Student Voices

Ayanna '24 reflects on thirty miles and five days filled with memories

What it's really like to trade in your cell phone for your high school experience

Setting yourself up for success at boarding school

Reflections on a Midland rite of passage

Feeling uncertain and normalizing uncertainty

All about athletics at Midland

I came to Midland because otherwise I would be sitting in a class with forty other kids wondering what I could’ve been doing here; throwing a plate in ceramics, hiking with friends, riding a horse...

A Senior Project unlike any other

Celebrating our beloved departing Dean of Studies

Take a video tour of our living areas and hear all about cabin life

Considering one’s view of life as a whole, I learned a lot more about how to just go with the flow and not stress the little details. Even with jobs there, things are in a constant state of motion.

We learned about the three main types of perfume. These are called accords. The first type is chypre. Feminine perfumes tend to be based on this accord. The second type is called fougère - masculine fragrances tend to be based on fougeres. The last one is called amber oriental, this can be feminine or masculine and is more of a warmer fragrance.

I came into grade 9 knowing I was a pretty independent person. I could have responsibilities and be able to handle it. I‘ve been able to grow into that and grow more that part of myself. I learned how to balance work responsibilities with academic responsibilities and being a role model and leader for other students.

Student writing is so much more meaningful when it has a real audience and can affect change. Read this student persuasive essay to see how Lyssa '26 made a case.

Funded by the generosity of Midland's Class of 1968

Funded by the generosity of Midland's Class of 1968

Funded by the generosity of Midland alumnus and former trustee, Jim Cosby '63

Out after dinner, back before breakfast

A look into how our Jobs Program builds community

Based on The Place Where You Live Project by Orion Magazine, written for World Literature, taught by John Isaacson '94

Our teams may not win sets or make baskets, but that’s because we have a more elusive goal

Maddy ’21 reflects on her Class of 1968 Wilderness Fund Experience

Reflections on lessons from the class of 2021

From minnows cast into the ocean to fish headed out into the world beyond Midland