Summer Program Blog

Having come to know both campus and each other on Sunday, students were thrilled to begin getting to the know the College’s intellectual life on the first full day of the California High School Summer Program.

Today’s slender reading assignment covered Euclid’s definitions, postulates, and common notions, together no more than a few paragraphs. They seemed simple — almost too simple, some thought.

Having safely arrived on campus, attendees on the California High School Summer Program spent Sunday afternoon coming to know each other, the community, and the place they will call home for the next two weeks.

Although the weather held up for Saturday’s volleyball tournament and excursions, it did not, alas, for Sunday’s planned kayaking trip along the Connecticut River.

For the last week, this blog has been running posts from the High School Summer Program in New England. We now broaden our focus to include reports from the California campus, which begins its Summer Program today!

Saturday was a day full of beauty and joy, and the students went to bed with colorful paintings still in their mind’s eye — and sweeping opera ringing in their ears.

Friday night was full of fun and surprises at the New England High School Summer Program!