If you’re a prospective student in the Iowa area, you may have been to a seminar near your home town where a bunch of admission councilors came and talked about things like applying for housing, financial aid and a new program called On Iowa (oniowa.uiowa.edu). There would have also been a student panel answering questions about student life and rudely making noise in the back of the room during the other parts of the presentation.

If that sounded really awesome and you never attended one, I’m sorry because I just got back from helping with the last one. I know, I should have warned you all ahead of time. “Warning: Once-in-a-life-time opportunity: ask your own questions of the one and only Dillan N, world-famous student blogger for the University of Iowa.” Once again, sorry.

Anyway, I just wanted to thank the university for the awesome time I had. This trip was an opportunity available to anyone in the organization STAR (Students To Assist Recruitment.) [I know, “to” shouldn’t have been capitalized, but it probably shouldn’t be in the acronym either. I guess no one would want to join it if they called it SAR.] Back to my more sane train of thought: STAR is open to anyone who would like to apply. On top of these trips, we also help on Hawkeye Visit Days [HVDs in the buiz], serving on panels or assisting tour guides; and with other events for prospective students. I’ve enjoyed my involvement so far, and this trip added a lot to that enjoyment.