End of day 3 (again)

I'd had this great post about today all written out and then I lost my wifi signal... so I apologize but this one will be shorter.
It took me less time than I had thought it would to get from the school to the hotel this morning, so I got there about 25 minutes early only to find that the doors were card-locked. How do you want me to audition if you make it impossible for me to get in? Anyway, a student heard me knocking and took pity on me. Once again, I was the first one of the day, there was supposed to be a guy before me but was coming from Kentucky and hadn't made it yet. So they took me early. I did my monologues, they asked about me, I asked about the program, and that was it. The whole thing took about 10 minutes.
The program itself is different than a lot of the others I've looked at. It's original works based. They take 10 students every 3 years. The first year is spent building ensemble, coming up with original stuff. The second year a guest director is brought in to create a show with them. The third year, the class does an outreach with a pre-chosen group and collaborate a show with them. For example, the current grad class is working with refugees living in Columbus, helping their families, teaching ESL, etc. Their final show is based on the refugees' stories. The next grad class will be working with Columbus Public Schools and Stand Up for Shakespeare, getting the kids excited and participating with Shakespeare. As part of the that, the grad class will go to Stratford during the first year to study with the program administrators, then one of them would come be the guest director during the second year. Finally the grads would go into the schools to do Stand up for Shakespeare. So yeah, the Shakespeare thing, the creating your own shows thing, the ensemble thing all sounds like me. The problem is I just didn't feel much of a connection with the faculty, I didn't feel like they were particularly interested in me or whatever. Admission here has to go through the school before the department can start making any offers, so it could be a while before I hear anything from them either way.
Anyway, since the whole thing was over so fast, I decided to drive around a bit. On one side of campus I found a theater and a Starbucks. On the other side of campus I trolled that awesome street of tiny book stores, bars, coffee houses and tattoo parlors. After driving off my adrenaline letdown, I crashed at the hotel for a few hours talking to Mom and Adam. When hotel room fever set in, I headed out for a movie (Defiance) and picked up Chinese food.
Tomorrow I'll catch my flight to Providence. It's been sort of on-and-off spit snowing here, so I hope that doesn't cause any problems tomorrow.
Christian out.