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10 Reasons Why Choosing the University of Iowa Was the Best Decision I’ve Ever Made

My entire life I was told to go to college, find what I love, and make enough money to feel comfortable. So when it came time for me to start looking at colleges (aka. my sophomore year of high school) all the pressure seemed to be on me. At that point in life I still didn’t know what I wanted to do, I thought about being a computer or software engineer but I still thought college was in the distant future. Little did I know that I would fall in love with Chemical Engineering and the University of Iowa in just one short year. Let me tell you why the University of Iowa was the right choice for me then and still is today. 10 .It felt like home when I stepped onto campus, and it still does to this day. When I visited during my junior year of high school,

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5 Reasons Why Every Dorm Should Have a Dorm Dog

There are times where my hallmates and I yearn to have a furry companion to distract us from our boring physics textbook or long coding assignments. We could just go to the other side of town to Petland. The only problem is, none of us have a car that is available to us at the touch of a button because unfortunately, in Iowa City there is no Uber. So instead we look up pictures of fluffy dogs and even sometimes ~gasp~ CATS. But this does not appease our need for a ball of fur to be yipping and whining for our attention. The solution is to give rescue dogs homes in the dorms on campus. Now, I know there can be some downsides to this, but just look at the positive things that can come of it! 1.The Dog (and College Students) will never be lonely. The dog will always