Indiana Academy is a boarding school in Muncie, Indiana on Ball State campus for gifted juniors and seniors in high school. I’m attending it. I’ve been here for over a week now. I moved in August 6th, and classes started on the 10th. It has about 300 students, which is very different from the 4000 of my previous school.
So far, I quite like it. In fact, I lurve it. This far in, at least, the amount of homework isn’t bad, and the classes aren’t hard yet, either. And as for the social aspect… Well, I now have a social life. I didn’t before. In the past ten days, I’ve gone out with a group of friends to play a game of disc or go to dinner or somesuch six times as much as before that. Because I had done that once before (and that was only because a certain girl was involved. But that’s another story ). And that’s…enjoyable. Heck, just “hanging out”, a concept which I have never before understood, is enjoyable.
And I’m telling you all this, because it could be useful to know in context of other posts I make (such as this one ).
Hmm… I feel as if I’m leaving something out of this post. Oh well. If I think of it, I’ll post it then.
Just checking in to say that I went to the North Carolina School of Science and Math, something that sounds very similar to IASMH (in fact, they’re both members of NCSSSMST). I found that the two years I spent there were years when I changed more than I would have thought possible, and also perhaps the best years of my life up until this point.
I’m mentioning this because it sounds like you may be about to have a similar experience, and you should definitely get as much out of it as you can! (The workload will get worse, though, I’m afraid).
I knew several people at work and in college who went there for high school. Have you ever seen that movie ‘revenge of the nerds’? That is what college is like for you guys sans the revenge part.
Do they still have an esoteric grading system? I was told their system isn’t based on the ABCDF system. But congrats on getting in. The people I knew who went there were all fairly intelligent. One is doing his PhD in computational chemistry at a very high ranking graduate school right now.
edited to add: I see you addressed the grading system in your earlier post. But I was told (maybe I misinterpreted what I heard) that you didn’t flunk out, at least a person who went there 10 years ago seemed to imply that. But I may have heard wrong.
). And that’s…enjoyable. Heck, just “hanging out”, a concept which I have never before understood, is enjoyable.
