One thing I noticed when I came for a tour last year at Randolph College was the accents. I couldn't wait to go to a college in the South and get a Southern Accent. I always wanted to be a Southern Bell and that typical country girl. I rode horses growing up and always wanted to be a cowgirl so I would talk in a Southern accent, but Virginia is the real deal. They have real accents. My parents always told me that they would come home for breaks saying words like "yall" and having an accent. When I went home for Fall Break I said yall one time and my friends freaked out. They thought it was so cool but funny. I have noticed I have been saying yall and talking different. I think it depends on the people you hang out with if you want to get a bit of a southern accent. I hang out with quite a few people who are from Virginia or just the South in general so I caught on to the Southern talk pretty fast. My roomate hates when I say yall so I tend to say it a lot around her. I wonder what kind of accent I'll have by the time I graduate Randolph College. I hope I'm a Southern Bell.

I don't know if its just me but i find it very un comforting and strange that there is a jail right next to Randolph Colleges' campus. I cant even walk around town without seeing at least 3 police cars and a ton of police stations. Every time I go on a walk I think that a prisoner is going to escape and murder me or kidnap me but i know that just my mind exaggerating. I know this jail couldn't possibly be filled with murders or that bad of people but its still scary for eighteen year old girls like me. Whenever me and my friends go out at night we walk past the jail and the inmates wave or bang on the windows. Some people find it humorous but I think it is just flat out creepy. I remember when I first told my room mate about the jail and how close we were to it. She couldn't believe what I said and was in disbelief until I made her walk with me to see it. My mom said that when she went here that an inmate escaped at ran through Bowman (her dorm). I always tell people that story whenever we walk past the jail and they get so freaked out. The building is a tall beige colored, triangle shaped building at the front of the campus. It has creepy windows about a foot wide on all sides. I wish they would just take down the jail and relocate it somewhere else because it makes the campus look unsafe and sometimes makes me feel unsafe.