<p>I was reading some of the things in the making the prep school forum thread and a few people were saying that schools should have their own threads like St. Paul's does so I decided to make one for Exeter. So just post stuff about Exeter. And if you aren't going to Exeter make another thread about the school you ARE going to.</p>
<p>a âdickeyâ is what you get when you skip class
-no oneâs heard of myspace
-you hate smurfs (and not the t.v. show)
-everyone warns you of mr. feng
-assembly meets 3 times a wk, not once a month
-you like when teachers get sick , âcause that means class is cancelled, not a sub
-a 25 min sleep-in when thereâs a-format fat block is your savior
-the only reason you wake up on monday morning is for chocolate chip muffins
-you get sick of soft serve ice cream
-people paint their whole bodies red just because itâs E/A weekend
-guys wear shirts and ties
-you see a ton of snow outside your window and thereâs not a snow day
-DSL is the Day Student Lounge, not a cable service
-silly is spelled C-I-L-L-E-Y
-your p.e. class is called SPAZ
-freshman are called âprepsâ
-sophmores are called âlowersâ
-juniors are called âuppersâ
-you have to wake up on saturday morning to go to class
-you get a month-long winter vacation
-a kid in your comp sci class has his error messages pop up in french
-everyone one around you is bilingual
-you have class until 6:00 p.m.
-you have sports like crew, squash, and ultimate frisbee
-your best friend lives 16 hours (by plane) away
-finals mean less class
-you have a harvard or yale shirt
-meditation = 20 minutes of free time
-you can look up everyoneâs phone number, email, name, adress, and picture through lion links and it not be totally sketchy
-you use words like âsketchyâ
-your internet shuts off at 11
-your floor looks like a garbage dump
-you have to get âvâsâ to see a member of the opposite sex in their dorm (also; âillegal vâsâ)
-know what a harkness table is
-youâre paranoidly afraid of black spoons
-if you say you got 8 hours of sleep last night people glare at you
-getting to bed at 11 is a luxury
-youâve seen your teachers rollerblade on stage in front of the student body
-youâve been put on sevens
-you know âsymphoniaâ is the name of an orchestra
-every academic building is either named lamont, academy, or phillips/phelps
-everything is BRICK
-you have a dance every weekend
-getting something in your p.o. is the most exciting part of the day
-you have a magic card with your picture on it that can buy stuff at grill, the bookstore, and let you into your dorm
-you have a lanyard
-you pay twice what itâs actually worth for clothing with âEXETERâ stamped on it
-grill is a hangout, not a barbeque
-your school was founded in 1781 (a heck of a long time ago!)
-âfacebook creepingâ is a method of procrastination
-youâre reeeaaaaally good at super smash bros
-itâs the only place where people say, âDamn, itâs Saturday.â
-you have a curfew of 8, 9, or 10
-facebook creeping is considered a form of art
-you get 5âs
-if you get your homework wrong, just so alex the geologist dies
-EP (evening prayer) is a sad way to date
-you go to breakfast in your pajamas, not caring how you look
-your library has over 5 floors and houses over 250,000 volumes of books
-you are a memeber of the group âandover grads will eventually bag my groceriesâ
-your school is the closest thing to hogwarts
-your social life revolves around Tuesday school-wide church sessions
-you sleep on a green-striped plastic matress
-you roared like a lion because everyone else was doing it
-you have stolen a bench
-you have found yourself trapped in the Cage
-you own four or more random objects with Exeter written on it
-you ever wondered what four red and blue metal brackets are doing on a lawn
-you hear âsssssâ you think âAndoverâ
-your favorite physics lab involved the revolving floor thingie
-your clothing ever smelled terrible just going through the laundry
-youâre broke as a joke all the damn time
-you get excited over a 2 day weekend
-you have flirted with the E&R guy so heâll put more money on your card
-you have ever felt the urge to holla at ty-dawg
-you know the meaning of stricts, Vâs, D-Hall, and PO
-youâre a member of the Harkness Society
-you know what the Harkness Society is
-you go to prom in a school bus
-you smile when thinking about potholes (POTHOLES!)
