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Attended Boarding School |
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Football, Orchestra, Anime Club, Otaku Lounge(Officer), Shooting Club |
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| 1.) What do you think makes your school unique relative
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| From talking with students that went to other prep schools I think one thing that is good about SPS is that everybody boards. There are no day students and even all but a couple of teachers live on campus. I think everybody has a much better chance to bond and that there is a much greater feeling of community when everyone is there all the time. Everybody's on the same page and everybody's thoughts and concerns revolve around the same places and people. It seems to me the existence of both boarding students' and day students' cultures was a detriment to my friends' prep school experiences. |
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| 2.) What was the best thing that happened to you in boarding school? |
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| The best thing that happened to me was my junior year dorm. I forged a really intense friendship with a bunch of guys there around Japanese animation and computer games. The conversations and the jokes and the late nights and the crazy projects. It was incredible. I don't think I could have got to know those guys so well in any other environment than SPS. |
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| 3.) What might you have done differently during your boarding school experience? |
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| I would have gotten to know more people of the bat. Some of the people who became my best friends in my second year I didn't even know in my first.
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| 4.) What did you like most about your school? |
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| The people. Interesting, smart people from all over the world and you'll live with them for multiple years. |
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| 5.) Do you have any final words of wisdom for visiting or incoming students to your school? |
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| Load up on ice cream bars at the Upper(It's called the Upper not Coit Hall.) and get a lock box for the dorm fridge(the food thieves are horrendous.) The Kitt dorms are horribly small compared to all the others but the faculty in Kitt I was good. I never took one of his courses but Mr. Braden in a colorful guy with a strong personality. Dr. Lattimer was a great humanities teacher. Ancient Greek with Ms. Barker was wonderful and I would recommend it to anybody with a classics bent. Also ask about the School Year Abroad program that sends kids every year to schools in China, Spain, Italy, and Frace. I went to China for my senior year and it was great. |
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Describe the academics at your school - what did you like most about it? |
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| The academics at SPS are intense and some people burn out but if you can deal with it you'll learn a lot. I really enjoyed ancient Greek and humanities. Humanities is a combination of History, Literature, Art, and Philosophy (the mixture depends on your teacher), which is unique to St. Paul's. It's a double credit course and can be quite difficult especially if you aren't used to doing a lot of writing. The difficulty of the course really depends on which teacher you get. The teachers at SPS are awesome. |
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Describe the athletics at your school - what did you like most about it? |
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| There're mandatory sports for the first two and a half years at SPS but there are lots of intramural club sports teams and a self-directed exercise program for those of you who aren't big athletes. They are building a new gym so I can't tell you much about the facilities.
Our hockey is sick good or so I've been told. I think American Hockey started at SPS or something. (Can you tell I'm not a big sports fan?) |
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Describe the arts program at your school - what did you like most about it? |
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| The musical faculty in my experience were all really competent and into what they were doing. I had good experiences with one-on-one musical instruction and concert opportunities made possible by my school. My friends that were a lot more into music than I was had a very intense group identity and excellent relations with the music faculty and really thrived at St. Paul's. |
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Describe the extracurriculars offered at your school - what did you like most about it? |
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| Unfortunately the cool old shooting range in the basement is gone since they are building a new gym but I really enjoyed the Shooting Club. I was also able to try some skeet and archery at SPS which was great.
For those who like the outdoors, the school owns an unusually large amount of property and you could wander for a long time in the woods around school and run into all sorts of cool stuff. |
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Describe the dorm life in your school - what did you like most about it? |
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| My experience with the dorms was good. I thought the rooms were for the most part adequately big and there were enough single rooms. I really enjoyed living in the same building with my best friends which is probably my biggest reason for recommending boarding school over day school. All grades live mixed in together in the dorms. I didn't really run into any hazing or too much unpleasantness in my time at SPS. The in-dorm faculty were helpful and supportive. The room selection process at the end of the year was exeedingly stressful and the results far from completely desirable. Maybe that has changed. By the way, the dorm room doors don't lock which is a big pain. |
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Describe the dining arrangements at your school. |
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| The food at the Upper was great. There were always lots of choices so I never understood when people couldn't find something they wanted to eat. On the downside or upside, depending on how you look at it, there's a big pastry bar at every meal and a frozen yogurt machine, not to mention the refrigerator that about two times out of ten they have stocked with popsicles and ice cream sandwiches. I am full of praise for the dining hall food and staff.
On the other hand I didn't like Seated Meal. That's where the whole school gets together for a sit down meal twice a week. Formal attire is required and some students have to work as waiters and they assign rotating seating so you can't sit with your friends. The foods usually not as good and you have to pass it around and go and get more food if a dish is finished. Nobody at your table can leave until the table faculty head gives the word. I found it a waste of time but others like the chance to meet students and faculty they didn't know very well and hobnob in the lounge after the meal. |
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| 1.) Describe the school's town and surrounding area. |
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| I liked Concord. Not exceedingly interesting and I didn't get out too much of the time but it was nice release to go to town for a few hours on a weekend. The school started a bus system that runs people back and forth from Concord on the weekends which is a great improvment from the days when you had to pay 8 dollars both ways to pick up some crummy soda at Shaws. I'm embarrased to talk about it but I had a lot of good times hanging out at the mall with my friends eating horrible chinese food and cruising the movie and book stores. |
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Describe the social life at your school - what did you like most about it? |
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| I really enjoyed the social life at school. I made a lot of great friends and it was nice to live in the same dorm or a short distance from all of them. It was a great blessing to spend so much time with all of them.
The school puts on a lot of dances and themed weekends through the dorms and clubs on campus. They seem pretty well funded and planned but that was never really my scene. |
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| 7:30 AM | wake, shower, get ready (earlier if I wanted to eat breakfast) | | 8:00 AM | Daily Chapel | | 8:30 AM | Classes begin | | 12:45 AM | Lunch | | 1:30 PM | Classes begin again | | 3:00 PM | Classes out | | 3:30 PM | Sports or Fitness | | 5:30 PM | Get out of sports, shower | | 6:00 PM | Dinner | | 6:30 PM | back at dorm. hang out and relax for a while | | 7:15 PM | Study the time for going to other-sex dorm rooms starts about now too | | 9:00 PM | Finish study and visit friends or hang out in dorm | | 10:00 PM | Check in with faculty on duty (no leaving dorm after check in) finish homework or hang out | | 11:00 PM | sleep | |
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| 10:30 AM | wake up | | 11:00 AM | Brunch. Ice cream waffles and Lunch food. Rest for .an hour until indegestion subsides | | 12:00 AM | Read or hang out, usually a little low-intensity study until dinner | | 6:30 PM | Dinner with friends in the dinning hal | | 7:00 PM | Finnally get down to doing the homework for Monday. | | 9:00 PM | Stop working and watch a movie or talk to friends in the dorm. | | 11:00 PM | Check in and then finish homework | | 12:30 AM | Sleep | |
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