Mills

I am a "Mills Woman!"

Yep... it is true... My masters degree is from Mills College. 

If I told you the actual name of my degree you would yawn...

but ... Mills College is an amazing, somewhat hidden, Oakland gem.

I won't go into the whole history of the school, etc.  You can look all that up if you are really interested... but it has been around pretty much ... forever.

 Now I'm not knocking good ol' SDSU.  My undergrad years were filled with life experience. 
(How else was I to learn that you really shouldn't jump out of a moving vehicle.???) 
But I think it goes without saying that the difference in my educational experiences were pretty extreme.

Mills was SERIOUS school...
  There were times when I likened it to boot camp....
the education department broke you down and built you back up!
... and guess what... I know my stuff!

So there are other cool things about Mills besides just the education. 
I'm a TOTAL architecture nerd, and there is an abundance to gawk at on the Mills campus. 
The campanile was actually designed by Julia Morgan herself...

Now... I know some of you may be SUPER annoyed at me for saying this,
 but I REALLY think that men should be admitted to the undergrad programs. 
(Most, if not all, of the graduate programs admit men.) 
Not only do I think that it would make for a better draw to the school itself,
 I think it would be great for the neighborhood.  If the undergrad program was a bit bigger,
 more students might be drawn to living in the surrounding neighborhoods.

 I can just imagine a cool little coffee house on the corner of Seminary and Macarthur...