As a residential school, we take responsibility for student life in a holistic manner. Of the twenty-four hours in a day, we (hopefully) spend a third of them asleep. But what of the remaining sixteen? Well, we're a college preparatory school, so....



...we're cranking on academic work.


 

In fact, if we add study hours to class hours, school work comprises approximately another third of our precious time. So that leaves us to account for another eight hours or so....

 

The term "afternoon activities" covers a truly extensive set of programs that command two to three hours, including team practices....

 

As well as contests....

 

Will scores against Tilton.



Students who elect "pin room" facilitate the Athletic Department in a variety of ways. Bruno-pier offers encouragement to JV2 soccer while serving as ball boy.

 

With no game Saturday, girls' JV soccer jogs over to Emmons Field to offer a cheer to a boys' team.

 

A hard-working Woodsmen team enjoyed a swim at Elbow Pond and hiked to a little-known campus destination: the yurt. 

 

Now I'd like to consider the definition of "residential life," a term people at boarding schools employ with great frequency. It is a mistake, I would argue, to limit this concept to free time and dorm life.

 

We take proper responsibility for residential life when we apply the term to every moment...every hour...every day.



Hanging outside of the Wise Center at dusk, hiking to the The Cabin on a Sunday afternoon, posting on Facebook and taking a nap are all legitimate activities, and--as responsible adults--our task is to comprehend, anticipate and enrich the options available to students.