<p>We are not attending Kelley Direct admit activities this weekend, but we will get to the school about 4 on Sunday and we are doing the red carpet day Monday. Anything special we should make sure we see or do? This is. Our only visit to IU. Thanks</p>
<p>If the weather is nice on Sunday (haha), I suggest strolling around campus and having dinner at a restaurant on Kirkwood or 4th Street. Will you have extra time on Monday? Or are you just looking for suggestions for Sunday?</p>
<p>We should arrive in Bloomington about 430 sunday afternoon, and fly out of Indy at 830 Monday night. Much of Monday will be take up with the official tour! but if you have other suggestions please let me know. Any recommendations for where to eat Sunday. We’d like to go someplace where we are likely to find students. </p>
<p>We just did this last weekend. On Sunday, we picked up a campus map and drove/walked around and got a feel for where the 3 neighborhoods were and also walked around the town area right outside of the gates. Also drove around and found the mall, Target etc that were not far off of campus to give my daughter a feel for what was nearby. Sunday night we ate at Mother Bear’s - a pizza place right across from campus. It was filled with students. On Monday we ate lunch in the food court in the student union and it was packed with students. We stayed at the Biddle Hotel on campus and it was great to be right there in the middle of it all. We also found that Miss IU was being held on the Sunday night that we were there and went to see that so it might be fun to see if any events are happening on campus the Sunday night that you are there. Sounds like you are considering
Kelley- I think that I enjoyed the Kelley School presentation the most during the Red Carpet Day. </p>
<p>Mother Bears is a great place to eat. Since its on 3rd street, you’ll be near Jordan, Ballantine, Rawless…ect. a lot of your gen ed, math, and science classes will be around here so check it out! Walk behind the buildings that are right on 3rd street. There are paths behind them that are pretty typical for getting around as a student. I would say walk all the way to the law school on these paths. Once you get near the Swain East, the paths will go into a forest area which is also pretty cool. </p>
<p>You got really great advice from the posts above. I asked my daughter for ideas. For places to eat she suggested Siam House for Thai, The Irish Lion (downtown Bloomington) for pub food, Village Deli for breakfast, Ami for sushi, Buffalouies for wings/burgers/hot dogs, or Grazi for Italian. She said campus will be dead on Sunday, so unless you go into a library you won’t see many students. If you have free time on Monday she suggested going to the IMU (union) to get Starbucks and visit the bookstore, or walk around Kirkwood (go to Tracks for cheap IU apparel). Have a great trip! I hope you are as impressed as we were with our first visit. </p>
<p>I think Mother Bears gives you a good feel for the students. We also enjoyed dinner at Upland- great brewpub. </p>
<p>Thanks all. Anything else? Also, they do the Hutton honors session and the Kelley session at the same time. Someone said Kelley was the best part of the day. Should I go to honors and have my son go to kelley! or should we both go to kelley, any opinion?</p>
<p>I was the one who said that Kelley was the best part of my day but this is a tough question. I learned so much more about Kelley during this presentation (i-core, studying abroad. placement, etc) that may have interested me more than my daughter so that is why I liked it so much. It sold me on the school. Are you already sold on the program? Which opportunity do you want to learn more about? What topic interests your son? That will probably help you decide. Aside from that, the day sold my daughter. </p>
<p>I think you would be hard pressed to find student who feel Hutton has had a bigger impact on their college experience than Kelley. Most seem to view Hutton as nothing more than a way to get scholarship money. </p>
<p>I recommend both of you go to Kelley.</p>
<p>For food, these are all pretty good choices
-Pizza: Mother Bears (3rd Street)
-Cajun/Creole: Dats (4th Street) or Uptown Cafe (Kirkwood, on the square)
-Thai: Siam House (4th Street, catty corner to the parking lots)
-Wings/Burgers: Buffalouies (on Indiana, next to the Starbucks)
-Organic/Local: FARM (on Kirkwood)
-Breakfast: Runcible Spoon or Village Deli (don’t be shocked at the hangovers)</p>
<p>Scrabblemomb, we are not sold on the program or IU yet. University of Maryland, College Park and Miami Ohio are still very much being considered, and we both believe these are three great options. IU is significantly more expensive than the other options, so not at all sure where he will wind up. He got 11k OOS merit money, but nothing additional from Hutton honors, and I understand kelley doesn’t give many OOS freshmen merit money. We will pay if it’s his top choice, but Miami Ohio was quite impressive, and he and I have both spent time at UMD. It’s all good for us at this point, but I do admit I’m kind of hoping IU doesn’t wow us (savings could be up to 60k or more).</p>
<p>1214mom, We’ve been to all your options - all good choices! Enjoy your visit this weekend.</p>
<p>Went to Mother Bears this past weekend for Connect with Kelley… fun!! Have one suggestion to add, plan well ahead for parking, find out in advance where you can park! It was a big hassle this past weekend.</p>
<p>^^^^As a local, we don’t go to Mother Bear’s as often a we would like simply because of the lack of parking. When we do go it’s typically during the summer when parking is less of an issue. </p>
<p>Probably too late for this weekend, but here are my food recommendations for visits
Breakfast, lunch or dinner–Uptown Cafe (kind of a cajun twist and excellent gumbo)
Bar food with a few Greek items–Trojan Horse I hesitate to recommend Nick’s. I’m kind of old school about the place and hate seeing under 21s in there. The Irish Lion can be hit or miss on the service, most often miss in my experience.
Lunch or Dinner with an emphasis on local food and less pricy than FARM–Lennie’s Brewhouse–good stuff from sandwiches to pasta to pizzas
Burgers–Opie Taylor’s
Sandwich–Dagwoods
Breakfast–Village Deli is okay. I prefer the Uptown.
Pizza–Cafe Pizzaria or Mother Bears. Two different pizza styles, both good.
If you have a car and want Italian go to DeAngelo’s near the mall instead. It’s owned by a former IU football coach. It’s a chain in the south, but he convinced them to let him open a store here. Much better than Gratzi, even with a smaller menu.
Just my opinion on two of the most overrated restaurants in B-ton: Malibu Grill and Gratzi. We used to head to Gratzi fairly often, but we just had bad food too many times. Overcooked pasta and undercooked, still frozen, fish don’t cut it for us. We’ve only been to Malibu Grill once–once was enough to know we weren’t going back. </p>
<p>For a really pricy meal: Janko’s (steaks) or Restaurant Tallent. The chef at Restaurant Tallent was again a runner-up for the James Beard award. I’d also have to put FARM in the pricy, for B-ton, category. </p>
<p>Thanks. We went to Buffalouies. It was good. There really aren’t that many students out and about today. I’m sure there will be more tomorrow. If we have time tomorrow we may try Uptown. </p>