Summer Program Blog

Willing to make a wager? The students at the New England High School Summer Program certainly were as they awoke after a night of drive-in fun.

Thursday evening on the New England High School Summer Program: rec period and a trip to the drive-in! 

With snatches of last night’s medieval melodies still in their ears, attendees grabbed their texts and trekked across campus to their classrooms. A challenging class on Soren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling lay ahead.

The sun was shining and a light breeze blew through campus as students on the New England High School Summer Program finished their afternoon class and headed into Wednesday’s recreation period. 

With visions of dodgeball still in their heads, students on the New England High School Summer Program awoke this morning to a bright blue Western Massachusetts sky dotted with fluffy white clouds — calling to mind the subject of the day’s first class: the two accounts of Creation in the Book of Genesis. 

When we last left the New England High School Summer Program students, they were gearing up for an epic dodgeball standoff in the Pope St. John Paul II Athletic Center.

With one day of classes and a night of fun under their belts, the students at the New England High School Summer Program arose for their second full day in Northfield ready to continue grappling with the Great Books!