Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, was an interesting place. They told us that the Princeton Review rated the theater department (Devin’s intended major) as 16th in the country. And the facilities were amazing–nicest theater I’ve seen at any college I’ve visited.

The coaches were terrific, too. They have a new head coach who seems dedicated not only to a winning ball club but also to the overall success of the players off the field, which I like a lot.

Devin has received $4,000 per year in scholarship money for Cornell so far, but that’s a far cry from the total price tag there.

The most unique thing about this school is their one-at-a-time class schedule. They run nine 3-1/2 week blocks per year, meeting every day from 9 to 11 a.m. during that time frame (and 1-3 p.m. for labs, rehearsals, etc.). An especially cool offshoot of that is that some of those blocks are taught off campus (geology credit earned in Ecuador; history course taken in Greece; theater class in New York City). If Devin does play football in college, he’d likely never be able to do an entire semester abroad or at sea. But he could easily choose a 3-1/2 week block during the off-season to do something like that. Sounds like tons of fun to me!