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I visited the University of Tennessee of Chattanooga from Tuesday to Friday of last week. I was visiting for my freshman orientation (which is rather early) as because I will be attending the university next year. I have decided to major in environmental engineering and will minor in business management. I sincerely enjoyed many aspects of the campus. The location was perfect as far as the part of the country of which it lies. Chattanooga is surrounded in an outdoor Mecca. However, the city of Chattanooga while many would considered the city small from my perspective the city is a little on the large side, but nothing that I can’t deal with. The classes are good. I am truly excited about starting studying to become an engineer. My favorite part about the whole university is the outdoor club. I cannot wait to start school for the outdoor club as the primary reason. The outdoor club is a club that is extremely active in outdoor activities from whitewater kayaking (my favorite) to skydiving to backpacking to rock climbing to camping and others. While all I will want to do while at school is kayak the Ocoee River 24/7. However, I do also extremely love backpacking but it just not in the same league as kayaking. The campus itself is aesthetically pleasing as far as I am concerned. It is an outdoor campus with extremely old buildings and big trees with the backdrop scenery as the Appalachian Mountains. While attending the university I will be employed by the universities outdoor program teaching beginner kayaking classes teaching students to roll a kayak. I will also be employed as a slow pitch softball umpire for the campus’s intramural sports. I am unbelievably excited to start school in the fall. I am so excited that until school starts in the fall everything is going to be as exciting as watching paint dry. I do not know how I will remain entertained until I can get out of Texas and into Tennessee. My excitement may be overkill though. There is an extremely slight possibility that with all my excitement I may be disappointed it what life will actually be like. However, I severely doubt that I am wrong in my presumptions of extreme enjoyment. Outside of maintaining a 3.7 GPA I really want to be running class 5 rivers within a year and a half. I also have an extremely distant goal of participating in the Green River Race my junior year and possibly trying out of the Olympic kayaking team. We’ll see.