School

i was wondering if someone with boarding school experience could describe to me a bit about the real atmosphere of a boarding school. freedoms, restrictions, attitudes of students…
i’ve already gone to a private school so i understand more challenging academics. i just really need a big change in my life.

It depends what boarding school you go to. The Jesuit and military based ones will be pretty strict. I went to a benedictine catholic boarding school and thought it was great. You get to live with your friends and have the same freedoms you ordinarily would have on weekends. Some people would from time to time get pretty homesick but most people I lived with preferred it to being at home. Except of course the bad kids that hated school in general. They tend not to get invited back since more enrollments require yearly invitations. The only problems that can ever arrise are with some of the older kids picking on the freshman since they live together.