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My Summers at Nerd Camp

Geology, study hall, and "mandatory fun."

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Thanks to Stephen Weiss and Todd Polenberg for refreshing my memories about CTY at Skidmore.

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Meghan O'Rourke is Slate's culture critic and an advisory editor. She was previously an editor at The New Yorker. The Long Goodbye, a memoir about her mother's death, is now out in paperback.

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