Welcome, incoming sophomores, to the Illinois Math and Science Academy. This place will hopefully not only be your school, but also your home for the next three years. IMSA is going to offer you a level of freedom you may never have experienced before. However, it is still a high school, and has its restrictions. We may be some of the best students in the entire state of Illinois, but we are still teenagers. You are about to have this drilled into your minds. For the next week, and I speak from experience, you will be walking between the lecture hall and the auditorium several times a day listening to presentation after presentation about the same thing: rules.
IMSA has plenty of rules, and almost every single one has a story behind it (ask …show more content…
IMSA tries to enforce this by placing an in-room curfew at eleven o’clock. However, this is the time when you will likely begin your homework, after wasting an entire evening and sneaking out of study hours. The homework you get encourages, even requires, collaboration, and you will undoubtedly need help completing your work at times. You will need to break in-room, for the sake of your grades at least. When you do so, avoid getting caught. In-room violations are the most committed crime on the IMSA campus. Residential counselors have wizened up to the many ways that people break in-room. It now takes a great amount of skill to successfully sneak into another room after eleven …show more content…
The moment the rules begin taking away from your IMSA experience, they must be broken. Never get caught breaking the rules. It is not worth the punishments that come with getting caught, from humiliation to cleaning. Many have mastered this art. A few have learned this rule the hard way, and I am one of these people. I am ashamed to admit that in my earlier days, when I was but a naïve sophomore, I got caught twice for an in-room violation. I give you this advice to try to make sure none of you have to go through what I did. Follow my advice, and you will remember the next three years as the best of your life. Just don’t get caught in the
IMSA has plenty of rules, and almost every single one has a story behind it (ask …show more content…
IMSA tries to enforce this by placing an in-room curfew at eleven o’clock. However, this is the time when you will likely begin your homework, after wasting an entire evening and sneaking out of study hours. The homework you get encourages, even requires, collaboration, and you will undoubtedly need help completing your work at times. You will need to break in-room, for the sake of your grades at least. When you do so, avoid getting caught. In-room violations are the most committed crime on the IMSA campus. Residential counselors have wizened up to the many ways that people break in-room. It now takes a great amount of skill to successfully sneak into another room after eleven …show more content…
The moment the rules begin taking away from your IMSA experience, they must be broken. Never get caught breaking the rules. It is not worth the punishments that come with getting caught, from humiliation to cleaning. Many have mastered this art. A few have learned this rule the hard way, and I am one of these people. I am ashamed to admit that in my earlier days, when I was but a naïve sophomore, I got caught twice for an in-room violation. I give you this advice to try to make sure none of you have to go through what I did. Follow my advice, and you will remember the next three years as the best of your life. Just don’t get caught in the