A Day at Purdue

Dreams of University?

Since Kate will be going to

Purdue in the Fall we decided to

 drive out today to check things out.

Purdue is a land grant university

in the American Midwest, in

west central Indiana.  About 2

hours from Indianapolis and

2 hours from Chicago.

The man who offered to give

the $150,000 to start the

university had 3 stipulations:

1. It had to be named for him.

2. All the buildings had to be red brick.

3.  They could never offer a music major.

No music?  I had to ask why...

It was due to his strict religious

convictions, it would not be acceptable.

But they have one of the biggest marching

bands in the US, so go figure.

In typical Murphy's Law fashion,

we took a one and a half hour

walking tour of the campus on

a whippingly cold and snowy day.

We saw many beautiful old buildings.

Though this may say Memorial Gym

this is actually a building of classrooms

where many of Kate's Actuarial

Science courses will take place.

We had a nice drive and

enjoyed many of the

beautiful old houses.

We are still amazed by the

amount of open land out

here in the middle of the country

and by how big the sky is.

I love the old advertising

in the little country towns.

Can you imagine wanting

to eat at the Sanitary Lunch?