Second Home: Life in a Boarding School Book

	Introduction	1
	Starting with You	4
	Introduction	4
	First Friends	5
	First Home	5
	Random Acts of Rooming	7
	A Conversation with Roy	11
	What Makes Cliques Click?	14
	Getting to Know Yourself and Everyone Else	17
	Finding and Keeping Friends	22
	Settling In	31
	My Finances	31
	Make Your Room Your Own	34
	Everything But the Kitchen Sink	39
	Boy, I Miss My Home	42
	Family Ties	46
	Life as It's Lived in C-Dorm	50
	Dorm Identity	52
	Safety, Education, and Fun	56
	Slumber	59
	Settling into Relationships	62
	Packing Your Cultural Knapsack	62
	What Do I Bring to This Place? What Does This Place Bring to Me?	68
	It's in Your Hands	73
	Navigating Relationships	82
	Falling into Place	88
	Beyond the First Friends	91
	Closer Than I Ever Imagined	91
	Going Home	93
	Outside the Classroom	97
	Introduction	97
	Athletics and the Outdoors	98
	Getting in the Game	98
	On and Off the Court	101
	The Athletic Life	103
	The Canoe	108
	The Outdoor Advantage	112
	Getting Your Hands Dirty	114
	Brothers	117
	On the Boat	118
	On the River	119
	Extracurricular Life	121
	A Python Story	121
	Spectating Is a Team Sport	123
	Getting Active	125
	The World of Theater at Thomas Jefferson School	128
	The Active Life	131
	Appalachian Spring: A Passionate Interest Becomes an Intellectual Endeavor	135
	Keeping Your Balance	140
	Citizenship, On and Off Campus	145
	Try Something New	145
	The Student Beyond the Classroom	147
	Where Is the School?	151
	You Mean I Have to Do What???	155
	School Year Abroad	156
	9/11	159
	September 11, 2001	161
	Residence Life at the School of Public Service	165
	In and Around the Classroom	169
	Introduction	169
	The Classroom	170
	The Rewards of Taking Academic Chances	170
	The Peloponnesian War and Related Matters	173
	How I Learned to Like Math	175
	To Be a Teacher	178
	More Than Just a Teacher	181
	Potential Energy	182
	Efficiency	185
	Wooley Has Entered the Building	190
	Knowing Faculty	195
	The Real Resource	195
	Happy Marriage	199
	How Do I Make Connections with Faculty?	203
	Where You Go for Practical Help	208
	Curricular Matters	211
	Among the Bright	211
	What is a Residential Curriculum?--An Outreach Program?	215
	Models for a Modern Age	220
	Academic Mission	226
	Reflecting and Moving On	230
	In Whose Faces Do I Find Friendships Now?	230
	What Did I Learn About Other People? Myself?	234
	Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match	238
	Ending with You and Your Family	242
	Introduction	242
	Introducing You to Your Future	243
	What Kind of Education Should Colleges Expect the Twenty-first Century Student to Have?	243
	Second Home	246
	Some Hidden Costs of Independent Schooling	248
	Thirty Questions	252
	Diversity	258
	E Pluribus Unum	258
	Where Do Role Models Come From?	261
	Community Values	264
	What Is the Culture of a Boarding School?	264
	The Religious Boarding School	267
	Contact	270
	Contact from the Mothership	270
	A Chorus of Guiding Voices	273
	Boundaries	276
	Parents, Boarding Schools, and Students: Time to Lay Down the Law	280
	Andover Story	286
	Students, Parents, and Teachers	288
	What Is the Right Amount of Participation in Your Daughter's Boarding School Experience?	290
	Curricular Philosophies	292
	A College Prep Program	292
	What Is a Multicultural Course? A Multicultural Curriculum?	296
	Focus	301
	Conclusion: Two Life Experiences in Boarding School	306
	Teaching at a Boarding School	306
	Photographing Oneself	308
	Conclusion	311