Milton Magazine - Milton Academy

STUDENT LIFENumber of students in the UpperSchool: 680Number of boarding students:340Number of houses on campus: 8Smallest house: 31 studentsLargest house: 48 studentsHow students describethemselves and each other:Hard workingMotivatedInterestingTalentedEnergeticUniqueActiveDedicatedAdventurousCreativeTraditions:• Halloween pumpkin carving• Dorm bowling•“Wills” on graduation eve• Milton/Nobles Day• Dorm softball in the spring• Decorating and caroling aroundthe holidays• Dinners in Boston•“The Wall” (near studentmailboxes where they hang theircollege rejection letters upsidedown)• Dorm dodgeball• 1212 Plays• Poems on Jim Connolly’s wall• Class IV Talks• Senior Spring Projects• Orange & Blue Competitions• Class IV book signing• Dorm “open houses”• Alumni as graduation speakersSample of active clubs oncampus:• AIDS Board• Hip-Hop Club• LORAX (environmentalorganization)• Speech and Debate Team• Jewish Student Union• World Health Organization(WHO)• ONYX (African-Americanculture)• Young Republicans• Improv Club• SIMA (Students Interested inMiddle Eastern Affairs)• French Club• Community Service Board• Asian SocietyStudent publications:• The Milton Paper (weeklynewspaper)• Milton Measure (biweeklynewspaper)• The Milton Academy Yearbook• Magus-Mabus (literarymagazine)• Mille-Tonnes (French newspaper)• La Voz (Spanish newspaper)• The Asian (cultural periodical)• M3 (Milton Music Magazine)• Helix (science magazine)• The Issue (current events onlinepublication)• Aché (celebrating diversecultures)Milton Magazine 27