I saw “UP” last Friday and while I wasn’t expecting to ball my eyes out in a kids movie…I did for the first half hour.  It’s a great  movie.  See it.

I took a tour of Arizona State University today with my niece so I have  a lot of little random facts to share with you.

• They currently have 64,000 students, the second largest university population in the nation. 
• They are the ONLY major university in the Phoenix metropolitan area.  (So, not a lot of options for us here.)
• They have over 200 undergraduate majors to choose from.  Imagine trying to pick one if you are undecided!
• There are 4 campuses spread throughout the valley.
• Researchers at the University are responsible for inventing rubberized asphalt.  If you aren’t from here you’ve probably never heard of it but they pave our freeways with it to make them much more quite.  Which is nice if you live by one.  What’s even cooler is they repair themselves when they crack because it is made out of recycled rubber tires. 
• They are currently working on making rubberized asphalt for other areas of the country that actually get rain because apparently moisture is not it’s friend. 
• Right now they are working on creating a paper thin laptop that fits around your arm for the military.  How cool is that?
• I also learned that you should take your kids to these things when they are freshman’s in high school so they can see what awesome scholarships they can get if they keep up their GPA.
• Watching the parents tour the campus with their kids made me realize just how hard it’s going to be when it is my turn to send Eva to a big scary college campus.