At 11 p.m. on a Sunday, Maddie Cunniff ’23 sat staring at the daunting list of school work that awaited on her computer. She had a lab write up, major presentation and several assessments in the coming...
Head Prefect Simon Lee '23 was on edge. With thousands of his peers' eyes fixated on him, he was about to give the speech that would determine his long-held dream of becoming Head Prefect. After giving...
Garrett* sat in the back of his math class with his computer open. He watched as Guest6598344956 moved a knight and waited for his own turn in his chess game. Meanwhile, his math teacher lectured about...
In her third grade classroom, Natalia Johnson ’23 said she was always amused by her teacher’s antics. Every time she got a name wrong, Ms. Anderson would drop to the floor and do thirty five push-ups....
It’s quiet on campus. Georgiana* and the rest of the girls from the theater department gather in a circle, tucked away in one of the campus’s most secluded locations. They believe they are alone. These...
Ella Yadegar, Assistant Features Editor
• March 22, 2023
At 10:45 p.m. on a Saturday, Willow* ’24 and her friends approached the entrance to a bar. They nervously crossed their arms over their dresses as they joined the line to get inside. Once they reached...
As Skyler Griswold ’24 went out to recess in third grade with a backpack full of lanyards, she said all she could think about was the goal of 240 dollars she had set for herself. The night before, Griswold...
Sixty anxious sixth-graders sat in a crowded boardroom facing a PowerPoint presentation at the Center for Early Education (CEE) in the fall of 2022. Greg Gonzalez, Interim Head of Admission and Enrollment...
Bronwyn Vance ’24 stared at the TV screen as she watched the Golden Globes, anxiously waiting to hear the winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. When she heard that Angela Bassett (Bronwyn...
The school’s celebration of Black History Month in 2023 marks almost four years since the administration adopted its Anti-Racism Plan in response to student demand for anti-racist action in the 2019...
It is 5:45 in the morning, and Bella Adishian’s ’24 alarm rings through her pitch-black room. She quickly throws on her clothes, brushes her teeth, eats breakfast and leaves the house by 6:15 a.m....
Ella Yadegar, Assistant Features Editor
• February 8, 2023
As Clara Berg ’25 walked through campus during the lunch period, she noticed a lesbian couple holding hands at a Quad table. Berg’s eyes darted between the couple and her classmates, some of which...
