Students and faculty left WMS this morning for week long Field Courses.  Field Courses allow students to explore one topic in depth and are experientially-based.  They compliment our regular course offerings well!  You can read more about  the trips offered this spring  at the following link: 

Jaime Pollitte, Director of the Outdoor Program, presented the following advice at morning meeting today as students and faculty started off on their Field Courses.  Jaime’s “Ten Rules for being Human” came from his work with the North Carolina Outward Bound School and were adapted from a piece by Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott.

Ten Rules for being Human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around. 

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. 

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work." 

4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can than go on to the next lesson. 

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, there are lessons to be learned. 

6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has become "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here." 

7. Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. 

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you make of them is up to you. The choice is yours. 

9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you have to do is look, listen, and trust. 

10. You will forget all this.