{"id":139,"date":"2014-04-25T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2014-04-25T19:04:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T19:04:29","slug":"and-the-decision-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/and-the-decision-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the decision is&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had our second admitted student day last week at Knox college. \u00a0Beautiful campus &#8211; small to the eyes of this Big Ten girl, but full of trees, green areas, and old, history-infused buildings. \u00a0 Stand out moments:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We toured campus and saw the spot where one of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place, as well as a chair that Lincoln (and more recently Obama) sat in &#8211; available for prospective students to sit in as well. \u00a0 \u00a0Very cool piece of history in that.<\/li>\n<li>The library at Knox is my personal idea of heaven. \u00a0Large comfortable furniture, wooden paneling and built in bookcases and glass fronted cabinets. \u00a0Enough modern conveniences to be useful. \u00a0And a special collection of rare books including Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway and F.Scott Fitzgerald. \u00a0I want to know if they need a professor of entrepreneurism.<\/li>\n<li>The students are quirky. \u00a0In a good way, but clearly, marching to the beat of your own drum is not only accepted but encouraged here. \u00a0Clothing styles from early American hippie to modern punk, buttoned-up preppie to relaxed casual &#8211; we saw it all, and not in clumps but rather mix and matched.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We were impressed with much of what we heard and saw. \u00a0So, we were down to decision time. \u00a0Drake or Knox? \u00a0Really&#8230;.no bad choice here. \u00a0We felt comfortable with the quality of education and life at either school.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While there seems to be somewhat less of a focus on internships at Knox than at Drake, there is a very high focus on interaction between Professors and students.<\/li>\n<li>Drake is larger, Knox is closer.<\/li>\n<li>Drake is blue, Knox is purple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Final choice &#8211; Knox. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Just felt right.<\/p>\n<p>Good as any other reason when weighing two equal options.<\/p>\n<p>Smiles.<\/p>\n<p>Lise<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our second admitted student day last week at Knox college. \u00a0Beautiful campus &#8211; small to the eyes of this Big Ten girl, but full of trees, green areas, and old, history-infused buildings. \u00a0 Stand out moments: We toured campus and saw the spot where one of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}