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To most of its [[#alumni|alums]], the most awesome [[study abroad|study-away]] semester program ever. Involves going down to Mystic, Connecticut, living in houses of 4-6 7 people from various liberal arts colleges, where you cook cooking (and sometimes maybe even cleancleaning) for yourself, across from a museum with three tall ships and several hundred smaller ones. Also involves a 10-day trip on a 133-foot tall ship, a week-long trip to California or Washington Statethe West Coast, and a 4-day trip to Louisiana or the Chesapeake Bay. Also copious time spent doing individual research in a marsh, river, beach, rocky intertidal zone, or whatever coastal environment you prefer. And The other three major research papers will have you calling fishery commissions (policy), reading Melville's non-Moby Dick-sized maritime stories (literature), and learning about marine policyturning the pages of a 200-year-old ship's log with gloved hands in the museum collections (history). All Super-interdisciplinary, all with amazingly always-there-for-you professors. Super-interdisciplinary.

Williams College alumni of the Williams-Mystic program include Andrea Burke '06, Evan Chadwick '06, Tyler Corson-Rikert '06, Candice Corvetti '07, Eliot Crafton '06, [[Diana Davis]] '07, Elizabeth Doran '06, Emily Fertig '06, Jamie Hensel '05, [[Ariel Heyman]] '08, Elise Leduc '06, Sara Martin '07, Abby McBride '06, Jane McCamant '05, Christine M. Marshall '08, Katie Montgomery '07, Jim Prevas '06, Macy Radloff '06, Alden Robinson '06, Kate Scheider '07, Eleanor Schmidt '06, and Erin Weekley '06, Randy Dorf '09, Fathimah Musthaq '09, Libby Miles '09, Susan Raich '09, Ale Jochum '09, Emily Flynn '09, Jordan Landers '09, Randy Dorf '09, Nontombi Kraai '09, Sunmi Yang '08, Emily Barrios '10, Lizzy Brickley '10, Bex Gilbert '10, Allie Goldberg '10, and Abby Martin '11. Several of these have become real, live sailors.