We’re Going to Keep Looking.
While Dylan was finalizing his college decision, Shane and I got started on our college search.
Yes, it’s too soon. No, I don’t care.
For Shane, since he doesn’t require the amount of “inspiration” that Dylan required, we started at the end of 9th grade – and we invited Shane’s friend along, to make it more of a vacation and less of a hard-core search.
Still, we started with Princeton. We (briefly) saw Rutgers, then drove up through Connecticut and Rhode Island, stopping at a bunch of schools – including Brown and Yale. Shane’s favorite was Fairfield University.
Shane is not headed for the Ivy League. He could, certainly, go that direction, if he so desired. But he has no interest in those schools. After one quick trip, I know that what Shane seeks is a small, quiet school – preferably with therapy dogs roaming around campus.
I think the dogs put him right over the edge at Fairfield.
We’re going to keep looking, of course, since I love to travel with Shane. It will be a different kind of search, and one that will be every bit as enjoyable as my trips with Dylan.
Shane has been saying that he wants to work on film – which means he’ll need to do something other than the “film program” that doesn’t actually exist at his school. We’ve already got some options on that end.
Unfortunately, there are only a handful of colleges with good film programs on this side of the country – a couple in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and a handful in upstate New York.
The good news: I already had a trip planned for upstate New York, but Dylan and I never took that trip. So it’s ready for Shane!
And the other good news is, Shane isn’t 100% married to the idea of working only in film. During this first excursion, he latched onto another major that he thinks he might enjoy: business and economics.
And that opens up a whole new world for Shane.