If there was ever a school that matched my personality, it would be Washington and Lee. Its small, traditional campus prefers a warm, but not a "sweat your socks off" climate, just as I do. It is a school that was instituted on the backs of Southern history and remains as a breeding ground for the traditional past. In reading Southern literature this fall, including the works of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, the themes of the South became increasingly relevant and applicable to me. For instance, we learned about the importance of one's identity to the inner character of a southerner and how without a sufficient identity, he or she will not thrive. Washington and Lee University is a place that undoubtedly has the potential to induce nostalgia
