Mansfield University

Well a couple weeks ago my son, Two, moved away to college. He is a freshman at Mansfield University, which is located in the north central part of Pennsylvania, in where else but, Mansfield!

It's a four and a half hour drive if there wasn't any construction, over five and half with construction. That is an important fact we did not know when we had to be there by a specific time for "move in day".

He is going to major in Education and Mathematics so he can be a math teacher, at least those are his plans now. Things could change between now and the four years to graduation.

As a freshmen at Mansfield University, you are required to live on campus. When we visited the campus before he started, he had decided he wanted to stay in the dorm that was the furthest from the class rooms, and the one required an uphill walk to get to class. He felt that it would help to wake him up in the morning on the way to class. So on the 21st of August, we had two car loads of stuff to haul to his dorm room in the Cedarcrest Manor.

Before he left he told me he didn't plan to come back home until the holiday break. When he moved in he said he would be back in the mid-semester break at the beginning of October. After his first week, he showed up unexpectedly at my front door early Saturday morning for the Labor day weekend.

Mansfield is a state college, but a small campus, with under 4,000 students total, which means that it's more personal. The professors and staff get to know the students as people instead of numbers. The area the college in is beautiful and remote and if it wasn't for the length of the drive, I would visit more often.

Here' a welcome message from the college president to perspective students:

Please join me in wishing him good luck, good grades, and that he doesn't forget to have a little fun too!