<p>I'm just curious. I think it would be good to get to know your peers and teachers better. Anyone had experiences with it? Thanks! :)</p>
<p>How else would you have dinner, standing up ?</p>
<p>You could potentially have dinner in bed...but only if you're have mobility issues or a mother celebrating mother's day.</p>
<p>Are you guys being sarcastic?? Because I can't tell...</p>
<p>Lol, I think I'll like sit-down dinners too. It's less awkward trying to find someone to sit with, and they might not even like you if you sit with a person you don't know that well; But if you have an excuse to sit with them, you really get to know eachother better =D</p>
<p>As an adult, I thought they would be a good idea.....provide more of a family atmosphere....However, the boarding school where our student goes now does not have them. Seems like there are plenty of opportunities to make friends and find dinner companions, between dorm, sports, classes, etc.</p>
<p>i think formal dinners would be cooler :P
imagine, every single guy in this huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge dining hall wearing suits/something dressy
AND THEYRE ALL EATING</p>
<p>i dunno. that just makes me smile :D</p>
<p>I have mixed feelings about the sit down dinners....As weird as it sounds I think I'll welcome them depending on how the dinner hall looks lol. If it looks like the harry potter hall or something then ya...it might be cool for awhile. But I like to stay on the move and do what I want when I want, so this sit down stuff might be weird to start with.</p>
<p>btw the hill school's dining hall reminds me of harry potter :) part of the reason why my mom likes Hill is because of that dining hall (it really is amazing, it's like mahogany tables lined up in long, long rows and if i remember correctly, there was a sort of stage at the end (could be hallucinating) and a balcony O_O (ok that might actually be REAL hallucinating), plus the campus is gorgeous even though the town is kinda... ghetto.
but it was soooo pretty :)</p>
<p>hmm i wouldnt wanna be forced to sit with anyone that i dont know. id want to sit with my friends</p>
<p>I assume you're applying to Deerfield, am I correct?</p>
<p>They're really nice if you want to get to know people, but if you want to sit with your friends you'd have to wait until a day that was not a sit down day.</p>
<p>I agree with TomTheCat. I like the idea of a mix of sit downs and non sit downs. That way I'll get to hang with friends but also meet other kids.</p>
<p>Well at sps we have 2 required sit down dinners a week. For fall and spring term they are really formal and assigned seating, but you get to meet a lot of people you don't know. But in winter term we have dinner with our advisee group which is not formal and it allows you to get to know your advisor a lot more personally. So personally I like sit-down dinners.</p>
<p>I never really liked them...we only had them once a month, but that dinner of forced small talk and awkward conversation with random people was kind of excruciating. It was almost always the same boring conversations, too...where are you from. how's (insert sport here) going. how's everyone's classes going. where are you applying to college.</p>
<p>I think they tend to happen only in the small schools like DF and SPS where you don't really need them. It would be cool to have them a few time in fall term at A/E because of the size of the school in my opinion. I would prefer them in bigger schools every now and then.</p>
<p>hmmm no i just like sticking to my own friends</p>
<p>Tabor has them once a week, and I personally like them. Not so much the actual meal, but I like the atmosphere of having the entire school community in one room eating and talking together. It's nice as an underclassmen to get to know the upperclassmen that you might not interact with on sports teams or in the dorms and it's nice as upperclassmen to get to know the new students who you don't have classes with. Also, getting to know the faculty who you might not have as coaches or dorm parents in situations beyond the classroom is another thing I like. It's only one night per week and it alternates between being random and sitting with advisors and other combinations.</p>
<p>St. Mark's has them twice a week. I personally dont mind having sit-down meals, but the only thing i hate is when i have to be waiter. Waiters are randomly chosen among the students. i had to do it twice already. Too Bad!</p>
<p>You serve everyone food or something?</p>
<p>Ugh, I hated serving. I had the bad luck of being randomly chosen three times in one year. At my school, that meant you had to go fifteen minutes early and put all the food out on the table, if your table ran out of something during dinner, you had to go get it. Afterwards you had to bring everything to the kitchen. If you were lucky, people at your table would help clear.</p>
<p>Ugh, I hate them.
The person above me is correct!I have them once a week. It's torture. And the food choices are way more limited.The dresscode is formal but our daily dresscode is formal so Im used to it by now. I just shower after practice and go to chapel followed by dinner. If you skip it's demerit.</p>