BHSEC, a competitive public high school in New York City, was founded by Leon Botstein, president of Bard College. . Students who attend BHSEC graduate with a high school diploma and an Associate's degree. BHSEC's curriculum is known for being especially challenging.
The school is also known for its ethnically diverse student body and large hipster demographic.
You go to Bard High School Early College? I hear that school is so hard- don't you guys take college courses?
A high school in Manhattan and Queens where you do college work in 11th and 12th grade. Everyone wants to get into the schools but only around 1% of applicants actually do. It gives so much work that you can't socialize unless you are a superhuman. Lunch is spent doing homework.
Have you heard that Jane went to Bard High School Early College? She can't callus anymore because of the homework.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.