Summer Quotebox
“I went to the Dominican Republic with two other Exonians to help out communities and learn about the environment. We shoveled a lot of dirt, built a couple bottle houses and spent the afternoon playing in the cool water. It was a humbling volunteering abroad with Global Leadership Adventures!”
-Chloe Scocimara ’18
“I had a job this summer waitressing at a Perkins. It didn’t pay well and the managers weren’t very nice, but I got a taste of what it’s like to live outside of the Exeter bubble. It’s definitely not easy, so I finished this summer with a lot more sympathy for people less privileged than I am and a lot more appreciation for the opportunities Exeter has given me.”
-Emily Green ’18
“I worked for a nonprofit organization called Green Below 14 that improves parks and playgrounds in downtown Manhattan. It was definitely an eye-opening experience because I never knew how much work went into running and growing a nonprofit. It was also really great to see the payoff of the team effort that went into providing programming and sanitation for the parks.”
-Emily Cardenas ’18
“I spent this summer at Tripp Lake Camp in Poland, Maine where I’ve been going since I was nine. It was so much fun and a really nice way to de-stress from the school year. We don’t have technology for the whole seven weeks, so it was kind of crazy coming back and being totally out of the loop.”
-Grace Khaner ’18
“I went on a trip to France with the classics department. We bonded like a family over those three weeks. It was like a traveling Harkness class that never ended. Ten of us students and two teachers trying to figure out how to do archeology and then playing follow the leader to the ancient locations in Lyon, Nîmes, Arles and Paris. I’m pretty sure we improved at archeology, or at least looking like we knew what to do.”
-Taylor Robertson ’19
“This summer I did a three-week business program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. We got to visit a bunch of businesses such as T. Rowe Price, American Express and Morgan Stanley, and we even presented a case study in front of McNeil Pharmaceuticals. At the end we had a business plan competition with real venture capitalist judges. It was a really great opportunity and a great way to spend three weeks that I would’ve otherwise spent watching Netflix.”
-Chris Agard ’17
“I spent my summer focusing in on my artistic pursuits. For the month of July I worked in the New York City studio of my favorite artist Richard Phillips in assisting him from everything to cleaning paint bushes to helping create pieces for his next show in Brussels. During my small amounts of free time I was busy creating the last piece of my portfolio, a 4x6 foot oil painting titled Ground Control.”
-Ally Grounds ’17