When the students choose the hard route…let them walk into the swamp! It’s a beautiful late-summer morning on the first expedition of Semester 41. Our plan for the day is to hike five easy miles—generally downhill and entirely on-trail—to the small town of Twin Lakes. The students are in charge. About halfway through the hike, […]
A wildfire breaks out near Twin Lakes, CO on June, 11, 2024. Photo Credit: Steve Sunday On a Tuesday afternoon in June, 2024, a plume of smoke started to rise about ten miles south of HMI’s campus. Word spread rapidly between HMI employees and residents: a wildfire had sprung up by Twin Lakes. We would
Leadville, Colorado has come a long way in the nearly 30 years since HMI cofounders Molly and Christopher Barnes selected the town to be the home of their new school. At that time, the mid-1990s, Leadville’s economy was bottoming out. Climax Mine, Lake County’s largest employer for most of the 20th century, had closed the
Abraham Zepeta: Un Momento Como Este – A Moment Like This Ya sea despertarme a las 6:30 AM o después de mi clase de Español, a las 2:20 PM, cocinar con mis compañeres es una gran diversión. Tenemos la responsabilidad de alimentar al semestre, y cada día tenemos nuevos platillos para cocinar! Al terminar nuestro
Amy Roberts on the Semester 43 Fun Run (Fall 2019) By Ray McGaughey, Director of Development and Semester 15 Alum At HMI we spend a good deal of time sharing gratitude. On campus, we have a tradition called Grati-Tuesdays where community members publicly thank one another for acts of kindness. With the passing of the
We premiered the following video as part of the Semester 46 virtual family weekend. Enjoy!
From the Los Angeles Times: For college students, taking a gap year might be the best way to outwit coronavirus by Stacey Leasca “Janak Bhakta, a soft-spoken 17-year-old from Tustin, had big plans for 2020. He wanted to spend time away from academics to learn, grow and mature by traveling the world. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck and
People often ask me what has changed in the fifteen years since I was a student at HMI. I tell them that the best parts of HMI remain the same: our students still live in cabins, go backpacking with their teachers, and have dance parties while mopping up the kitchen after dinner. But the school
[This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 HMI Newsletter] Much of the learning that takes place at HMI comes from working, living, and learning with people who have different life experiences and hold unique perspectives. Because of this, the more diversity we have in our community, the stronger our program will be. In order to
