College of William & Mary

Crazy Virginia Weather

It's hot when you arrive in august, but stays gorgeous through November. When you come back in January it's chilly but manageable. Snows once or twice per year. This past year, we had 3 inches of snow and then 3 days later it was 80 degrees...

Unpredictable and Annoying

The campus regularly floods from the amount of rainfall. People have lost their flip flops from their feet. Rain boots are a must - even sneakers won't hold up to ankle-deep water.

One day it will be sunny and dry, the next there's a hurricane (which, BTW, literally happened last fall). The weather is all over the place and hard to dress for.

Never Felt Unsafe

WM is a small school. You hear a lot about the 'community of trust' (to the point where it gets irritating), but that means nobody thinks twice about dropping their wallets on a table during the dinner rush and leaving to get food. Nobody worries about getting their wallet stolen while they're out of sight. People regularly say they found $20 bills, iPods, iPhones, and laptops on the sidewalk and ask whose they are on the Lost and Found Facebook page, and nobody claims the lost items are theirs unless the item actually belongs to them.