Second Home: Life in a Boarding School
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Introduction1Starting with You4Introduction4First Friends5First Home5Random Acts of Rooming7A Conversation with Roy11What Makes Cliques Click?14Getting to Know Yourself and Everyone Else17Finding and Keeping Friends22Settling In31My Finances31Make Your Room Your Own34Everything But the Kitchen Sink39Boy, I Miss My Home42Family Ties46Life as It's Lived in C-Dorm50Dorm Identity52Safety, Education, and Fun56Slumber59Settling into Relationships62Packing Your Cultural Knapsack62What Do I Bring to This Place? What Does This Place Bring to Me?68It's in Your Hands73Navigating Relationships82Falling into Place88Beyond the First Friends91Closer Than I Ever Imagined91Going Home93Outside the Classroom97Introduction97Athletics and the Outdoors98Getting in the Game98On and Off the Court101The Athletic Life103The Canoe108The Outdoor Advantage112Getting Your Hands Dirty114Brothers117On the Boat118On the River119Extracurricular Life121A Python Story121Spectating Is a Team Sport123Getting Active125The World of Theater at Thomas Jefferson School128The Active Life131Appalachian Spring: A Passionate Interest Becomes an Intellectual Endeavor135Keeping Your Balance140Citizenship, On and Off Campus145Try Something New145The Student Beyond the Classroom147Where Is the School?151You Mean I Have to Do What???155School Year Abroad1569/11159September 11, 2001161Residence Life at the School of Public Service165In and Around the Classroom169Introduction169The Classroom170The Rewards of Taking Academic Chances170The Peloponnesian War and Related Matters173How I Learned to Like Math175To Be a Teacher178More Than Just a Teacher181Potential Energy182Efficiency185Wooley Has Entered the Building190Knowing Faculty195The Real Resource195Happy Marriage199How Do I Make Connections with Faculty?203Where You Go for Practical Help208Curricular Matters211Among the Bright211What is a Residential Curriculum?--An Outreach Program?215Models for a Modern Age220Academic Mission226Reflecting and Moving On230In Whose Faces Do I Find Friendships Now?230What Did I Learn About Other People? Myself?234Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match238Ending with You and Your Family242Introduction242Introducing You to Your Future243What Kind of Education Should Colleges Expect the Twenty-first Century Student to Have?243Second Home246Some Hidden Costs of Independent Schooling248Thirty Questions252Diversity258E Pluribus Unum258Where Do Role Models Come From?261Community Values264What Is the Culture of a Boarding School?264The Religious Boarding School267Contact270Contact from the Mothership270A Chorus of Guiding Voices273Boundaries276Parents, Boarding Schools, and Students: Time to Lay Down the Law280Andover Story286Students, Parents, and Teachers288What Is the Right Amount of Participation in Your Daughter's Boarding School Experience?290Curricular Philosophies292A College Prep Program292What Is a Multicultural Course? A Multicultural Curriculum?296Focus301Conclusion: Two Life Experiences in Boarding School306Teaching at a Boarding School306Photographing Oneself308Conclusion311
