So on Thursday night my mom and I drove out to Chicago. It's really a wonderful city. The hotel was beyond shmancy! There were all sorts of gorgeous ballrooms and the lobby was very modern and swanky. We were on the 17th floor and had a great view of the John Hancock Building from our room.
On Friday morning, we took the L up to Loyola. As far as public transportation goes, the L is quite excellent. It's very clean and well-maintained, plus you get a great view of the city. Loyola was a nice school, and I think I'm going to apply there. I didn't like it as much as DePaul, but I could still see myself enjoying the school a lot. The weather on Friday was absolutely horrible. It was snowing/hailing on and off throughout the day, windy, and miserably cold. It made it a lot more difficult to do the tour of Loyola's Lakeshore campus. Their Water Tower campus was pretty nice as well, but once my mom and I got to our tour of DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media, it became irrelevant.
Oh. My. GOODNESS THE CDM COLLEGE WAS FLAWLESS!!!! There was all sorts of amazing equipment and technology. It reminded me a lot of the New York Film Academy. They had a library for renting out cameras, a stop-motion animation lab, two normal animation labs, a few small theaters for screening movies, a soundstage, a sound designing recording studio full of things for making your own sounds, several editing labs, and more. Plus, they have a partnership with one of the largest studios outside of LA and have an even bigger soundstage there! Seeing all of that really moved it up to my first choice after that. It'd be a phenomenal opportunity for me!
Last night my mom and I drove home, and I'm already looking forward to heading back to Chicago.
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