“One of the things most valuable about this place, because there isn’t much here, is something that I think a vast number of elite colleges have lost,” Swan told me while overlooking the lake. “Everyone here is needed to make it work. And that’s a huge gift to these kids. There’s nothing here! The games are the games that they make up. When everything is all set up for you and your dorm room looks like the Ritz, you won’t have to decorate it or maybe they won’t even let you.”
