BoardingPOV

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: 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Michelle-
Recently, something terrible happened in my dorm. I was appalled when I heard from my friend what had happened to her computer. Here’s how the story goes:
One day, when we were at squash tryouts, someone poured water all over her computer. When she came back to her room after tryouts, which ended late in the [...]

Boarding School – Life on Campus: I was nervous about meeting my roommate…

Michelle:
When you first get on campus you get the butterflies in your stomach from all the excitement, but also from the nervousness. When I arrived onto the campus I was pointing out each and every building as if I had just been here yesterday. I couldn’t believe it had been a year since I’d been [...]