This is the time for lingering conversations over meals and quality time with a book in front of the fireplace. For some, though, WSP is spent getting drunk to fill the hours of free time. If nothing else, WSP teaches that you are responsible for how you spend your time. A small college inevitably has limitations. Williams is strong because it's such a small, self-contained community, but this can also be a liability.
Advanced undergrads have no opportunity to take graduate-level courses.
And some courses that could be offered are not, or are offered only every other year. Though the Admissions Office will never admit it, most Williams students play a sport at the college level. In some ways, this emphasis hampers the development of other aspects of the community, as few athletes are involved in other extracurriculars. Trying to change this aspect of the student body has proven to be very hard. Year after year, athletes choose Williams while actors and artists feel that their place in the community would be very small and go elsewhere.