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Touring Pennsylvania Colleges with ESHS

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As I alluded to in my last post , I once again had the opportunity to chaperone the annual student council trip to visit different colleges in the northeast. This year, the students wanted to visit Penn State University and the University of Scranton  (where my sister is currently a junior), so that is exactly the two colleges we went to go see.  In front of the Old Main building at PSU After leaving before the crack of dawn on Thursday, we arrived at Penn State at around 10:00am, giving us plenty of time to visit the bookstore and eat lunch before our campus tour at noon. Having spent a few days at Florida State University , I was expecting Penn State to feel more like a city than a college, but I was (admit-tingly) very surprised at how Penn State managed to have a small-school vibe.  The East Side High School Student Council at Penn State University  Thursday night was one of my favorite moments of the trip. After teaching students how to play some card games, I expl