UNI Campus Tour

Dear hubby and I took vacation days on Good Friday to go with our daughter on a campus tour at UNI (University of Northern Iowa). This is the second campus tour sweet daughter has attended. She decided on visiting UNI because she is thinking of teaching but still very undecided and it is far enough away from home to feel like she is away at school. She has several other universities and colleges to visit in Iowa before she decides where to attend. She may decide to stay at home for the first year and attend Kirkwood to save some money and determine what she really wants to major in before determining where to get her bachelors degree from. I've realized that living with a teenager you need to go with the flow and live in the moment so I am trying really hard to just see how everything plays out. This very hard for someone like me who really likes having everything under control and planned.

The rec center at UNI was really nice. This is where we started our tour. The water slide and climbing wall caught my eye.

The UNI-dome was hosting a wrestling tournament, I wasn't sure if we would get dear husband to attend the rest of the tour when we saw what was going on as he loves sports!

This is right outside the art building. They have a rotating sculpture garden showing students art work. Very peaceful place to study.

There was a big difference between UNI and Upper Iowa (of course), the tour was much larger and not nearly as many gifts.


We toured classrooms, attended a talk by the college sweet daughter is interested in, toured a dorm room and ended the tour with a lunch in the dinning rooms.

I love this picture. It shows so well that sweet daughter is very excited about college and dear hubby is not quite sure about his daughter growing up, paying tuition, his daughter growing up..... well the picture speaks a thousand words!

We were caught in a terrible rain on the way to our car and we were soaked to the bone. Besides that it was a great day and we were all very impressed with UNI. The pro and cons list has started!