Well, I can understand your aversion to VT. It is a beautiful state, with lots of cool places to visit, and good skiing. But it's small, not very exciting, and dominated by morons and their mind-control device equipped Priuses. They are everywhere here in MA too. And I mean EVERYWHERE. I can't go more than 2 miles without seeing another one. It's disgusting.
I'm in school for Geology. But I still really have no idea what I want to do. Dabbled in the car biz, decided that wasn't really for me, at least not on the retail end. I'm not so into the whole geology thing anymore because I don't really like the jobs that make half-way decent money in the field. I am thinking about geography instead, as there are many very high paying jobs in the field, and it's similar. I think I'm going to take a real estate program this summer, and maybe I'll get into that.
What do you like anyway? Do you want to go somewhere warm, cold, remote, urban? North Carolina is supposed to be nice. Then there is Univ. of Colorado - Boulder, which isn't too cold but is close to wheeling and skiing. California doesn't seem too awful, and Cal-Tech is a good school and apparently offers impressive financial aid. In fact, this was just on AOL tonight:
http://money.aol.com/loans/college/best-value-colleges
Maybe you'd consider Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks if you really wanted to get away. Or something in Florida near the beach.
I share the extreme love of the HUMMER brand, and I've often thought it would be awesome to work for AM General or at a retail HUMMER store. But it's not in my cards right now. I have an idea for something HUMMER related, but it's a few years away.