1. Mandatory breakfast and dinner

Breakfast every morning before 7:45 a.m. Dinner every night in uniform before 6:00 p.m. Yes, even after your 5:30 p.m. practice runs over.

2. Study Hall

Hide your cell phones, your Netflix, and your Facebook tab. Studying for 2 hours each night became a habit. What else would you rather be doing between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.?

3. Free time

At night, after study hall, we were allowed to walk around outside or grab snacks at snack bar. Some of my best memories were squeezed into the 30 minutes we were typically given. Just be back in your dorm by 10 p.m.

4. Lights out

Sometimes we'd be in bed by 11, sometimes we'd pretend to be in bed by 11. Just don't wake the dorm parents up.

5. Dorm Bonding

Or more commonly referred to as "mandatory fun." As much as people loved to hate these times; bowling, amusement park trips, pro basketball games, pumpkin carving, and countless embarrassing "bonding" experiments weren't so bad.

6. Work Details

Work details were for both day and boarding students. However, there were many more work detail options for boarding students. I mean, we lived there. 24/7. Not to mention, many more opportunities to screw up.

7. Checking grades after dinner

Every couple weeks, your name would be posted on a list if you didn't make grades. If you didn't make them for that week, that meant study hall is no longer in your dorm...instead it's in the library with teachers monitoring your every move!

8. Pike Day

Our one day of freedom! No permission needed to run to CVS or Kroger!!!! Freedom to leave campus, if only for an hour or two.

9. Dorm Parents

Your parents away from parents! They were there to take you shopping, cook pancakes, cheer you up, take pictures of you at school dances, and be your cheerleaders! They probably heard way more than they wanted to even when they weren't trying to... they did live below us.

10. Lifelong Friendships

You meet people from other states, other countries, other backgrounds. It's truly a once in a lifetime experience. It's hard to say bye, but the bond you created over the years will keep you connected. After all, you gained 70+ brothers and sisters... how could you forget them?!