I started at Harbor School without really knowing what I wanted to do after high school. Though, I knew for sure that a hands-on education was what I needed. I’ve always been good at learning-by-doing, and Harbor School was perfect for that. When I arrived as a freshman, I had limited on-water experience. As a rising senior, I am very happy to say that I have logged more than 85 days at sea and I am looking forward to a career on the water.

The great thing about Harbor School is that it teaches responsibility and the value of teamwork. Even at Indock, the school’s freshman orientation program, students learn that they must “pull hard and pull together” — a motto we have for not just raising sails but for all our work together.

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"It’s really important to begin high school with a sense of the future."

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I recommend that incoming freshmen think about life after high school, not in terms of where they want to go, but in terms of what they need to have accomplished and experienced in order to have a choice of where to go. Start high school with a plan of self-improvement and set ambitious short-term goals: I want to keep a 90+ average in all my classes by the first marking period and I want to join at least one after school activity by October. Keeping on track with these types of short term goals and setting new ones each semester will prove invaluable when it’s time to begin applying to college. Trust me!