was such an amazing place that even if I don't get in the theatre school I would consider going there and majoring in something else (if any of you know me that pretty much shows how much I love it there).
After our tour we headed out to Schaumburg (a suburb) to go to Woodfield Mall - a favorite of my mother and me. We ate lunch at P.F. Changs and then shopped a ton. Everything we bought was a great deal and pretty well justified and we didn't buy too much (in our view - my dad may have a different opinion). Now we're back at the apartment and plan on watching a movie before going to sleep.
M&M
I second Grace's impression of DePaul. I was blown away. We knew their theatre program is considered one of the better ones but the university as a whole was amazing. There were so many fabulous things about it. We will definitely plan a more involved visit sometime in the next year to learn more. I would love to go to school there. It is by far in the top of the schools I have visited with either of my children.
As for our trip to the suburbs, it made me appreciate that Grace and I aren't commuting in daily like we did last year. Being three blocks away and having easy access to the L is so much better than our hour and half (ten miles) bumper to bumper drive we did daily last year. There is a large Chicago Art Festival two blocks from our apartment here this weekend so I am giving thanks that we were able to find a parking place when we got back. That made me happier than you can know!
Yes and,
Grace
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