-your favorite day of the month is chicken finger day
-your first and only priority on sunday morning is brunch
-you meet a teacher for coffee at Peel and not only be early, but not be worried about a grade, and youâre sad when the time is over
-you are truly excited about the prospect of watching TV after 8
-you canât leave your dorm after10 to go out, but you can leave at 5 am to get play
-you spend time reading othersâ AIM profiles over work
-you have experienced the wrath of the 333
-you would die without pastabilities
-you have gone to the infirmary and left with only packets of salt
-getting dicked for fat a means something without a sexual connotation
-youâve been to dunkin donuts at five in the morning
-you scream the names of rich dead men in assembly hall and think youâre cool because of it
-you go home for vacation and only stay up after 11 for the internet
-you compete with your friends about how late youâve stayed up
-itâs 3 am the night before your biology final, you havenât started studying, and youâre picking out the courses for the next 3 years of your life
-instead of taking your test, youâre reading the signatures on the slidey thing
-you hate happy people</p>
<p>(I know people have posted this before but I found a couple of these lists and combined them)</p>
<p>âinstead of taking your test, youâre reading the signatures on the slidey thingâ
Love it!</p>
<p>âyou leave your room at 5am to get playâ Hate it! A mom here! ;)</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this thread! We need a safe place for kids and parents to just be happy (or worried) about entering Exeter!</p>
<p>â-everyone warns you of mr. fengâ that is so true! everyone on the exeter group is like, watch out for mr. feng⊠whatâs so âweirdâ about him, anyways? haha.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that he lectured at a university about solving hard math problems so I would imagine he is just a really difficult math teacher. Just a guess though.</p>
<p>Iâve heard the opposite. Everyone I talk to seems to adore the guy. Heâs supposed to be brilliant. =D</p>
<p>I agree he must be brilliant!</p>
<p>He coaches the US math olympiad team â lots of mathies would be thrilled to study under himâŠ</p>
<p>fif appreciates the completeness of this threadâs title. All too often, people on this board confuse the Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire with the one in Waterloo, Iowa.</p>
<p>Whatâs with the third personâŠ</p>
<p>fif writes in the third person because itâs affected and occasionally irritates people.</p>
<p>âyouâre reeeaaaaally good at super smash brosâ</p>
<p>Guess that something to look forward to for gamers like me :)</p>
<p>My favorite ones are
âyou go to prom in a school busâ and âyou have flirted with the E&R guy so heâll put more money on your cardâ :p</p>
<p>If youâre curious about Mr. Feng, rent the documentary âHard Problems.â You will see him in action. I think he is a great guy, Iâve met him in person and exchanged e-mails with him - my daughter is not as thrilled with him. He is the head of the math club (obviously) and she said he is without emotion to an extreme. She hasnât had him for a teacher though, but I hope she does get him eventually. Sheâs really crazy about Mr. Wolfson, her math teacher. She had him all year and was thrilled.</p>
<p>Fun is Fun - there is a town named Exeter in California and often when I tell people my daughter goes to âExeterâ - they think it is some school in Exeter, CA. So now I always clarify and say something like âshe goes to a prep school in New Hampshire.â And if they are curious enough they will ask the name of it.</p>
<p>fif didnât know there was a Phillips Exeter Academy in Cali. Is it a day school, boarding school? What grades does it offer?</p>
<p>fif 
They donât seem to have a website so Iâll have to let you know once I drive there.</p>
<p>I saw someone posted this on CC a while ago and I finally found it. Itâs hilarious: [YouTube</a> - Exonian Idol 2008 Thong Song](<a href=âhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNk9pHehJk]YouTubeâ>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNk9pHehJk)</p>
<p>When Exeter is deciding whether to rescind admission or not do they look at all your six weeks and exam grades or just the semester? Like say you got a 79 on your biology exam but still ended up getting a 90 for the semester grade and getting an 89 for the full year grade. Would that be a potential problem?</p>
<p>All they get is your transcript - and the only addition to that transcript will be your semester grade, which, in your case is a 90. Youâre fine.</p>