Monday and Tuesday of fall break seemed like a day that everyone was gone. So therefore I decided to leave also. I went to visit the ¾ of my graduating class that went to Snow College.
Snow College varies from the U in…well pretty much everything. The first is where it is. The U is located in the biggest city in Utah, Snow can be found in Ephriam. A question commonly asked is, “What exactly is there to do in Ephriam?” The answer I found, was nothing much. The town has one stoplight, a couple places to eat, a theatre, a McDonalds, and that’s about it. Well, other than Snow of course.
The second difference is in the structure of the campus. I know from sad experience just how long it takes to walk from the dorms down to the furthermost reaches of Presidents Circle. However, at Snow I could probably jog circles around their whole campus without getting too winded. They have about four main buildings for classes, a library, and a performing arts center. The longest it would take to walk anywhere would be ten minutes. I had to laugh when I saw that people rode bikes around. Honestly, why risk getting your bike stolen when you could easily walk the fifteen steps it takes to get to class? It seems like the Utah campus definintely has a much greater presense than the Snow one. When you get onto Utah property, you definitely can see a difference. With Snow its really not very obvious at all. If they didn’t have the sign for Snow I probably wouldn’t even be able to tell that there was a college there at all.
The third difference was in the feel of the campus. It seems like the Utah campus definintely has a much greater presense than the Snow one. When you get onto Utah property, you definitely can see a difference. With Snow its really not very obvious at all. If they didn’t have the sign for Snow I probably wouldn’t even be able to tell that there was a college there at all. However, I felt much safer at Snow than I do here. People there don’t really even lock their cars. I felt like if I wanted to go jogging at night I wouldn’t get mugged. Whereas with the Utah campus leaving my car unlocked would be stupid, and jogging at night might possibly be suicidal.
Overall, I’m really glad that I chose to come to this school over Snow even though I’m the only person from South Sevier to come up here.
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I'm glad you did this. If you're an architecture freak like me there is actually plenty to do in Ephraim. I particularly love the Ephraim Cooperative building and the Ephraim Granary next door. There is a log granary behind the larger one (now an art gallery) on Main Street that has a very unusual construction called cribbing that is a very tight and dense construction of overlapping 2 by 4's that created such an airtight container that the pioneers loaded the buildings up with grain and it didn't leak out. Hard to imagine, but fascinating to see. If you go again try to find it. Also Spring City, which is about ten minutes away is my very favorite rural Utah town--a little jewel.
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