Mud Week: A chance to decompress

Balancing a top-notch academic program along with extra-curricular activities can take up a lot of your free time. However, Milton Academy has three “mud weeks,” which are breaks from extra-curricular activities. Essentially, this is an opportunity for Milton students to take a step back from our busy schedules and catch-up with friends or homework that we may have neglected. Each mud week happens after a sports season. Right now we are in the fall mud week, which marks the end of the fall season and beginning of the winter season. Milton also offers a game of Gotcha, basically a school-wide game of tag, to allow kids to decompress and have some fun.

Some athletes remain busy because all the New England play-off games happen during these “mud weeks” as well. This year, our boys’ and girls’ soccer teams made the New England play-offs, along with our girls’ volleyball team. For everyone else at Milton though, this is a time for students to relax before the next sports season.