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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;valente151, post: 1318928, member: 27564&quot;]Last year was my first year attending Summer Seminar as a YN and I had an absolute blast and cannot wait to go again next year. I took an Intro to Grading class and thought that I was going to be bored because it was an introduction but it was an absolutely terriffic experience. We spent the whole class time, going through hundreds of coins series by series to study the wear patterns on each series. I loved the class because it took alot of emphasis off of grading books (the instructor&#039;s still urged that one should use them though as guides) and put way more emphasis on reading a coin for wear and making your own judgement, rather than match a picture to a coin. My instructor&#039;s were Brian Fanton, Rod Gillis and Rick Sear. They were absolutely amazing at teaching and also alot of fun before, after and even during class.</p><p>Outside of the classroom, the learning was just as spectacular. You have access to many of the big names and scholars in the hobby such as John Danreuther, Ken Bresset, the Goldbergs and many other spectacular &quot;walking encyclopedias&quot; that will teach you anything you could ever want to know about numismatics just with a simple question. I personally did not do any of the night time seminars, but by no means were the nights boring. </p><p>YN&#039;s now arrive a day early, so as to give them time to get to know each other and we also went and had pizza and went to an activity center as a team building experience. Other nights and free time were spent working on the YN auction. YNs have their own dorm, with a seperate common room. You are paired with a roommate and have a curfew of 11 PM on nights before class, and the last night before departure turns into an all nighter. As a YN, you are expected to contribute in some manner, whether it be collecting donations, cataloging the items, recording bids, or helping with with lot viewing. At times the work was hard, but the auction was a lot of fun, raising over $40,000 for YN scholarships.</p><p>When we had free time, we spent it many ways. Hours were spent at the local coin shop (Hallenbeck&#039;s, which is a great shop), I feel like I went to the ANA Museum every day and just oggled at the Harry Bass gold and pattern collections, picking up some books at the ANA library, and some of my friends even went skating at the ice rink on campus (I had to sit out due to a broken knee). At night, we had an assortment of activites, from nightly meetings to roundtable discussions, where the YNs and other attendees all brought pieces from their collection and showed them off. </p><p>I did not participate in any evening miniseminars, but I think they ran from 60 to 100 each, but I am not positive. I did go on the Pike&#039;s Peak trip, which I would highly recommend. I plan on doing Pike&#039;s Peak and the Gold Mine tour this year.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are a YN, I highly recommend going to Seminar and also applying for a scholarship.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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