Smu-in-Taos at Fort Burgwin

A must-do if you're an SMU student. Take advantage of your time at SMU by experiencing beautiful scenery, protected environment, and local, historical cultures. The campus has more-than-adequate amenities comparable to dorm living at SMU's main campus. Year-round, you can hike and play 18 holes of disc golf. In the winter, I enjoy sledding and making giant snowballs to roll down hills. If you're into fitness, the outside is really cold, which gives you the incentive to work really hard so that you don't freeze. That's what i do; if you make a giant enough snowball, it actually takes a lot of strength, especially if you're pushing it up-hill. Then you let it fall down the hill and then roll it up the hill again like Sisyphus. You definitely won't get that kind of workout in Dallas, which is why you should go to Taos. The faculty is easy to get to know and friendly. The courses can be integrated with the local field trip experiences to local Native American Tribes and other places. Just go. It's fun.

Beautiful scenery and fantastic learning experience.