Student Life

While academic preparation is central to the Blair experience, we believe firmly in our student life curriculum and emphasize leadership, service, and the ability to live in a residential community as essential elements of a student’s preparation for college and life.

Our students find their days filled with academic, social, athletic, and community activities and an integral part of the Blair experience is learning how to enjoy the many opportunities on campus, while also managing one’s time in healthy and productive ways.  

Shortly after arriving on campus, Blair students will quickly learn the routine—meals are served in The Romano Dining Hall, school meeting takes place on Mondays and Fridays in Dubois Theatre, and afternoons are reserved for athletic competitions and extracurricular activities. During the week, classes are supplemented by programs like the weekly Society of Skeptics lecture, at which an engaging speaker visits campus to share his or her insight into world affairs, science, technology, media or journalism.

Throughout the year, students also enjoy a wide range of concerts, art openings and receptions, poetry readings, theatre productions and off-campus excursions to nearby New York City. On the weekends, the Blair community comes together in a more relaxed setting for barbeques, dances, intramural sporting competitions and music festivals.

News

  • Senior Prize Assembly to Be Streamed Online in Real Time

    Posted May 17, 2013

    Each year, Blair honors graduating seniors at a prize assembly, recognizing their outstanding academic, artistic and musical contributions. For the first time, the School will live broadcast the Senior Prize Assembly on Monday, May 20 for those who cannot attend the annual event.

  • Students Gather at Blairstock to Enjoy Music, Food & Fun

    Posted May 16, 2013

    At the end of each academic year, the Blair community comes together one last time at Blairstock to listen to live music, participate in outdoor activities and enjoy the warm spring weather.

  • Students & Faculty Compete in 6th-Annual Triathlon

    Posted May 15, 2013

    On Sunday, May 12, students and faculty competed in the School’s sixth annual Kenya triathlon, featuring a 300-yard swim in Blair’s pool, five-mile cycling race by campus loops and two-mile run.

About Life at Blair

To really experience Blair, you have to visit the campus, but this short film about student life at different times of the year, gives some insight into what it is like to live in the Blair community.

From day one, our community’s warm welcome tells even the youngest students that Blair is not just their new school, but also their new family. This family, the Blair community, challenges and encourages students to maximize their potential and instills in them the tools that they will need to successfully navigate college and life beyond.”  

Ryan Pagotto, assistant headmaster for student life