Part With it, Start Again

8 hour (total) road trip to Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. I was honestly expecting to not like the place at all. It’s a small liberal arts college in the middle of cow country. As it turns out I liked the place more than I intended to. The tour guide was a tiny girl named Ellie who scurried around the little campus, stopping here and there to show us buildings and tell us about the college. There are only 1,400 students, which is drastically different from my other top college choices. It was such a cozy, friendly place, though it doesn’t offer the top-of-the-line medical equipment you see used at the big state schools and the majors are much more customized. I love that you could do a Creative Writing minor and take Premed classes at the same time. However, I do have to consider the fact that it’s not only smaller but the classes would most likely be less academically vigorous than those at SUNY Binghamton. Plus it’s in the midst of miles upon miles of corn fields and farther away from NYC than I’d like to be. With Bing I’d be able to take a bus down to the city for a weekend and maybe the LIRR to visit home. I’m assuming that WAC would be far less competitive due to the smaller size, which is an environment that I could thrive in. I absolutely loved the Creative Writing cottage, which was this eclectic little house filled with art and poems and quiet little spaces for writing (and they also had a cat named Langston Hughes!). The student body seemed friendly and there were I BELIEVE IN SHERLOCK posters everywhere to my delight. I do have to consider pricing; though WAC is offering me a pretty large sum of money, I’d still have to pay upwards of $26,000 a year which is 10 grand more than Bing. All I can say is that I have some big choices ahead of me, but I’m extremely excited!