{"id":1129,"date":"2005-01-20T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/01\/20\/summer-camps-over\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T13:58:10","slug":"summer-camps-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/01\/20\/summer-camps-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer camp’s over"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

…And, yes, I have returned from methods camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On some level, it really was like summer camp — the intense experience
\nthat forges apparently meaningful friendships.  Only time will
\ntell how many of these people will end up being actual friends (as
\nopposed to conference drinking buddies — which are valuable, too,
\ndon’t get me wrong).  But the re-entry to the real world is
\ndisorienting.  As one friend (I’m pretty sure about that) put it:<\/p>\n

\n
so, I can’t help thinking that it’s incredibly irresponsible of
\n[the organizers] to let all of as leave Arizona without some sort of
\nreal world reentry program. I’ve spent the weekend in seclusion in my
\napartment; there are so many bloody PEOPLE all over the place and I’m
\ngetting tired of continually thinking I see someone from IQRM and then
\nhaving them turn around and feeling disappointed and disoriented
\n(again). I figure, though, if IQRM was a temporary retreat to
\nadolescence, then each day I can regain a year and within a couple
\nweeks be back to my normal, somewhat jaded, less drama-prone self.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes.  Drama.  That’s another element of summer camp.<\/p>\n

Here’s to re-integration with our fellow jaded day-to-day life people….<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Andrew puts it thus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I got an email today from someone I was out there with… and talk about
\nwarmth. I fear that I may have made lifelong friends in two short
\nweeks. It, of course, remains to be seen if the two weeks out west was
\nreally a Breakfast Club type of thing. But here’s to hoping that it
\nisn’t. I’m too old for those kind of things anymore, and besides, these
\npeople wear well.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Precisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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