Student Activities

From the simplest ride into Sorrento’s in Concord to Senior Prom at Gillette Stadium, student activity never stops. There are the programmed activities, like the Random Dance, the Benefit Ball, and Spring Carnival. But then there are the activities that seem to just materialize on a Thursday: the Red Sox game on Mother’s Day (make sure Mom understands), the van to your art teacher’s favorite Sushi place, the sudden plan to attend a book signing in Cambridge.

We invite you to indulge a few more descriptive sentences about student activities:

It’s Friday night before a long break, and you feel a different kind of energy around campus. Students (virtually the whole school, it seems) and a few brave and/or interested faculty converge on the Terry Room, sometimes referred to as “our living room.” Where generations of Middlesex students have assembled before, this generation of students arranges itself on couches, chairs, and floor to listen.  “FOS” is about to happen.

Like many other student activities on campus (and suggested in the name of the event itself), Freedom of Speech has both an air of formal preparation and utter spontaneity.  To call it a “coffee house” would miss the sense in which the whole community expects something memorable, personal, and authentic to happen. The next event on campus will erase all but the most stirring chords or words from memory, but the feel of community, excitement, and talent made visible will linger. And we’ll pick right up on that FOS energy the next time.