| I attend the College of William and Mary (or Bill&Mary, or W&M, or, during finals, "The College of William and DEATH"). It's a nice, old school in Williamsburg, Va. Colonial Williamsburg is an interesting place. It is the recreation of the capital, yes Richmond, capital city of the colony of Virginia - what this really means is that we have cute little old colonial buildings in town, and more importantly, we have a lot of people walking around "in character" (and costume) as 18th century Virginians. It's great to go to the local Indian restaurant and see a man dressed like George Washington taking his aquarium into the pet place next door. |
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So W&M is the second oldest school in the country(1693), though in the Wren Building we do have the oldest functioning academic building - it's part of your education to take a class in Wren. What school is older, you want to know? that would be Harvard, founded in 1636, damn them. Yes, we here at W&M have a healthy dislike for 'the Harvard of the North' because...well, it is Harvard. I think that little grade inflation deal is what keeps us going against them always. NO GRADE INFLATION AT THIS SCHOOL! Princeton Review doesn't think we are so nice academically. They supposedly said that at our school a "2.8 GPA is equal to a 3.2 at Stanford." I've also been told that the 2000 Fiske Guide to Colleges called us a "bootcamp of academia." Unfortunately, I cannot find either of these sources, so it may be that someone was making it up..it's right in spirit, though. |
We are a strange group of students. We don't have bars in Colonial Williamsburg (CW) . CW didn't have bars either, but at least they had taverns -all we have is delis. So you can go to a frat, or a deli.. ah, night life. We deal - it's part of the responsibility of being a bill&mary student. Even my suitemates realize that we are seen as a cut above average: we go to 'pimps and prostitutes' parties rather than 'pimps and hos' because we can spell 'prostitute' here at W&M( BUT we could use any one of its myriad synonyms too, damn it). It's not unusual to walk past the outdoor tables and hear things like, "so you're saying that God is a capitalist??" Freudian debates are also popular here; one of my roommates is a Freudian deep down -subconsciously, as it were.. Eh, anyway.. |
| Enough of our supposed intellectual inclinations, what really sets W&M students apart is our profound and spiritual attachment to the squirrels on campus. (Someone less Romantic might say we have an infestation.... But we all agree that you can't escape the squirrels.) My friends and I once counted 19 squirrels in a 100-ft radius. might have been less - feet that is, not squirrels- there were definitely 19 of them. We have conspiracy theories about the squirrels... we have named a couple; Stubbles the Bob-tailed squirrel is a young creature who proves that squirrels are really rats with long, fluffy tails: cut the tail down to the end and you have hopping rats. I also stopped one of my walks to observe a squirrel that had a golden tail; he stood still and let me look at him.. the tail was not GREY -'was GOLD, I tell you! I creatively dubbed him "The Golden Tailed Squirrel that lives in front of the Wren Building." |
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| But that's enough of school, unless you want to know more. That case, you can visit the official [BS] site, or you could email me. |
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| You might see students talking to Patrick Henry at anytime in CW. My friend and I definitely laughed at George Washington when he slipped in the gravel. |
| School (!) |
| Statue of Lord Blair, aka Darth Vader |
| err.. or I graduated. am now... hiding out at a graduate school in the southeast.. |