Old town Penobscot 174 (not the 169). Fantastic do it all boat, and bombproof

What kind of jobs? Long term career jobs? Pretty grim. Good jobs to work as a college student, plentiful. Regarding racism, many young people wouldn’t want to live in an area that’s 97%+ white because of the racism stigma, so I felt compelled to mention it. Generally, people in Maine are pretty friendly in my experience, it takes a little time to get them to open up at times, but once they do, they’re incredibly generous and genuine people. If you like outdoors activities, it’s really hard to beat Maine.

Orono is a great school, and particularly for chemical engineering. Orono is nicely centrally located close to larger towns/cities (Bangor), the coast, elite National Park (Acadia), mountains, lakes, the north Maine woods, and you can travel a couple hours south to get to a proper city (Portland) with lots of concerts and culture. Be mindful, Maine is the “whitest” state in the nation, but I don’t think Central Maine is particularly racist. There is a LARGE Trump contingent here, but that’s not the environment you’ll find generally on Campus.