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Typical Day

8:00 am

Breakfast

8:40 am

Camp Meeting

9:00 am

Whole-group lesson:

 

Henry David Thoreau's Walden

9:45 am

Break

10:00 am

Whole-group lesson:

 

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself

11:15 am

Seminar discussion groups

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Arts Electives

3:15 pm

Literature Electives

4:30 pm

Free time—swimming pool

5:30 pm

Dinner

6:00 pm

Reading period

7:30 pm

Guest Speaker: Pulitzer Prize-winner Debby Applegate author of The Most Famous Man In America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

9:00 pm

Free time—ice cream party

9:30 pm

Informal pod discussions with PAs in dorm

10:30 pm

Lights out

 

 


"I am deeply impressed by many aspects of this program, including the warmth and professionalism of the staff, the rigor and creativity of the curriculum, and the physical beauty of its setting. But what impresses me most, are the students themselves."

Dr. Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

"Every summer, all I have to do is mosey on down from my hilltop home overlooking Amherst College, and walk into an ongoing conversation about the Big Stuff. It always feels like an intellectual transfusion."

Dr. Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

"I will mark Amherst as my most memorable event of the year, simply because of the smartest and most generous kids I was surrounded with. I wish they could be my students forever..." "

Da Chen, award-winning, best-selling author

"What a terrific curriculum and an enthusiastic group of young people. Made me want to drop everything and sign up."

Barry Eisler, best-selling author

"The students were such an engaged and smart and interesting group. I really enjoyed talking to them but mostly just appreciated being asked such a varied array of questions. It was a lot of fun."

Jacob Lewis, former managing editor of The New Yorker magazine and co-founder of Figment.com

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