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1)To gain a broad perspective relative to the different types of colleges, campuses, and programs, provide the name and a brief description of the following:

A public college: Highline: The school we go to! They offer up to a bachelor's degree in computer sciences, and are well known throughout the USA (or so I'm told)

A private college: Digipen A digital college! They offer a computer science class, with a focus on game programming. They offer online instruction programs.

Southern Oregon University: A small college, in Southern Oregon... not much information was to be gleaned from the guy we talked to.

A traditional large university: University of Washington Seattle: a LOT of students, with most of their classes having 50+ students.

A small alternative college: Evergreen State College, a strange college where you choose to major in one thing, and are required to take 2-3 other "disciplines", that tie into your major's classes.

2) Select a college major that you might be interesting in pursuing. Find three colleges that are known to offer quality programs in that major. You may choose only one of the three colleges from within the stat of Washington. Briefly describe what impressed you about each of these colleges. Then finally, describe how your overall educational experience might differ if you were to choosed one college over the others. In making your comparisons, be sure to consider some [of] the issues raised in the "suggested questions' above.

Southern Oregon University: I was impressed with the tiny class sizes. If I were to go here, I would not be able to live at home, or even near home, so much of my early college experience would be spent meeting new people and learning the lay of the land.

University of Washington, Tacoma: I was very impressed by the knowledge their person I talked to at their boothe displayed. I could live at home, or near home, if I went here, and since the class sizes are fairly small, I would be able to get a good amount of help from the professors (hopefully).

University of Advanced Technology: I liked their presentation at the college fair. If I went here, I would most likely be led by the ear into computer programming, and and further pressured to take classes in game programming. They offer online classes, so I could spend a lot of time not at school.

3) Attend at least one of the workshops during your time at the Fair. Briefly describe the content of the workshop and evaluate the information received.

This workshop was about financial aid help for those who are going to college. There was a lot of information presented, but it was presented so poorly that much of it was lost on me.

4)Write a personal evaluation of your experience of attending the National College Fair. Share whatever thoughts you have, but be sure to include a discussion of the following:
- What information was the most useful?
- What questions are still unanswered?
- What should now e included in the next phase of your educational and career planning process?

My first thought when I walked into the convention hall was one of amazed horror at the idea of choosing from all of the colleges available. I quickly found out that it was useful to know what colleges you wanted to look at first, and to look at the map for where to find them. I still don't know where to go on most web-sites to find accurate tuition costs. I should start emailing the school heads of attendance, as well as the heads of the computer science departments to find out the requirements for their classes. I also need to make sure that I can afford to take these classes.