A small public
university located in
Portales,
New Mexico. It's the
Land of Enchantment's
youngest
state university, opening its doors in just 1934. It offers
undergraduate and
master's degrees.
ENMU is an
inexpensive school (in fact, back in the olden days, one of the best things about the university is that they gave out
scholarships like candy at Christmas), but the
administrators seem to be working hard to increase the level of
bureaucracy, so that they'll be more admired by other, larger, more bureaucratic colleges.
The
campus is
beautifully
landscaped -- there is a ton more
greenery than you'd ever expect to find in
rural eastern New Mexico. Much of
campus life used to be centered around the
fountain in the middle of the campus, though the
administration ended up knocking it down so they could build some
gruesome, unwanted
amphitheatre in its place. The campus
library is home to one of the largest collections of
rare and collectible
science fiction books in the nation. And the
football stadium is located, for some reason, several miles north of town.
There is not very much to do for
entertainment in Portales, so it's best to cultivate a
hobby (hopefully, something
other than
drinking) before you apply.
Favorite Odd
Factoid: The school's
mascot -- the
Greyhound -- was selected when a member of the
football team saw a
Greyhound bus drive by the field one
fall while the team was
brainstorming for a mascot...
I had enough happy memories of my time at Eastern to work at the college years after
graduation. I also had enough
unhappy memories of the college that, after moving away again, I swore never to go back...