Trouble and Dorm Politics

The freshman class actually got into absolutely no trouble this year, which might not surprise you, but it surprises me. Last year our class got into so much trouble, we will have to largest group of people who won't graduate from my school. Maybe next years freshman's are a little more mischievous. A lot of people are hoping so because the school over-accepted students and there are going to be way too many students in that class. They might even turn some singles rooms into doubles. I might volunteer to be a a double room next year because the dorm I got was not my first choice.

There was some politics involved in the dorm assignments. Instead of everyone getting their choice, the faculty decided where people would go best, basically putting troublemakers in the places they could be watched and good students in the notoriously sketchy dorms, which is actually quite amusing because in the end, Andrew Kim was sent to the most jocking dorm on campus and Miranda and Stephenie, two of the most hippyish people I know, were sent to the most pop-culture clothes obsessed group of girls I know. Also, Katy a gigantic ogre of a girl got sent to that same dorm.

My dorm is just a random group, we will see how that works out. I did get the worst group of juniors and probably a ton of freshmen, but hopefully I can avoid them.

Kate

What They Don't Tell You On The Tour...

I guess this year more people got in trouble than other years. Some things go down in history like when four years ago some one got a DC for repeatedly putting Tabasco sauce in the waffle iron, but other things people just try to forget. Most of these happened this year.

This year was a combination of transgressions of academic honesty, drinking and being obvious and aiding and abetting an idiot on psychedelic mushrooms. Supposedly there is a higher standard for students enrolled in a private institution and cheating is supposedly nonexistent, although it happens anyway.

Similarly, we will never get locks on our doors because in such a community environment, who would dare steal? Well thieves of course. But back to cheating, it is quite a serious deal. Next year's president got caught cheating and well, isn't the president anymore. Some people got suspended and then reverse suspended, which means they get to come back after everyone has gone and make up the work they missed, this is pretty much the worst thing high school students can think of.

This year the number one class to cheat in was senior English in which students took their own work from their sophomore year and turned it in again. Their punishment was relatively mild since the rules on this sort of thing are nebulous (hazy, a word from my vocab energizers). Other classes that made the list were history and AP science classes.

In the same league as "cheating" is "the got caught drunk" category. This is usually a mix of party boys and girls who drank so much they needed to be taken to the hospital or wisely decided to pee outside as a teacher walked by. There's never much privacy and if you do something someone will know about it, guaranteed. the only question is who are they and what are they going to do about it?

Lastly, people on the less common drugs usually, depending on their involvement, just get expelled. A few days before finals several boys got caught on shrooms. Even the boys who let them use their room or gave them some water got in trouble. This also resulted in the first official expulsion of the year....

Kate