Comparing the top LACs' "vibes"?

Endicott
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:23:47 +0000

Washington and Lee is fascinating. It has a very strong honor code, so (or so they say) you could leave your ipod in the dining hall and no one would touch it. VERY Southern, old-fashioned, conservative, fratty. Charming little town with lots of VMI cadets walking around it. Lots of ma’aming and sirring. Convocations in a chapel where there is a very large marble statue in front of Robert E. Lee lying semi-recumbant with a blanket over him–he is buried in a crypt underneath which you can visit, and if you walk outside, you can also pay your respects to his horse. Plus, if that isn’t enough Confederate Horse stuff for you, you can go to VMI in the same town (very bizarre fortressy place) and see Stonewall Jackson’s horse, stuffed, in a free museum right on the VMI campus. And Stonewall Jackson’s raincoat with the hole from the bullet that killed him. There are tons of frats and some secret societies, like the Cadaver Society, where people dress up (men, I guess) in capes and skeleton masks and make mischief at night. It’s a whole other world!! Great academics and advising, I believe.