non-outdoorsy type happy in Walla Walla?

rix
Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:59:39 +0000

My daughter is open to a lot different experiences and is not anti-outdoorsy – but her idea of a good time definitely includes sipping a frappucino or two while doing some serious shopping. She LOVES Whitman. We live in a city within a big metropolitan area. When we first drove to Walla Walla from Seattle or Portland, past the miles and miles of high desert nothingness followed by miles and miles of farmlands, she thought there was nothing that could compel her to go to school there. After falling in love with Whitman (second visit, not the first), she happily noted that Walla Walla had a Macys and a Starbucks. She is never at a loss for something to do at Whitman. I think students at colleges in more remote areas do fine if they are happy with the school otherwise. If she were at a school in a more metropolitan area, I’m sure she would take advantage of it but she seems to get her fill when she’s home for breaks. I don’t know if the location has anything to do with it, maybe more so the size – but kids with different perspectives seem to mix fairly readily there. There are plenty of outdoorsy types and not-so-outdoorsy types. My daughter is in a sorority, and two of the girls in her pledge class live in Tamarac House, which is a interest house for seriously outdoorsy students.