Monday September 16th

I went on college visits over the weekend, although it was really Saturday through Wednesday. I flew to Washington D.C., and then we drove down to Williamsburg, Virginia and, after that, Charlottesville, Virginia. We then drove back to up to D.C. to fly home. I saw the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, and Georgetown University. They were all great schools with beautiful campuses, and I will definitely apply to all three. Virginia has a lot of sites of historical interest from the colonial and revolutionary period of American history, so we also visited a few tourist locations. We went to Colonial Williamsburg which was, surprisingly, not tacky at all. After touring UVa we went to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. It was pretty interesting. When I came back to Kansas after my trip I was distraught because compared to these places Kansas is the armpit of the world.