Especially during this hectic, test-crammed three-week sprint before break when life’s pace can seem overwhelming, I can look forward to the holidays with a greater appreciation of my family, school life, and even our inevitable fast food dinner.
Though the label “day student” exists at Deerfield to describe a student who sleeps at home rather than in a dorm room, I do not believe that the label determines a student’s social success.
It’s easy to get any day student riled up about “exclusion,” especially with the recent introduction of a more structured residential curriculum.
Andrew Slade reflects on how Deerfield has supported him through difficult times.
If we leave behind a Deerfield society where no one has the nerve or cares enough to let their own voice be heard, we allow our own point of view to decay.
Despite our political beliefs, we must understand that the promotion of ideologies that America has fought to avoid is becoming more and more popular among OWS protests.
Like other student-athletes looking to play the sport they love in college, I see the recruiting process as a just way to pursue and be admitted to any school I have the desire and ability to handle.
The people are real, as are their struggles, and it is time to revert to the way government used to be run, and should be run: of the people, by the people and for the people of the United States of America.
Sports carry far too much weight in a system supposedly meant to produce the most academically qualified students—people who will go on to be our society’s thinkers, revolutionaries, and problem solvers.
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