<p>I guess to answer the "typical day" question I'll show you three days for me:</p>
<p>A Monday:
Got up, jogged, had breakfast and headed to a 10AM class (the earliest you can have classes is 8AM). After an hour of class, got lunch and did work-study at the admissions office. Then came my second class, which ends at 3:00. After that, I studied until 9 when I went to a frat to watch Monday Night Football. I came home just after midnight, studied for another hour and went to sleep.</p>
<p>A Tuesday:
Breakfast, an hour of class in the morning, an hour rest, lunch, two straight two-hour classes (neither of which usually last the full two hours) then dinner, half an hour in the pool (so much food here in college, you have to exercise as much as possible to stay in shape) and homework the rest of the night.</p>
<p>A Saturday: (life here isn't all work)
A rally on the Canaan Green featuring Mexican food and a couple of bands, a football game (ties and sundresses), a trip to Goshen (I didn't go but my friends did - it's a place north of town where you can swim, picnic, etc.) then at night at least three different frats had cover bands in their basements. There was a hip-hop cover band, an 80's cover band and a Southern rock (no idea what that is) cover band. Dancing all night! </p>
<p>Sunday it's back to studying for the week.</p>
<p>Party life here is amazing, frats are throwing parties all the time. You have to be smart here, if you go to all of them, you will not succeed academically. There are definitely way more than enough parties and they are open to all.</p>
<p>The professors here are extremely intelligent, as befits a school of W&L's caliber. They are also very friendly and always willing to talk and help you out - the benefits of being in a small school. They will even give you their home phone numbers. Before you meet with your advisors to schedule classes before your first term, you actually go to dinner with them and talk about your plans, your background and everything else. It's amazing how much all the staff at the school, from your professors to your advisors to the security guards, want to be your friends.</p>
<p>In terms of the students, I have never met nicer people. The only problem is that, with the exception of the international students, diversity is not W&L's strong point, though it is getting better every year, which is quite visible in my class.</p>
<p>The freshmen dorms can be better. Unless you're lucky, you're going to end up in Graham-Lees or one of the dorms of the quad, Baker, Davis or Gilliam (my dorm). I think about 60% of the rooms are singles, the rest are doubles. They're not too big, especially the doubles (my roomie and I literally have no room to unbunk our beds with the drawers, desks and sink taking up the rest of the space along the walls) and don't have air conditioning. The only exception is if you're one of the few freshmen to end up in Gaines (normally upperclass housing). Gaines has suite-style dorms with air conditioning (that you have no control of so it could actually get quite cold in the summer), a lounge area and its own fitness center so you don't need to use the one in the gym. After freshman year, housing gets much better. You can choose to live in a frat or a srat, upperclass housing (suite-style like Gaines or apartments in Woods Creek) or off-campus. </p>
<p>Well, I hope I answered your questions. I'm going to take a quick dip in the pool and then I have a LOT of reading and studying to do tonight (I'm not kidding guys, W&L is a lot of reading, a lot of note-taking and a lot of note-taking, I've only had two history classes so far yet I already have 5-pages of notes just on her lectures).</p>
<p>Later,</p>
<p>Dima, Class of '09</p>
<p>PS: Only at W&L do you get an e-mail from your DEAN inviting you to go bridge jumping into the James River as a freshman class activity.</p>