I heart Will... and Mary

this is the wren building, the oldest academic building in america. and students of William and Mary still take classes in it. hopefully i will be one of them...

guys i went to my interview and info. session and tour on wed. and ohmigosh. i am sooo in love with this school it is not even funny. i can't really even describe it, but it just fits me. the campus is so beautiful, it's small enough to have a sense of community and about a million funny and fun traditions, it's soooo historical- washington, jefferson, monroe, tyler, yea, all these guys went there. their catholic campus ministry looks AMAZING, eucharistic adoration every monday evening, they have a n active pro-life club, i can take the TrAiN, and oh yea, their academics are superb. they're called a "public ivy" and so even though i am from out of state, it's about $10,000 less than Duke or Davidson. and speaking of which, mom and i will be going to both next week (duke mon. davidson thrus.) for the tours, so i can hopefully cross them off my list and turn in an early decision application for W&M. so if all goes well, i'll be able to know where i'm going by january and can spend the rest of senior year worrying about a dress for graduation, instead of which school is best for me, focusing on classes instead of SAT subject tests, and can be searching for financial aid instead wasting money on applications for schools i don't need to apply to.

sooo yea. and then this morning one of laura's physical therapists was here along with her boss, because they wanted to take pictures to put on their companies website and so she was asking what school i was interested in and i said william and mary and laura's pt goes"oh my sister went there and my mom went there for grad school." now caitlin is from va, but still, i was ready to fall over. like, everything seems to be falling into place, and at first when i got back from W&M i wasn't really sure if i was ready to close the door on duke, because that had been my dream for so long, and what if i'm just excited because this is the first college i've seen? but i am sooo at peace with it all, i can't even begin to describe it...now i just have to get in...