St. Mary's

Location

St. Mary's is located at St. Mary's College of Maryland in beautiful St. Mary's City, Maryland. It is also conveniently located in the middle of nowhere. St. Mary's is extremely humid, the dorms and buildings are ridiculously spread apart, and a walk to the dining hall is like schlepping across deserts and mountains.

Dorms

The dorms are under constant renovation, and thus the dorms for habitation have never been the same. Each floor belonged to one hall. Each floor was then separated into two sections consisting of three rooms each. Every three rooms got their own lounge, microwave, etc. There was also a bathroom in each section. Each bathroom has an actual shower and has a locking door, designed after a personal bathroom. That also meant that people fought for the showers in the morning.

The male dorms formed a quad that serves as a "Meet Market". The female dorms served as breeding grounds for the famously ubiquitous frogs.

In 2003, the supposed girl-to-guy ratio was roughly something like 1:10.

Food

The food was amazing. However, the walk to the dining hall was excruciating. The girls had walk the farthest. They had to pass the male dorms, cross a small desert, pass a pond, schlep up a hill, pass another pond where two male ducks were constantly attempting to mount each other, go under a bridge, and then finally arrive at the dining hall. Total distance (as measured by RA Moana 05.1): exactly one mile. At Lancaster, one merely has to walk across the quad.

Every day there were different types of ethnic foods. Then there is the waffle maker. Batter is set out and students can make their own waffles. There were also a salad bar, ice cream, cereal, and self-serve sandwich ingredients. Most days, there were pizza slices the size of a thumbnail. (Edit: yeah a dinosaur thumbnail! That pizza was huuuge). It was extremely delicious, most notably the white pizza.

History

St. Mary's was the first site of CTY. However, as of 2006, the site has been removed from service. The closure of the site was an administrative decision by Baltimore. Various hypotheses about the reason include: the awful weather; poor campus layout for the program (buildings are too spread out!); staff/administrative issues; lack of interest from students (The food was better than any other site, though). No one is really sure which one or ones truly influenced this decision. But protest and call because believe me you want this site back!

Misc

As of the second session 2005, Gender Bender Day had been removed, but during Week Two, which is dubbed Spirit Week, things like pajama day, inside out day, toga day, and of course dress your RA day occurred. Mao is a phenomenon, as is the Little Green Gopher song (Serkan's hall '05.2 performed that if you remember) . Unoriginal activities are known to occur, and Passionfruit wasn't started there till 2005, when three alums of the program who were on staff organized it. However, it has its own unique traditions, such as Sex in a Pan. Watch out for Hill Rolling Rash! Hill roll at your own risk! There are also some pretty crazy frogs there. It also smells like wetlands when you are walking to meals (Brackish water. The swamps create their own food, for God's sake.). To tell the truth St. Mary's was a great site.

Frank Wang was at St. Mary's 05', though it is not known where he was before that. Plotting, perhaps. (Note: he wasn't nearly as notorious as he is at Lancaster)

The Bell, always famous for going off as you walked directly past it, was a historic landmark of St. Mary's. Actually, it was the only landmark.

The site was much "younger" in terms of student age than most of the other sites. In 2005, for example, there were only about half a dozen nomores involved with the program at St Mary's.

• Nixxi 03.1 Latin, wrote everything up to history's blurb.
• Alex 05.1 CompSci, edited this page to mention that FRANKWANG was there 05.
• Jimmy (aka Captain Spaz) edited this page to show the true greatness of St. Mary's
• Peter, The Man, fixed the gender bender comment to show the pride of the few cross-dressers
• Mike, Car '06.2 edited to show how much he loved the site.
• Sidney, STM 03.2-05.2, wrote the original page.
• Emily 05.1 Crypto added the most important details