<p>How is it?</p>
<p>Alright, this board is on the verge of becoming dead, so I'll describe my visit experience. </p>
<p>Weather:
I drove to Whitman when it was pouring rain; apparently, this was unusual weather for the area, and from what I heard from my overnight host it's normally very dry and comfortable most of the year, with September and May being annoyingly (but tolerably) hot out. </p>
<p>Dorms:
I visited Sunday night, and a bunch of the friends of my student host, and my host himself, were all working on a project due the next day. It was pretty quiet, laidback. The dorm I stayed in had this weird smell...not bad, not good, but strange; like, an earthy smell, whatever that is. </p>
<p>The dorms were in groups of 6-8 rooms (both singles and doubles) connected by a hallway. Each hallway let to an outside hall/balcony that overlooked a courtyard in a way similar to the way a motel might overlook a swimming pool; there were trees and chairs in the center of the couryard.</p>
<p>Campus/Facilities:
Each building was centered around a large field, which my host said wasn't really "the quad"--but that's basically what it was. The admissions building was in an old house, complete with working kitchen, which was kind of interesting. There were little rooms that the adcoms worked in and did their on-campus interviews from, and a waiting room w/ a big couch and some chairs where I sat while waiting for my interview. </p>
<p>I wasn't too impressed with the classrooms. Each classroom was nothing more than an overhead projector and a large green chalkboard w/ 40 moveable chairs with those mini-desks attached.</p>
<p>Classes and Overall impression:
I attended their "antiquity and modernity" core class, and another class. The core class was somewhat boring because I didn't know what was going on, but one student voluntarity moved her desk over which allowed me to look @ what she was reading, so that was nice;
In both classes that I attended, the students didn't really speak up a lot. That may be because both classes were freshman level classes, but it did disappoint me. I come from a school where many of the classes are discussion-based if you want them to be--teachers are more than willing to go off on mini-tangents--but at Whitman that didn't seem to be the case. </p>
<p>I go a pretty wealthy suburban HS; we use whiteboards and smartboards; I say this not to be pretentious, but I was surprised when I realized that I was comparing my public HS, which is free, to a private college, which is $38,000 a year, and found my HS winning. Of course, you can't judge an education by its facilities (think Abe Lincoln studying in a log cabin by candlelight, and becoming a genius nonetheless), but it was an interesting thing to take note of.</p>
<p>That being said, out of all the colleges I've visited, Whitman's student body does seem to be the most down to earth. It's a hippie-esque school, but the students aren't obnoxious about it. Instead, there are recycle bins everywhere, and students go out of their way to separate their junk into the respective bins. To me, that was a good example of the type of student a Whitman student is: a leader by example. </p>
<p>Anyway, this is getting way long, so I'll stop.</p>
<p>Awesome! Thanks so much.</p>
<p>i want to visit</p>