For someone who loves routine, boarding school life is amazing. Everything you do is scheduled and there is rarely time for spontaneity. After a while, it can get a little monotonous, but that's when you start to value the little things so much more. Some may think attending a boarding school must be so boring if these are the things that make the students happy, but these are truly seven great things that I no longer take for granted.
1. Wearing Shorts.
You never think of wearing shorts as a luxury until you are no longer able to do so. A girl gets tired of wearing dresses. And the poor guys -- they had to suffer wearing pants for three years until they reached the elite senior privilege of sporting shorts. A rough world we live in when the kids of tomorrow can't even wear shorts.
2. Delivery Service.
A wonderful magnificence that we have all been exposed to. God bless the delivery man bringing you $73 worth of Chinese Food at 2 p.m. on a Sunday when you are confined on campus and you're already hungry again after the three plates of food you had at brunch an hour ago.
3. Staying out until 10:00 p.m.
A totally average thing. 10 p.m. is child's play, basically mid-day for a college student. But when you get to stay out until 10 p.m. on a Saturday night at boarding school, that's three and a half more hours of socializing that you just don't have time for on a weekday.
4. Visiting Family.
When family comes to visit at college, it tends to mean stress and exhaustion, but at boarding school, it means going off campus. And eating at a real restaurant!
5. Away Games.
Similar to family visiting, away games mean going off campus. AND a chance of going to get food, if you can pull out the win.
6. School Breaks.
We all love school breaks, duh. It's probably one of the few above average things on this list. But multiply your love for winter and spring break by four and that's what you get at boarding school. Not one, not two, but FOUR weeks of break. A true gift that I didn't appreciate fully at the time and now regret because I will never have that much time off again.
7. Waffles
If you haven't realized it yet, students at boarding schools get excited about few things but food. More specifically, free food. Or food that you paid for through your tuition (same thing, though). I will wait in line for nothing. At my college, I get a salad every single day for lunch, because there is never a line at the salad bar. I detest wasting my time in lines. With that being said, when I was at boarding school, I once waited over 40 minutes in line in the dining hall for a damn waffle. B*tches love waffles.
