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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Terrible location.[/quote]

Not everyone wants city life. I loved going to college in a rural location. 
I didn't have to worry about crime on campus for once in my life, it was freeing as a young woman.[/quote]

The base has more influence on the area than the College.[/quote]

A few years ago I visited St. Mary's as it was part of a school field trip my then 4th grader was taking. I was excited to see it but when I got there I literally knew that if I'd had to attend, I would have slashed my wrists. It is RURAL and isolated and small. You have a 2.5 hour drive to civilization along one back-country road. No thank you. [/quote]

Huh? Is this the campus by Frederick, MD? It's not THAT remote. And certainly not isolated from humanity. It's very small but really pretty. And some kids want that.[/quote]

No, it is in Southern Maryland near Leonardtown which, btw, is a bed-room community for the DC area.  Leonardtown is a 20 min drive; Lexington Park is 15 mins; Solomon's Island are similar distances.  It is a 2 hourish drive from DC on major highways.  If you were driving around on a country back road for 2.5 you were very lost.  Colgate and Hamilton are also in the middle of nowhere but no one complains about that.

And for the person who said drinking is the thing to do at SMCM, that's the case at any school.  The school runs a van shuttle for anyone who has had too much to drink and needs a ride home.  It's a great work-study job (my dc did it for two years)[/quote]

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