As Charles Dickens said, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..." I don't think any sentence has ever better summed up my experience at boarding school. It's the type of love/hate relationship that you can't really understand unless you were a boarder, yourself. There were ups and there were downs but, call me crazy, I miss it every day.
1. 11 p.m. check-in on weekends was less than ideal.
2. The campus was gorgeous.
3. You could always count on some late night shenanigans.
4. The highlight of my week was when the dorm faculty served food at check-in.
5. We had to sign out every time we left campus.
6. My dorm was the best place to go home to at the end of the day.
7. Administrators scaled the sides of building #spidey style just to bust kids.
8. Someone got suspended or expelled almost on a monthly basis.
9. When the dining hall was on a bad streak, you found yourself surviving on PB&Js and/or bowls of rice alone for a week straight.
10. You could always go shopping for an outfit in someone else's wardrobe.
11. There was no privacy.
12. ...But I got to live in a dorm with my best friends in the world.
