At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.
Boarding school is a wicked thing.
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.
The huge advantage of boarding school is that it throws you into the social fire. Every social interaction I've had since then has been a million times easier. Literally, ever since then, it's all been child's play.