Boarding School & Pressure

Altras
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:55:25 +0000

First - you will be attending a wonderful school. Congrats!

Your experience and journey in high school will be what you make of it. Your choice of how to approach that journey would be no different at your local public school, but you will certainly have more opportunities at Lville than your LPS.

Such decisions about approach will not limited to high school, so get used to it. You’ll make the same types of decisions over and over. How are you going to approach college, graduate school, professional school, your job, your marriage, being a parent, etc. Strictly results driven? Experiential? Or both?

If ALL you care about is getting into an Ivy college and you mold your life to that unwavering expectation, than fall in line with the others willing to sacrifice their mental health and valuable high school experience to attempt to do so.

If instead, you care about embracing learning (for its own sake, not strictly for grades), trying (and sometimes graciously failing at) new experiences, contributing broadly to the Lville community and making lifelong friendships…than your brains (and heart and soul) will be intact.

There is no foregone conclusion about what will happen to you at Lville. It will be what you make of it.