Middlesex is 70% boarding.
@skieurope I don’t expect to spend much time doing “leisure activities”, I was just saying that apparently there’s not a lot of time to have any fun at all. I expect to be doing a lot of studying.
Well, ya gotta define “fun.” Repeat after me:
Studying is fun.
Studying is fun.
Studying is fun.
Studying is…
@skieurope is correct that during the week, especially freshman year, most of the hours in the day are spoken for. Sports/equivalents will take up the afternoon and most BS have mandatory study hours after dinner until lights out. You aren’t going to have any significant downtime M-F during your freshman year. Many BS also turn off the Internet after certain hours and have honor codes that may determine when you can use your personal hotspot (they really do want you to sleep). So I wouldn’t worry too much about the fun quotient. You’ll have time to relax on weekends. At Choate, you can wander into the part of Wallingford that touches campus and get a sugar high with friends at Mr. D’s or enjoy some wings at Archie Moore’s. Beyond the restaurants and the public library, there isn’t much else, so those things have to fit your new definition of “fun.” I can’t speak to MX.
@ChoatieMom I am trying to enjoy the last few months of regular middle school workload before freshman year 
I know that I’m definitely gonna be overwhelmed at times… I’m expecting to have any hint of procrastination beaten out of me :))
Nice try @ChoatieMom :))
Not much to do in Concord… Though Concord seems to have lots of small town stores and local eateries…
Daughter takes long dinners hanging with her sci-fi and Marvel loving group, and spend occasional evenings at a friend’s cottage room for chatting, movie or reading. She said she could take her dinner to her room as one of her best friends is doing to “spend time more efficiently.” I said no because her social life is more important than her freshman grade.
You can pick two among; grade, health and social life.
We all had our priorities in HS; some had different ones. 
@doschicos
I don’t mean to imply that there will be no time to socialize, there will. But I also know from personal experience that new students overestimate how much free time they will have. The same is true even for the new Harvard students. To that end, I guarantee you, before the summer is out, someone will post asking if they can bring their three ginormous gaming monitors with them.
"But I also know from personal experience that new students overestimate how much free time they will have. "
Isn’t that first semester or trimester as a freshman are rite of passage? Socializing tons, making the library too noisy, etc. and then your first set of grades show up and either you wake up and buckle down of your own accord or your advisor and parents make you see the light.
And perhaps a TV or projector :-?
Lol I think the only entertainment thing I will be packing (besides laptop) are going to be a deck of cards
My kid devoured books before BS. Now he simply does not have time to read for pleasure.
Every Friday night lately while we’re home relaxing, eating pizza, watching a movie, I think of how next year my son will be in study hall Friday nights 
And what great time management skills he will have going off to college
@queenmother I noticed the same thing with reading and my son. He has been reading a bit more in 11th & 12th grade for pleasure.