Prefect Job Description

If you are applying to be Prefect, please answer the questions below:

Read through the job description for Prefect. Please reflect (through writing) on why you are a good candidate for this role?

I knew I wanted to become a Prefect after my birthday last year as a freshman. It was October, and I was still extremely homesick. I felt like I did not belong at an institution like Pomfret for multiple reasons, the biggest one being that I was the only black boy in a grade with more than 50 other people. Everywhere I went, and every conversation I would have in that first month, my skin color would always be the topic of conversation. I was constantly reminded that I was different from everyone else, and I had not found a stable support system

Even if I’m not chosen to be a prefect , I will work as a leader without the title to achieve my goal of impacting the community.

If you could choose one dorm to be a Prefect in, what dorm it would be? Why would you be a good fit for this dorm?

I could choose to dorm to be a Prefect in, it would definitely be Hale. As I was saying before, when I first came to this school, I did not feel a connection here at all. Since the experience of boarding school, will most likely be a new one to most freshman, settling in will definitely be hard. As a freshman, I was very quiet, and I rarely came out of my shell. My prefects, Wesley Yang and Aren Craft did a great job of exposing me to the loving environment that the community fosters. And seeing how that has paid off since I’m more comfortable and loving towards this community, I want to in sense give back, and do the same for someone else. Being able to facilitate a 2.5 week long project with the freshman is what has motivated me to want to become a freshman perfect. Seeing their growth, and how they have developed over a short period of time, makes me wonder about the potential growth of a new freshman over a whole school year. Freshman, while they start off at the bottom of the totem pole, they are the ones who will soon be seniors. So it is important that they learn to appreciate this community, so that others below them can

I am naturally just a very kind and generous person, that finds its hard sometimes to say “no”. However I do understand that the job of Prefect requires someone to be firm in their actions, and someone who always abides by the rules. Knowing this, I will make an extra effort to make sure that the kids in my dorm do respect me, and that I do enforce the rules on them. Another aspect of being a perfect that might be challenging is my time management of everything else im doing. I’m planning on doing multiple things next year, and my use time might become something to reconsider. Even though these are potential challenges I might encounter, they are also things I know I can easily handle if I put my mind to