By Brad Guilinger ‘19
October 14th has been circled on our calendars for a long time. We’ve endured long, stressful nights with countless pages of reading, challenging homework and papers, and the typical days of pledgeship. All 13 of us freshmen, plus class mentor Jerel Taylor ‘16, have been very excited about this trip. After being greeted by President Hess, Dean Raters, and Dean Feller, we left the Chapel at 11:30 a.m. and headed for the airport. We arrived to the airport and got checked in. You would think after that we would go through security, find our gate, and make sure we are all situated for our flight. Oh wait, don’t forget food! Better yet, Qdoba! We had a lot of Qdoba! Once finished with our food we arrived at the security checkpoint, which I obviously wasn’t prepared for! My bag had to get checked for at least 3 different warnings. A word of advice based on what I learned the hard way: remember the limits on liquids you can bring in one bottle and other restrictions or else they will just throw it away! But from then on it was smooth sailing. We got on the 2 hour to Philadelphia. In Philly we had time for a snack of pretzels, fro yo, and, yes, some Philly cheese steaks. There is no better combination than that. The trip from Philadelphia to Albany was a very short 40 minute flight, followed by the hour and 45 minute drive to our hotel in Cooperstown. The hotel is very nicely equipped with multiple televisions to watch all the playoff baseball games in the evening. It was a long day of travel and now we are ready for the Baseball Hall of Fame. We are all thankful for this opportunity and very eager to learn and explore.
