Sending my little girl to the mine..

Well, the process has begun. We arrived yesterday at Golden to bring Emily to school. As we got closer to Golden she was pretty nervous or as she put it terrified. A few weeks ago we recieved the news letter that told us our move in day, and how the protocal was for loading and unloading, moving of vehicles, times, check in locations, etc. I assured Emily about the fact that we were coming to an engineering school, and in my OCD way of thinking the most impressive thing about Mines has been their extreme planning of events to the smallest detail. Sure enough, as we approached the school there were huge traffic signs telling the moving in students what street to take, campus officers directing traffic to the "unloading zone". Direction signs all over, the "moving crew" were all wearing specific blue t-shirts, there were girls wearing sandwich boards with a giant ? on them if you had questions. Then we pulled into the loaing zone, Emily was directed up to check in, we pulled up and no less than 5 young men swarmed our truck with big rolling laundry baskets to help. They loaded up the baskets; asked her name and headed up to her dorm. Meanwhile, another young man came over to register her bike and a young woman offered us turkey sandwiches. Getting Emily into her dorm from the truck took - maybe - 10 minutes at most. As we got into her dorm, her bed was set all the way to the top. Her RA came in and asked if we needed anything and we asked how we move the bed down a little, she told Emily to go out and look for the boys with the rubber mallets, within 30 seconds, here came Emily back with a couple boys to move the bed down. Then another RA came in with a flyer for a welcome BBQ for the students at one of the fraternity houses, and said she would walk everyone down there at 5:30. We got her Blaster Card and started to get her settled in, we forgot a few things, so it was off to Wal-mart. Then as we were saying good night to her, she suddenly looked sad and said, "I feel to young". Well...a little late for that!!