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“I would get so discouraged in high school, being given just formulas with no explanation,” recalls Jo Dragoo, echoing a frustration that high school students often have with mathematics, as conventionally taught. 

“I greatly enjoyed all the reading and discussions, especially of Antigone, Fear and Trembling, and The Consolation of Philosophy; and, of course, I loved the community life.”

“They got me. I fell in love.”

 “I’m really looking forward to introducing the attendees to the Great Books.”

For the latest installment our ongoing series about the 2022 High School Summer Program prefects, we meet Anne Berquist, a rising senior on the New England campus.

While this series has thus far focused on the prefects for the California High School Summer Program, we are excited to begin profiling the prefects for the program in New England, beginning with rising sophomore Stephen Brown.

“I realized on my program that, although you’re tucked away into the mountains and into small discussions, you discover in a new way that life is so much bigger than yourself.”