This page first appeared during fall final exams:
A few years ago, the faculty voted in an exam week that spreads six academic blocks over five days, and decreed that no student should take more than one exam a day. The outcome is that a much higher ratio of kids is able to demonstrate mastery of subject material. On the other hand, in order to achieve, we all need to balance healthy stress with the usual nonsense.
The past few years have proved true a shocking and revolutionary concept advanced by our Head, Steve Wilkins: in the right environment, anyone and everyone can far exceed predicted performance and expectations. Norms and bell curves doom half the population to mediocrity and failure. (Steve actually took this postulate to its logical extreme: everyone here could abolutely master any subject if we found the right situations.) Below, two boarders goofing off in the pistachio-painted pit we call the Day Student "Lounge."
There's even time to buy some chips and a Jolt at Jake's Market:
