Go Dawgs!

It's settled, Lucas is going to the University of Washington, which is called just UW around here.  The decision was made easy because it was the only school he applied to that accepted him; however, they already credit him with sophomore standing, and they accepted him into Electrical Engineering, which most engineering students have to apply for as they enter their junior year, so he starts in good standing.

The Washington mascot is the Husky (the women's sports teams are called the "Husky Women", really), which is shortened to Dawgs, or DaWgs, spelled funny because of the W.  The big rivalry is with the Washington State Cougars, and I have ignored the whole thing up to now as much as possible.  It probably does not have the storied history of the Cal-Stanford rivalry I grew up around, but there are only really two big universities in this state, so a lot of people who live here went to one or the other.  I hope Lucas's attendance still won't mean that I have to care who wins football games, but I wouldn't mind showing a little Husky pride with a t-shirt or something.

Lucas plans to live on campus and has already picked out a dorm with several engineering floors.  I think it will be good for him to get out of the house; I know he really wants to live on his own.  We visited the campus a couple of times, and it's very nice, reminds me of Berkeley, very old, with lots of open space, long walks between buildings.  The dorms look a little nicer -- no surprise that they may have improved things in the last forty years.  It is less than an hour from home, and I know Lucas wanted to get away, but I remember living in Berkeley 30 minutes from my parents' house, and it was far enough.

It's a good school, and a good engineering school, and Lucas did well to get in.  Now, he just has to graduate.