Central Michigan University (Michigan)

This postcard comes from our niece Alyssa who’s just started her first year at CMU studying education. Confession time: Michigan is blessed with so many great universities that it never occurred to me that I might study outside the state. When I moved to Pittsburgh for grad school at the University of Pittsburgh, I was shocked during my first weeks how many people had said they’d attending “CMU.” Some even said they were currently attending CMU! I couldn’t believe the commute from Pittsburgh to Mt. Pleasant… it was an embarrassingly long time before I figured out that CMU also meant “Carnegie Mellon University.”