Visiting Texas A&M Unviersity, College Station
I ran over one-night trip to Texas A&M Unviersity (TAMU) in College Station, TX. TAMU can be the most possible school to me in East Texas, which delivers Systems Engineering degree with a reasonable program. It's because I've been coming to prefer going to go to a grad school somewhere in Texas, especially as close as possible to Dallas (where significant something is :) ). So this time I just wanted to make sure how "urban" College Station is, and see if I can spend 2 years from this year.
Someone said there's nothing in College Station, and I found they could be right in terms of play spots other than bars, but College Station is still ok to me. We hang out in the area called North Gate, next to the campus. Though I assume 99% of people in the bars/on the street were students esp. most of them were undergraduate, but it was ok to me. Looked like a little 6th street in Austin without adult. In Arlington Texas where I am now, I have never gone out here and always gone to Dallas, and essentially I don't need to go out that much. So, as long as this nice weather in Texas is there, I can hopefully live and focus on studies. Although this time I didn't even try to meet faculty again from the last time I've visited schools in California, it's fine because visiting a school itself gets me motivated more than doing nothing.
Btw, A&M's fact book in 2005 (available here) taught me following:
- Among all 44,000 students,
-- 88% are TX residents
-- 8% are international
-- 75% are white
-- Overall acceptance rate was higher than 70% (U.S. News says 37% for Engineering Graduate)
-- 37 Japanese (0.00084%, 1 out of 1,200 students)
- Among 4,670 grad students,
-- 2,700 are Texas residents
-- 1,310 are international
I was thinking that my current school (UT-Arlington) is typically for local residents (& industry) since 90 % of overall students are Texan and 70% are from Dallas-FortWorth area. But now I found TAMU isn't different. I don't mind how less Japanese are there, but I do care the number of international students. The more international students are, the more friends I might be able to make. That's something I deducted after I came to U.S, about the relationship between people from abroad and American, could be false, could be true.
Someone said there's nothing in College Station, and I found they could be right in terms of play spots other than bars, but College Station is still ok to me. We hang out in the area called North Gate, next to the campus. Though I assume 99% of people in the bars/on the street were students esp. most of them were undergraduate, but it was ok to me. Looked like a little 6th street in Austin without adult. In Arlington Texas where I am now, I have never gone out here and always gone to Dallas, and essentially I don't need to go out that much. So, as long as this nice weather in Texas is there, I can hopefully live and focus on studies. Although this time I didn't even try to meet faculty again from the last time I've visited schools in California, it's fine because visiting a school itself gets me motivated more than doing nothing.
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| One of the students' residences. Each room might have only one, thin-rectangular shaped window. |
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| Inside of the building of College of Engineering. There might have been defense for grad students on this day. They were practicing speech all around the building. |
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| ROCK SHRIMP SOBA NOODLE BOWL at Cafe Eccell, College Station, Tx. I asked a Japanese researcher working in Economics dept. to have lunch together, then he took us this cafe. Though Japanese Soba noodle is used, it isn't Japanese food at all and it's more like Mexican. Tasted good, regardless. Moreover. I forgot to take any picture, but Strawberry Tart was fantastic!! |
Btw, A&M's fact book in 2005 (available here) taught me following:
- Among all 44,000 students,
-- 88% are TX residents
-- 8% are international
-- 75% are white
-- Overall acceptance rate was higher than 70% (U.S. News says 37% for Engineering Graduate)
-- 37 Japanese (0.00084%, 1 out of 1,200 students)
- Among 4,670 grad students,
-- 2,700 are Texas residents
-- 1,310 are international
I was thinking that my current school (UT-Arlington) is typically for local residents (& industry) since 90 % of overall students are Texan and 70% are from Dallas-FortWorth area. But now I found TAMU isn't different. I don't mind how less Japanese are there, but I do care the number of international students. The more international students are, the more friends I might be able to make. That's something I deducted after I came to U.S, about the relationship between people from abroad and American, could be false, could be true.
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