You're in Joe Paterno's House Now

Now here is a real man's (and woman's) college.  They have got it all (except for apparently, sunshine -- check out my photos below!): big-time sports; friendly people; a REAL college town; big Greek system; perfect transit system; huge, beautiful campus; the biggest football stadium in the country and best of all, The Creamery, the on-campus ice cream parlor.  Penn State has a Food Science major, and they developed this ice cream that Ben & Jerry tried to emulate (they took the class here) -- well, The Creamery is better!  Everything in The Creamery (cream cheese, mustard, ice cream, milk, cheese -- any diary product) goes from cow (out back) to store and off shelf in four days max  -- now that's fresh!  Anyway, we had THE funniest tour guides you have ever seen!  If you get a chance, come to Penn State for the tour alone -- it's worth the price of admission (free! Plus they give you complimentary lunch in the cafeteria!)  The fraternity houses are really nice -- way nicer than a lot of sorority houses!  Oh, and I forgot to mention that there are no sorority houses in Pennsylvania (at least so far of what I have seen.)  Apparently, according to an old law on the books, a house with more than seven women living in it is considered a BROTHEL (!) so all sororities are housed in dorms with each floor designated for that sorority.  Everyone we talked to who goes here LOVES it -- and we talked to some who have graduated and THEY loved it.  We met some DARLING girls who work at The Nittany Lion Inn the night before we were to go on our tour and they gave us a lot of scoop.  They're both seniors and they are SO SAD to be leaving Penn State (AKA Happy Valley.)  What does that tell you?  We've invited them to stay with us in Newport and I think they're gonna take us up on it!  Always makin' friends….  When we were on the tour they waved at Austin and came up and talked to him, so he felt pretty cool! According to the school, Penn State has the largest alumni group in the country, so that's gotta count for something.  Soooo, Austin's take on the school?  Definitely wants to apply there, thought it was one of the greatest schools he's seen, and he actually likes the crazy weather!  And he would love to go there -- someone yelled, "We are!"  as the tour was going by, and Austin yelled, "Penn State!"  He's already got the bug!  Out of a 5.0, Austin rated this a 4.6.

Tomorrow we will be at Bucknell...hopefully I'll have internet to share it with you!