<p>this board is looking bleak! I don't want the WM board to die :'(
what are you guys most excited for about WM next year? or if you're applying what do you like best about it? I love colonial williamsburg, I think it's so pretty and I still can't believe I'm going to live there. and I also love that there is a WM Busch Gardens day. can't wait for that.</p>
<p>Yeah, this board is pretty dead.</p>
<p>I applied to William and Mary for several reasons. First, I want to have a career in writing (possibly journalism) after I finish my education, and W&M has a really good English department. Second, the atmosphere seems like it's one that will be conducive to learning--relatively small student body, few distractions, and it's away from home but not too far away. Third, my genius of a sister went there. Gotta get a legacy up and running sometime.</p>
<p>Holden -- we might as well be the same person. I'd love to be a journalist someday and perhaps focus on film or literature analysis...the W&M English Department seems like the perfect place to start. </p>
<p>It's also far enough away from home but not completely isolated (I had a problem with the schools where you had to fight your way through a cornfield to get to the campus) It also feels like a place for people who haven't been taking practice SATs since second grade. Academic masochists nonetheless, but...</p>
<p>Then I assume I'll be seeing you at the Flat Hat meetings, eh? Look for the guy with the shaggy brown hair--it should be shoulder length by next August. :)</p>
<p>hahaha this cracks me up. I've been the editor of the school paper for three years and will write for the flat hat - hopefully. I think the dog street journal sounds cool too, I've been wanting to check that out. I'm planning on studying government and french/arabic though; I probably won't go into journalism.
holden - my brother goes there too. I'm thinking W&M is a big sibling legacy school because every person I know who has applied and had a sibling there ended up being accepted and going. either that or we all have really smart families and know what an amazing place WM is!</p>
<p>I've been trying to get on the newspaper staff at my school for a few years, but my paper has a really lame requirement that staff members have to have passed Journalism I to write for the paper. I tried to get into Journalism I last year, but it was during the same period as AP English and that was more important to me. Most of my AP teachers point me out because they think that I'm a really good writer, and the editor-in-chief of our paper has tried to get the sponsor to let me on, but it has been to no avail. Fortunately the Flat Hat doesn't have the same stupid requirements and welcomes people from all areas to write for the paper.</p>
<p>As for the smart family bit, I'm going to go with the Big Sibling Theory over the Smart Family Thoery; my older sister and I will be the only ones to have graduated from college. I've got three other siblings; two of whom are idiots, but the other could have went had he tried. My mother dropped out of high school but eventually got her GED; my father quit with his education after high school.</p>
<p>:( that sucks you couldn't write for the paper in high school, but at least you can start on the flat hat. my brother has written a few things for them I think and he has had no journalism experience, excluding that. my school is the same way, but luckily I could fit in journalism during my sophomore year.
that's really cool that you and your sister are the first to graduate college; your parents must be so proud. none of my friends understand why I would even want to apply to my brother's school but I loooooove W&M. and apparently, they love sibling duos!</p>
<p>Flat Hat indeed...I looked into that earlier this year and it sounds pretty interesting...I'll be the <em>girl</em> with the shaggy, shoulder-length brown hair :)</p>
<p>Hoping to get involved in some intramurals, too. My high school doesn't have sports, so I'm looking forward to getting a little beat up. </p>
<p>Undecided -- Arabic?? whoa. Hugely difficult, I'm sure, but very useful in this day and age. </p>
<p>I don't have any siblings, but my cousin is a freshman this year. </p>
<p>Odd...</p>
<p>the DSJ updates on their website daily, @ <a href="http://www.dogstreetjournal.com%5B/url%5D">www.dogstreetjournal.com</a>, and publishes in print monthly. The flat hat comes out weekly, and there are many other publications on campus to sink your teeth into.</p>
<p>If you're not doing anything this Friday, the 10th... enjoy your future football team playing live on ESPN 2 at 7, it might not happen again for years. =P</p>
<p>the WM board was a lot more populated on the old boards... I dunno what happened =/</p>
<p>dropofwater - I want to get into intramural sports too. I've always been a swimmer so maybe I'll look into that, but I also used to play field hockey freshman/sophomore year. what sports are you thinking about? yeah arabic does seem like kind of a random - and difficult - language, but my family is arab and everyone speaks arabic, except me haha. I'm also planning on majoring in government and they are in dire need of arabic speakers.</p>
<p>thanks soccerguy, that's good to know a/b the dogstreet. I don't know much about it but I thought it seemed a little more 'underground' than the flat hat and that kind of appealed to me. hopefully more people will discover the WM board!!! there were a lot of people anticipating ED letters, but I'm afraid most of them got bad news :'( hopefully towards the RD dates and in the spring it will be busier.</p>
<p>geez ya'll I got in too! don't leave me out of the festivities! I applied b/c it is really close to home so free laundry and i still get to live on campus, instate tuition is a plus too :) it is an awesome school. i hope to study history or government or maybe english. definitely not the math or science girl!! I'm not the best writer as many of you on the board have noticed but I do like to volunteer so that I prob what i'll end up doing a lot of. I LOVE to read so I'll read ya'll's articles in the newspaper b/c it takes talent to write!! I'm the first person in my family to go directly to college. My dad is finishing up now and my mom got her bac when i was in elem school and finished her masters last winter @ ODU. i am estatic to have gotten in and am paranoid of getting kicked out. I just spent 7 hrs (3 to 10 pm) on a spanish project so I'll get a A in that class. I am dying with calc but I've finally learned how my teacher likes stuff in gov't so hopefully that'll bring calc up. </p>
<p>so where is everyone else from?</p>
<p>when i wore my sweatshirt this weekend 3 people told me that my school won. granted i had no clue what they were talking about until someone told me that the football team won. gotta start lookin at the scores. </p>
<p>did anyone else go crazy w/ the green and gold like me?!? my coincidentally green jeep has a W&M sticker, plus ribbons on the anntena, rear windshield wiper, and on the bike rack on top. really... no one else... i'm such a dork...</p>
<p>I haven't went wild with the green and gold YET. All I've gotten so far is a W&M flag that my friend gave me when he found out that I got in. The rest of the green and gold comes this Christmas. :)</p>
<p>melend, one good thing about writing is that it's a learned skill--the more you put into it, the more you get out of it. A few weeks ago I found a journal that I had to keep in freshman English, and the writing was horrid: I couldn't spell, I didn't know how to use comma's correctly, I used double negatives, and I had a slew of other mistakes. I've worked on it a great deal over the past year since I think the ability to express oneself in writing is one of the most important skills a person can have. If you want it bad enough and are willing to work at it, it will come with time. Either way, from the sounds of it we're going to be doing A LOT of writing in college, so you'll get better at it, I'm sure. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, no one's born with it. </p>
<p>The only thing I really want right now is a sweatshirt. Warmth and the "I-don't-have-to-fill-out-anymore-applications" message all in one nifty pull-over. </p>
<p>I love the fact that the process itself is over. Like, it's AGAINST THE LAW for me to write anymore essays. I am legally PROHIBITED from doing more work on other college applications. Pretty sweet.</p>