Outside of that, Jen Jolin has pretty much put her six-month stint as one of the first women to attend Virginia Military Institute behind her. It was good for me. A year ago, Jolin and 29 other women joined VMI's first coed class. Jolin and six others went home early. The women include 14 Virginians, mostly from Northern Virginia and the Richmond and Tidewater areas.
None is from the Roanoke Valley.
Four are from California, with others coming from as far away as Kenya, Taiwan and Romania. Jolin, meanwhile, will begin commuting to Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, and continue working at a pizza parlor in her hometown of Monterey. Academically, she'll be starting over as a freshman. Her grades at VMI were so poor she didn't even request to have them transferred. They were part of the reason Jolin decided to leave.