U.C. Merced opens its doors

When I was in high school (oh so long ago) there was talk of a new UC in Merced. There were banners and celebrations and I remember thinking that this was a good thing for the otherwise faceless San Joaquin Valley (faceless to us who lived large in the facemore booming foothills of California’s Mother Lode). At any rate, a few years went by and the talk died down and the news started to dwindle, or perhaps my interest in it did.

Well what do you know? The new U.C. Merced is up and running and ready to take on Turkey Tech…err, the world! I was wondering what sort of aspiring, young high school grads will have their eyes set on UCM when I came across this quote from an article at News10.net:

About 1,000 students are the first to enroll. One of them is Leticia Lucatero, who turned down an offer of acceptance at Stanford to be one of the first at the new campus, which is sited just outside of Merced. “I like the whole pioneer thing,” she said. “I like not being one of 13,000. I can make stuff, more of my opinion here, I feel.”

Well, Leticia, I think it is safe to say you’ve made the right decision.

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