Just for fun: Adelphi was on Glee!

EmmyBet
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:09:08 +0000

Yes, she is. All of the great things we hoped for have been true. The classes and profs are great, the productions first-rate, and access to the city is a breeze. She respects her peers and has lots of friends. I am firmly convinced it will just get better and better for her. The juniors who were at LAMDA last semester are back, having had a tremendous experience.

She has also found the Honors College meets her needs excellently for high-level academics. There have been disappointments, mostly in residential life and location, the two things she knew she was compromising on. Now that she’s in a routine, she is happy and satisfied, but it is a bit difficult for an out-of-town student there. She had to work to deal with some limitations in their food services, shuttles around town (nothing is in walking distance), lack of general campus activities on weekends. Everything we were told is true, though - the theatre kids are too busy to be bored and lonely, once things get going!

I think part of the adjustment for some of these kids to a BFA is that they probably had more well-rounded lives in HS - D was almost always involved in a play, but she also sang in several music groups, played instruments, etc. I think she was caught kind of short when she got to school and realized she couldn’t schedule activities that she was used to, like being in the choir, and that was very sad for her. But she does have time for socializing, and the theatre kids definitely know how to have fun in their own way!