<p>Hi! Thank you for answering all our questions. I was very curious about Kirtland house since I’ve been put in there. Could you please provide me with, if any, information you know about it?</p>
<p>Small house with about 10 girls and one experienced faculty family (as well as several faculty affiliates). It’s located in the Southern part of the campus, behind Wentworth and close to the gym.</p>
<p>PEAteacher : Just checked in the lion link and S is assigned in Knight House, but we found that he has the same extension with the other boy in the dorm, does it mean that he shares with him in a double room ? He’s not quite happy with that because he would prefer a single one.</p>
<p>Yes, same extension = same room. It’s common for new students to get a roommate, and it’s a valuable experience to learn to share a room. I believe there are only a couple of doubles in Knight, so he’s virtually guaranteed to get a single after his first year. Knight is a great little dorm with 15-20 students, very close to everything and with an experienced dorm head (who won the “best dorm adviser” award two or three years ago).</p>
<p>Thanks PEAteacher. He is happier when he learnt to have a single room next year, actually his roommate is also one of his roommate in Abbot Hall for Access Exeter a year ago, so they already knew each other.</p>
<p>I was also wondering what the swimming test involved? Is it just a basic safety procedure or something like that?</p>
<p>In the summer it’s just swimming one length of the pool in any style. I’m not sure if it’s the same in the fall. Yes, my understanding is that it’s a safety issue of sort; if you can’t swim, you’ll be given a chance to learn.</p>
<p>Do some dorm heads have pets like dogs and cats?</p>
<p>How is Exeter’s speech & debate team?
Newspaper?
Music program? (I play flute.)</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>Yes, a lot of dorm faculty have pets! (Not just dorm heads.) There’s also a “dog walker” student club; the members walk the faculty’s dogs around campus.</p>
<p>The debate team is very strong as far as I know; they often win awards at national competitions. The newspaper is well known and has a long tradition. There are lots of opportunities for musicians, including individual lessons and a variety of ensembles that you can join.</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>But no pets allowed for students, right?</p>
<p>That’s correct.</p>
<p>What kind of cereal is served at Exeter? Is it possible to eat it at a time other than breakfast? I’m a bit of a cereal junkie, and my afterschool snacks mainly consist of it.
What are your policies when it comes to students and Facebook or MySpace?
I’m very interested in forensic science, as you can probably tell by my username. What kind of courses could I take at Exeter that would help me reach that goal?
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. :D</p>
<p>what’s dickies? my friend who goes to exeter told me it’s when everyone runs around naked but for some reason i don’t believe him lol</p>
<p>Dickie = a slip you get when you miss a class. Like an absent slip. Get enough and there are some penalties I think. The name is … regrettable because you can get…dicked.</p>
<p>csi, many different kinds of cereal are available the dining hall. The DH is open 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., so you can have it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, mid-morning snack, mid-afternoon snack, etc. To my knowledge we have no “policy” regarding Facebook or MySpace. If you want to be on it, go ahead. Just use your brain and keep in mind that the internet can be a dangerous place. As for forensic science, I’m not quite sure. The Chair of the Sciences Department, Mr. Saltman, may be someone to contact about that.</p>
<p>The use of the word “dickey” is very peculiar. As istoleyournose says, it used to be an absence slip, but these days this is done mostly on-line. So it’s used more as a verb, both to indicate missing a class without an excuse (“I dicked Math today”) and being caught and reported by the teacher for missing or being late to a class (“Mr. Jones dicked me for being ten minutes late”). Similarly, a teacher may threaten to “give you a dickey” (i.e., report you as absent) if you’re late to class.</p>
<p>Just trying to finish up the last bit of shopping before we send him off to Exeter. Was wondering if you or one of the students know what calculator the students will need? He has a strong Math/Science bias. Also, do they need a lock for their gym locker (key or combination?)? Thanks.</p>
<p>My son has a TI-89 graphing calculator. I believe the requirement is the same for this year. </p>
<p>He does not use a lock on his gym locker - but the team locker room is locked during practices and games. I would imagine it would be a good idea to bring a combination lock to use for a locker if he were just working out and did not have use of a team room.</p>
<p>Not much to add to what liddyb4 said. When students work out on their own, they’re more likely to change in the dorm, walk over to the gym, and then shower and change back in the dorm (so there isn’t much of a need to use a locker).</p>
<p>By the time my daughter applies to Exeter, she will have been in the French school curriculum for 8 years- 1st through 8th grade. Do you know if a fluent french speaker can take the advance French courses (400 level) as a 13 year old?<br>
In addition to the French, she is fluent in Russian, however she doesn’t read or write very well in this language. How does the school teach students who can speak and understand in a specific foreign language, but have never learned to read/write beyond a 3rd grade level? There isn’t a good class that I can see where she would either not be bored (if it was the beginning levels) or too advanced (because she would understand the spoken, but couldn’t keep up with the reading).</p>