WSU or UW?

Today was the big day. Today was the day my group turned in the completion report. We worked on it all weekend to get caught up. I am not sure how we will do, but it should be okay. The teacher today talked about résumé’s. We have to work on one for our next assignment.

After class I went to my office and got some boxes. I delivered them to Pat to send off. They have parts from the jobs we have done. Then I went back to Colfax to work on changing someone's computer out with a new one. Today the user had a problem. Her files for QuickBooks were missing. They were gone from the machine. So I looked for an undelete program. I found one at another department in the county. I started to run it, but I could tell it would take a while. It has been. It is not done at five o'clock. I give up for the day and plan on coming back tomorrow.

I finish off my day in IS and then I go to the fire station for training. Because I don't have a doctor's note I cannot go on calls yet. I could not train either. So I stood around in the cold watching the whole time.

I went home cooked up some dinner and headed off to bed.

I went this message to someone today who is choosing between U-Dub and Wazzu.

The choice of UW versus WSU will be a tough one, but attending WSU for many, many, many years I think I have some positive input.

First off this choice is about you and your future. It is only going to be four to five years of your life. It *WILL* go by quickly.

There are several things to look at.

First off, in what field would you like to major? Look at the program in that major that is offered by WSU and UW. See what it takes to get accepted into the program. Just because you get into the University does not mean you will get accepted into your chosen major. At WSU, for instance, the people trying to get in the pharmacy program work their butts off. Many of them don’t make it, and they have good grades, but competition is very tough.

See what the major requires. Maybe one school standards are higher than you think you can achieve. Also, look at the comparisons. Among others, WSU is known to have a good communications program. If you want to major in communications choose to attend WSU. UW has its strengths in different fields.

The bottom line, however, is that you only get out of an education what you put into it. If you don’t study and don’t do homework then you will not get much out of it. The university at that point does not mean anything. Once you have a piece of paper that says you have a BA or BS you would be hard pressed for an employer to discount you because it was from one university over the other.

My brother got a BS in Computer Science at WSU. He is making hard-core bank. It not because of the school, it is because that man can code in his sleep. He knows his stuff. He studied and took advantage of his opportunity.

Your first priority is getting a college education. Getting a degree in a field you would like to work the rest of your life. Everything else must come after that.

Your friends are important. You need to be happy. If you have a lot of friends at WSU or UW you should be happy. I can say that I have a handful of friends that went to WSU from my high school. I never hung out with them because I made new friends from my residence hall. The city you live in is also important. You want to have fun on the weekends and some week nights. What city has the things that you want to do? There is a lot to do in both cities. Sports? Cougar Football is exciting. WSU intramural program is vast and very good.

If I had to do it all over again, what would I choose? I would take WSU. You will find that is true among Cougars. Once a Coug, always a Coug.