<p>YES! The first thread on this forum to ever hit 100 replies!</p>
<p>We totally rock!</p>
<p>So Aaron, you’re a conqueror? I live in Kent, but I got to Thomas Jefferson High School in Federal Way. Yeah most people here really haven't heard of WLU. But yeah, here’s to the Kent, Washington’s influence at WLU!</p>
<p>"I think I'm going to make a map of all the places we're from.</p>
<p>There's gonna be a lot of dots in the Northeast, South and West and like nothing in the middle. Not like anyone lives there anyway."</p>
<p>heyyyyy i resent that. oklahoma's fun. everyone should visit! you can, um, look at buffalo. and indians. and old women playing bingo!</p>
<p>Sorry, Cecilia but Oklahoma is part of Texas in my book so you're counted as the South, not the mid-West, I was referring more to the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana.</p>
<p>okay, oklahoma is so NOT texas it's not even funny. we have trees up here! and um...no cowboys. or something. but its not texas!</p>
<p>haha you tell him sister! everyone sees the south as one big blob. when i go to nyc or california people always comment on my accent and always say "howdy" and ask if im from texas or tenn. and i personally consider oklahoma as a middle state with a southern twist and texas is southwestish. but all of this is random and so off topic. anyway... southern pride!!</p>
<p>Wait, you mean the South ISN'T one big blob?</p>
<p>I'm just kidding ya ;)</p>
<p>Oklahoma has Wes Clark and all the vets, which is pretty cool.</p>
<p>Represent W&L:</p>
<p>I know this is a few posts back but i've been out of town. I just want to holler at all my Washington State people, I hail from Bellevue, Washington so now we represent a whole three WnLers in the Seattle area. Go Sonics!</p>
<p>Washingtonians in the houuuuuuuuuuuse! I'm pretty surprised there are three of us on this forum alone, and two from Kent. I figured being from here would be my hook.</p>
<p>Wow, talk about a long trip, all the way across the country to W&L, how did y'all decide to attend? How did you even find out about dubyuhnell?</p>
<p>How I got roped into WnL is seriously the most random thing ever. One day in the middle of junior year I got a pamphlet from some small school in Virginia touting their politics program. A few weeks later they send me a letter about the Summers Scholars program, and I applied at the insistence of my mom. Who knew I'd completely fall in love with WnL that summer. I'm pretty sure it was destiny.</p>
<p>Whooooo yeah!</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t expect this many people from Washington, not along Kent. Given, that Kent isn’t even that big of town, I think that’s just amazing. As for how I found out about W & L, after the Psat, W & L was one the schools that had sent me lots of mail. Well, I did some research and decided to apply there. After I got in, I visited. After I visited, I decided that W & L was the school. Yes, I’m a classic example of the effectiveness of mass-mailing campaigns.</p>
<p>Will, you're not the only one, that's what got me too, the beautiful mailings with the pictures of the Collonade.</p>
<p>You mean they didn't rope y'all in with tales of Lexington nightlife? The clubs? The fine dining? The culture? ;)</p>
<p>The insane club scene was definetely the kicker for me. This thread is getting out of control. 114 responses. We check this thing way too often. No, we're not excited for September at all.</p>
<p>ariesathena, what happened to the sweet tea reference?</p>
<p>I was assaulted with the idea of sweet tea when I told some southerners that we have better tea here in NYC, still have no clue what it is though.</p>
<p>oh hell no, son! the south owns nyc in the ice tea department! i love how im arguing this, even though i rarely drink tea, but i still love it.</p>
<p>haha i think he was talking about hot tea....like that we in NY have a wide varity of tea. But yes the south does have the best "sweet tea" or ice tea with lots of sugar.</p>
<p>I'll change the profile back. </p>
<p>NYC has Fauchon, which, IMO, is the best tea in the world. I'm a tea snob - but trust me, that stuff is good.</p>
<p>The South has sweet tea, which is NOT just tea with sugar (or worse, tea with corn syrup). When you heat sucrose, it inverts (splits into component fructose & glucose and then "inverts" - stereoisomers flip - you'll learn in organic chem what I'm talking about). Anyway, the inversion process makes the drink sweeter than it would be otherwise and gives it a different flavour. You cannot simply add sugar to iced tea and get the same result! I've seen some sweet tea recipes which call for brewing the tea in the sun all day - the theory is that sweet tea should have enough sugar and caffeine to keep a herd of elephants hyper for several hours. Oh, yes, the sheer quantity of sugar in sweet tea will give most people diabetes just by looking at it. :)</p>
<p>wow, sounds fantastic</p>
<p>Elle, to be honest, I did not know what I was asking, since I knew nothing about sweet tea until about a minute ago (thank you so much ariesathena) but as for hot tea, you can't beat NYC just because of the variety. On Chambers St. between my school and City Hall, there's one bakery where you can get any type of green tea imaginable and a tea place where you can get tea from all over the world - even Russian tea!</p>