Kids being kids?

andover2016
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Now that I am a student at Andover (just finishing my second week) I think I can say a bit more about the atmosphere between students (girls especially) here. I think kids make friends much faster here than at non boarding schools, since we spend literally all day together you start making close friends within the first few weeks. Some of the dorms have a few close knit cliques forming, just because of proximity I think. Here everyone had to make completely new friends in a strange place and when that happens friendships become more intense, because these friends are basically a new family. It can probably feel very stressful to be surrounded by people you don’t know if you’ve had the same friends your whole life. This is what I think causes some very unusual actions by girls who are usually very nice people, even months after school had begun.