Every college campus you've set foot on, as a passport stamp

Most people can name the college they went to. Ask how many campuses they've actually walked through, and it takes a minute.

There's the one you toured at 17 with a parent who asked the tour guide too many questions. The one your best friend went to, where you slept on a dorm floor for a weekend. The stadium you drove four hours to for one game. The reunion you almost skipped.

Campuses is a new collection in Pond Passport for all of them. Each campus is its own illustrated stamp, and checking in fills in the map around it, so a Cornell check-in collects Ithaca and New York too.

Why campuses belong in a passport

A campus visit is almost never a solo trip. You go with a parent on a college tour, with friends for a game, with your old roommates for a reunion. Pond Passport is built around who you were with, which makes campuses a natural fit.

Open a campus stamp and tap "I've been here," and it's collected, along with its city, state and country.

Use it as your college tour checklist

If you're in the middle of campus visits, add every school on the list to your Bucket List first. Open the stamp and tap "Add to Bucket List."

After each visit, check in. The stamp moves into your collection on its own, and the list gets shorter as you go.

Add a note while it's fresh: the dorm you saw, the dining hall, the thing the tour guide said that stuck. By the fourth campus they start to blur together, and the notes are what you'll want when it's time to decide.

The Ivy League campuses

All eight Ivy League schools have a stamp.

They're closer together than people expect. Yale, Brown and Harvard are a few hours apart by car, and so are Columbia, Princeton and Penn. Cornell and Dartmouth are the ones you plan a separate trip around.

The Massachusetts and New York guides list every campus you can collect in those states.

The Big Ten campuses

The Big Ten has 18 schools now, from New Jersey to Los Angeles, and every one of them has a stamp.

The four newest members are on the West Coast.

If you follow a team, away games are a good excuse to collect campuses you'd never have visited otherwise.

College towns

Some towns are built around their campus. Pond Passport now has city stamps for a set of classic college towns, and checking in at the campus collects the town along with it.

Pasadena, Spokane, Durham and Colorado Springs are in the set too. The Colorado and Arizona guides list their new college towns next to everything else you can collect there.

A college town is also worth a moment of its own. Log the brunch spot or the bookstore you still think about, and the city fills in from that.

Tours, game days and reunions

The best part of a campus stamp is who was with you.

Add the people you were there with. The stamp keeps them, and their profiles start showing the campuses you've shared. Your college roommate's profile ends up with your whole four years on it.

For each visit, tap "Add & create a moment" to log that day with its date and the people on it. Every moment shows up in the stamp's History, newest first. One campus can hold the tour, the graduation and the ten-year reunion, each with its own date and its own people.

If you're a parent doing the tour circuit, add your kid to each one. Years from now, it's a record of the fall you drove around looking at colleges together.

How to start

Open YourPond, find Campuses in Pond Passport, and check in at the ones you've been to. Start with your own, then the ones you only visited for a game!

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I have friends whose goal is to watch a Gophers game at every Big Ten stadium. You can collect every one of those campuses in YourPond. Go Gophers!

Graduation day at the University of Minnesota.

Pond Passport is free on the web and in the YourPond iPhone app.

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