AMDA is like Hogwarts because ...

• Much like performing spells and brewing potions, doing your homework is actually fun.

• At Hogwarts, they have 1^st Year, 2^nd Year, 3^rd Year, etc, and each year is assigned special classes and privileges.  At AMDA, we have 1^st Semester, 2^nd Semester, 3^rd Semester, etc, and each semester is assigned special classes and privileges.

• The teachers are insane.

• Kids complain about going to class and doing homework every day, even though they are perfectly aware that studying theatre (or magic) is literally playing around all day long.

• At Hogwarts, you have to give the password to the people in the portraits.  At AMDA, you have to show your I.D. card to the people at the security desk.  Either way, if you forget it, you’re doomed.

• Hogwarts has four houses, and AMDA has three programs.  The students within the sections are biased, separated, and rarely interact, but at the heart, they’re all learning the same thing.

• The ghosts that haunt the corridors of Hogwarts and the non-student residents that roam the hallways of the Stratford Arms dorms are essentially the same thing.

• After your school days end, you are kicked out into the wilderness to fend for yourself.  Don’t worry, though.  You are always welcome to come back and teach.

If only we had a cafeteria and a meal plan where food could magically appeared in front of us via kitchen (elf) worker …

Love,

Little Me