Most Recent Summer Program Reviews

I was incredibly excited and honored to be accepted into Teen Ink’s summer writing program in New York. To be perfectly and utterly honest however, I expected writing camp to be dorky and not all that exciting. I was wrong. So wrong in fact that... (more »)

I had the luck chance of attending one of the Magellan Study Abroad programs during summer 2012. With a natural wanderlust, I jumped at the opportunity to visit Spain. Although I didn’t realize I would be getting into so much more. I had Spanish... (more »)

Late this summer, I had the pleasure of attending the Young Writers Workshop at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington. (The summer before, I attended Teen Ink’s own summer workshop.) The program is application only, but just... (more »)

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” Our experiences over these past 5 weeks have changed us forever by developing our character and intellect. We all came... (more »)

Five girls sit in the cozy dorm lounge in silence, their faces bathed in blue phosphorescence as they type, scroll, tap and click at laptops and iPads. Some type away at Word documents, frantically trying to finish a homework assignment for... (more »)

When I left my family, friends, and home this July to go away for a month, I was expecting to have a great time. What I wasn’t expecting was for everything to change, from my perspective on life to my opinions about myself. But that was what... (more »)

In the little traveling I have done in my lifetime, I have discovered that my comfortableness in any location is closely related to how long I spend in the shower. Like any new place I go, I found myself rushing through showering on my first... (more »)

ACTeen Academy offers a variety of intense courses that are extremely valuable to any aspiring young actor. The teachers engage every student by giving individual attention, while teaching each student how to work with others in scenes. ACTeen... (more »)

On the summer of 2010, I embarked on a summer program to the States. My mom’s friend, who resides in California, recommended to me a summer at the Harker school, San Jose. Before the trip, I had imagined the States as being similar to Singapore,... (more »)

It was 6 in the morning when I unzipped my sleeping bag, ready to start my first day at Mataguay Scout Ranch. I put one leg out, and I cringed. It was so cold that I immediately zipped myself up again, ignoring the sounds of other Scouts getting... (more »)