Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.Sample Book Insights:#1 I was in the eighth grade when I got into boarding school. My parents had gently laid the groundwork throughout middle school, asking if my local public high school, Columbia, was the school I wanted to commit this crucial four years of my life to, given that I did have other options.#2 I was excited to start my second year at Taft in late August. The school had only ever had five heads in its 130-year history, and I was excited to meet Mr. MacMullen, the current head of school.#3 The students arriving at Taft in the fall of 2015 were doing so early for a number of reasons. Fall varsity sports began practicing at least a week before the first day of classes, and with those students came hall monitors and head mons.#4 I was often surrounded by parents and children at lunch, as the classes of 1971 to 1977 reunited every day. My parents were extremely divorced by the time I went to school there.