Whether you’re 11 or 20, camp is valuable
A couple weeks ago, I ate lunch with a group of 15- and 16-year-olds — the same kids I’m supposed to transform this summer into “future camp leaders.”
One of the girls said that her friends and teachers give her strange looks when they find out what she’s doing this summer: the old “aren’t you a bit old for summer camp?” “Look,” I said, “wait until you’re a sophomore in college and you tell people you’re going back to camp.”
Wait until you’re a sophomore at Yale. You could go to China, or South Africa, or New Zealand, all on someone else’s money. You could work in the lab...
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