Boarding School Research Paper

“You are going to get a major.” The Dean uttered strongly. Feeling like I just took a bullet to the chest, I responded “I understand your decision making.” I came to The Lawrenceville School as a new third former, with hopes and dreams of succeeding in every aspect of boarding school life. Before coming here I dreamed of coming in and being handed a perfect gpa and commitment letter from a college for hockey on a silver platter; soon I realized this would require an absurd amount of work. I came in as a ignorant sophomoric child and now I’m on the track to getting better. Today, I work hard to get the best grades i possibly can, and I constantly train to become the best athlete I can be. There is only one problem: I broke a major school rule …show more content…
Examples of majors are doing illegal drugs, violating rules of parietals, or cheating. My major in case you were wondering is for plagiarising. First I would like to address the absurdly ironic rules of the Lawrenceville School. Lawrenceville operates on a so-called “two-strike” policy. If you violate a major school rule you receive a period of probation, but will not be kicked out of the school. Probation generally lasts a year, and basically what probation entails is if you happen to break another major school rule while on probation you get asked to leave the school permanently. That is not all though, you may receive two different types of majors: silent and non silent. Basically one does not matter for shit and the other goes to every college you apply to you. You may ask what classifies as a silent and non silent major, and I wish I could give you that information, but sadly I can not, nor can anyone at that matter. I have heard very many stories of kids getting silent majors as I have heard of a few non silent ones, including myself, and I can tell you that no one in this school could give you a concrete answer on what major school violations get you which type of