My daughter was just matched to do a small animal medicine rotating internship at Texas A&M. She will move there in June to start her rotation in July. Any recommendations for things to make the best of a year in College Station on a tight budget?
We will be helping to move her out there and I might be able to talk my wife and son to going to an Astros game while we are that close.
Congratulations on her internship. Sounds like a great opportunity.
Andy T. is an Aggie, Steve. Message him on Facebook for his ideas/suggestions.
Congrats!
There’s some pretty good barbecue in college station now. There’s also a meat store on campus where they sell the Aggie herd.
I’ve heard that the Aggies play most college sports, but I can’t recommend it. That’s a great vet school.
ETA: College station is only an hour from Snow’s Barbecue in Lexington. It is not exactly cheap, but it’s the best barbecue in Texas. You have to get there early on a Saturday morning–they only cook on Saturdays–but it’s well worth the investment of time. It’s also pretty close to Round Top which is a big antiques center, and famous for Royers Pie Haven. I’m not much on antiques, being one myself, but they have a good classical music festival in the summer and the pie haven is on my bucket list.
I can second the nominations for Snow’s & Royers. Both worth the trip (but not recommended for the same day unless you run from Lexington to Round Top).
Third recommendation for Snow’s here. Tremendous brisket.
Mrs Hawk is an Aggie, but she hasn’t been on campus in 25 years, and says she doesn’t recognize much of College Station anymore.
I had to be there for a day back this past December. It was the first time I had been there in 15 years or more. I didn’t recognized much.
If she drove clear to College Station think about what that would do to her annual mileage allocation.
I went to high school there when A&M Consolidated was across the street from the drill field & golf course. I lived two blocks south of campus and one block north of the cow pasture that stretched all the way to Cypress. Don’t tell me about how it has changed.