If you walk past the Lederle Graduate Research Center and past Stockbridge Hall, you may stumble into the Agricultural Engineering Building. It’s one of those old brick buildings you’ll probably never set foot into unless you have a class there.

If I took a time machine back about 30 years I would recognize some very familiar faces walking the same streets of UMass that I walk today. Two of these being my own parents! Both of my parents were undergraduates at UMass Amherst in the early '90s, where they met and graduated with degrees in education and engineering. 

The University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Commonwealth’s flagship public research university, is one of the nation's top universities for research as measured by national and international rankings, academic citations, and research funding. The campus spends more than $200 million on research each year, demonstrating its contribution to the nation’s position as a technological and economic leader. Being such a large and well-resourced research university, undergraduate research is part of the UMass Amherst experience.

It's never too early to start looking at colleges! If you are interested in visiting a lot of colleges, summer is a great time to check out campuses and get a feel for different schools.