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Another breathlessly busy afternoon began as students came straight from their Euthyphro class down to Olivia Music Hall for dance lessons. Prefect Teresa Bingham (’26) partnered with Stephen Brown (’25) to give a quick tutorial on East Coast swing steps before letting the students pick partners and try out the new steps together. Thus equipped, the students enjoyed their practice period together and danced out some of the dormant energy stored up by a morning of classes. 

Open recreation followed on the heels of dance class, as students quickly changed and headed to the athletic field for soccer, volleyball and spikeball. The new steps and sports left programmers hungry, and the night’s tacos were a hit as students took the dinner hour easy and enjoyed their meal together. 

Students gathered their notes and books after dinner and hurried off to prepare for the next morning’s classes. Teresa Bingham took the floor once again, this time to give a brief talk before study hall began, offering helpful hints concerning the pre-Socratic philosophers for tomorrow’s class. The pre-Socratics treat on generation and corruption, and Teresa gave students much to ponder, saying, “In trying simply to define change, you will find that you must use a verb, which immediately implies change! It’s a circular concept.”

Study hall is a peaceful and productive respite for the students from the usual business of their schedule, and everyone was glad to sink into the sofas or sit at the desks of the library and lose themselves in the Pre-Socratics and Euclid’s next three props. In the Euclid study-groups, students took turns demonstrating props for their peers and working through the concepts together. 

After study hall, prefects served up dirty sodas and dance music in St. Frassati Student Center. Programmers picked their favorite flavors of soda and played games or danced together before Adoration in the Chapel. The congregation prayed the Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament, attended Benediction, sang the Divine Praises, then finally headed to the dorms.

Perhaps the programmers thought it was an early-bedtime kind of night, but no — the action never ends on the High School Summer Program! Back in the dorms, students were surprised with special events: in the girls’ dorm, a disco dance party, and in the boys’, an obstacle course and tricky hostage-rescue game, severally courtesy of creative sibling prefects Sophia and Alexie Forrester (’29 & ’26). By the end of the night, the students were out like a light the moment their heads hit the pillow. 

Check in with the Summer Blog again this afternoon to receive the full run-down on this morning’s classes!

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