Tonight I had the chance to go to a college fair with my daughter. I was very excited about this, I love fairs. All the games and rides, cotton candy, corn dogs, pie eating contests, awards for best chicken and largest pumpkin.
Boy, was I disappointed. This is not a fair by any stretch of imagination. It's just a big room with about 100 tables for a bunch of colleges. You walk in, fill out cards, chat with the admissions reps, and then move onto the next table. Not my idea of fun, but who knows what with the kids these days.
But accepting this so-called fair for what it is, here are my impressions.
This smoothest move I've seen is the kid with a page of stickers with all of his personal information on them. He's cruising through at probably triple the speed of anybody else because card-filling-out-speed is key..
A surprising number of the college reps are pregnant. I was also curious if the rep from Syracuse University was hired because he had orangey red hair.
The loneliest people seem to be from Texas Chrtistian University. I wonder how many kids from this area go to TCU. Busiest was NYU.
These things have very little redeeming social importance. It just allows the kids to have checked off in their admissions file: "Attended College Fair and expressed interest."
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