BoardingPOV

Dad:

I think Michelle thought it was a trap. “Your readers have been listening to you now for almost a year, talking about the boarding school application/admissions process – now they probably want to know what it’s REALLY like to live in that sort of environment”… “Maybe you should write about DATING this time”?
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Michelle:

The day we had a meeting for the freshman class about the student council, was when I realized it was something that interested me. I wanted to be in a leadership position earlier this time in my high school life. In my middle school, I had run as a representative at the [...]

Michelle:

This weekend we decided to play some tennis and go out for my friend Zack’s birthday! It was a great weekend although it was kind of short because we had an academic Saturday, which was, well… Bleh. It’s as if there was no weekend, but we worked around it.

On the actual day of [...]

Dorm rooms are a unique lifestyle!

Michelle:

Earlier, in January,  my friend and I decided to make a movie on iMovie…best experience EVER. I had gone to her house for the weekend because she had a second home in the area. She is a boarder from Jamaica! Her mom had come in for the weekend on business, so she invited [...]

Michelle: When people usually hear about boarding schools, they think they are very hard, and it is true, they are. Although, what most people don’t see is the other side to these marvelous schools! Yes, you do work for a whole lot of time, and yes it is a harder environment, and yes you leave [...]

Dad:

So I promised a “what you can do while waiting for your decision letters”, and I will say a few words on that in a moment. But first, I wanted to tell you about an unanticipated side effect of sending a daughter off to boarding school…

O.K., so she’s not really crazy.  Michelle’s [...]

Michelle:

It snowed here a few days ago a good few inches. It was like a storm of snow because it just wouldn’t stop snowing! Walking from class to class was just brutal. Usually the walk from the dorm to the dining hall isn’t bad at all, but I felt like I was walking a mile [...]

Michelle:

Have you ever sat at home and thought wow I have nothing to do? During the summer when you’ve done almost everything and are bored out of your mind, you sit and think what else is there to do? Or even on a weekend you find you’re stuck at home with nothing to [...]

Dad-

True to our promise in the “about” section of this blog (http://www.boardingpov.com/about/), we wanted to make sure we provide the unvarnished truth about Michelle’s boarding school experience.  Unlike all the other websites about boarding schools, we are not being written by educational consultants, or the schools themselves, on only the positive aspects of boarding [...]