St. Mary's

St. Mary's was the very first summer site, from 1979 to 1981. Many traditions of CTY (known as OTID then) probably originated here, including American Pie. In 1982 St Mary's was replaced by the sister sites of Carlisle and Lancaster. It reopened at some point (90s?) but was phased out again after the summer of 2005, and its students either migrated to other sites or did not return.

Location

St. Mary's is located at St. Mary's College of Maryland in beautiful St. Mary's City, Maryland, adjacent to Chesapeake Bay. St. Mary's is extremely humid in the summer, 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 were under constant renovation, and thus, the dorms for CTY 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 had their own lounge, microwave, etc. There was also a bathroom in each section. Each bathroom was designed after a personal bathroom, and had an actual shower and locking bathroom door. This arrangement caused multiple fights for the bathrooms in the mornings.

The male dorms were located on Lewis Quad, which also served as the location for Meet Market. The female dorms served as breeding ground 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 to walk the farthest. They passed the male dorms, crossed a small desert, passed a pond, schlepped up a hill, passed another pond where two male ducks were constantly attempting to mount each other, went under a bridge, and then finally arrived at the dining hall. The total distance as measured by RA Moana 05.1 was exactly one mile.

Every day there were different types of ethnic foods, and the waffle maker. Batter was set out and students could 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.

Closure

In 2006 the site was removed from service, by Baltimore. Students hypothesize the site was closed due to the awful weather, poor campus layout, staff/administrative issues, or a lack of interest from students (despite the delicious food). No one is really certain of the exact reason for the closure. Nonetheless, they suggest the reader protest and call because, "Believe me, you want this site back!"

Misc

In the second session of 2005, Gender Bender Day was removed, but during Week Two (Spirit Week) things like Pajama Day, Inside-Out Day, Toga Day, and Dress-Your-RA Day continued to occur. Cultural phenomena included Mao and the Little Green Gopher song (Serkan's hall '05.2). It had its own unique traditions, such as Sex in a Pan, and Hill Rolling Rash (Hill roll at your own risk!). There were also some pretty crazy frogs there. It smelled like wetlands on the way to the dining hall. Unoriginal activities often occurred, and Passionfruit was only established in 2005, when three alums of the program who were on staff organized it. Sadly, this tradition did not last as it began in the last year that the site remained open.

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 one walked directly past it, was a historic landmark of St. Mary's, and possibly the only landmark of St. Mary's.

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 (a.k.a. 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