So, this weekend I went to Oklahoma City to check out Oklahoma City University where I have been accepted into the law school. I was pleasantly surprised by the whole experience, other that the little detail that it actually takes more time to fly than drive, but that is a completely different story.
Now, I have to admit my expectations were rather low because as one of the other admittees said, "The name just screams community college and not law school." However, when I got there at 7:00 in the morning I was able to wander around the campus and the building for the law school and poke my head into places that probably weren't intended to be viewed by the uninitiated. The campus just seems to be a bigger, red brick version of Southwestern.
There is this aesthetic uniformity among the buildings on campus, and the inside of the Sarkeys Law Center was a cross between the interior of the McCombs center and Olin. The law library also had a very strong resemblance to SU's library as well. So since I really liked SU's campus all of this goes into the plus column.
They have also offered me a fairly generous scholarship with maintanence requirements that I think I can actually attain. Another entry in the plus column.
I drove around Oklahoma City and the neighboring burgs, or townships, and found them to be generally pleasant. I found two apartment complexes that are ten minutes from the school and appeared from the outside as though they would be acceptable domiciles.
The Aberdeen is caddy-corner to a Methodist church and is about five minutes from the capital building; it is also near a non-emergency medical center (this means no ambulances) where I might be able to utilize my medical billing experience in getting a decent paying part-time job.
The Ambassador House is five minutes from an aikido dojo (the dojo is also about ten minutes from the school), and I would very much like to take that back up. There was a noticeable lack of gyms though, or maybe they just hide and disguise them a lot better than we do here in Texas.
So all in all I really enjoyed my visit to Oklahoma City and felt there were some distinct possibilities there. OKC also seems to have a disproportionately high ratio of good looking people (especially guys) for the size of the community. It is also overflowing with Chinese resturants.
However, I have also been admitted to Texas Wesleyan's School of Law and have also received a scholarship there (though not nearly as generous as OCU's). I will be going up to check out their campus in a couple of weeks.
I'm still waiting to hear back from several schools and although I'm pretty certain that I'm just waiting for all of the rejection letters to come in; I would like to have those before I commit myself to either of the schools that have already offered me a position.
