If you looked from a distance at the California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), campus, it might have appeared as though it had been transformed into a scene from the "Wizard of Oz" on May 13. Dozens of white t-shirted "munchkins," dotting the landscape, could be seen scurrying in and out of buildings. Once you got closer, it was easy to see these were instead preteen students and across the front of their t-shirts the words "I'm Going to College" were silk-screened. Actually, it was all planned. "I'm Going to College" is an early awareness program in which rural fourth-graders become honorary college students for a day at CSUB. The program is administered by the Southern San Joaquin Valley California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP) through the Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office with sponsorship from the California Student Aid Commission. After spending the semester in the classroom learning about higher education and college opportunities, 320 fourth-grade students from Maricopa, La Hacienda (California City), Hamilton (Rosamond) and Cuyama (Santa Barbara County) elementary schools traveled to CSUB to experience what it is like to be honorary college students for a day. "There is one constant in all of this - all of the students come from small towns where frequently a high school education is the end of their education," said Cal-SOAP Project Director Alyse Barrios. "Often, the mindset is that finishing high school is all that is expected of them. We introduce them to college to show the endless possibilities a higher education can provide." More