It is May 29, 2016, and seniors fill the Quad beyond capacity as they prepare to count down their final moments of high school. Music blares from the speakers, and as the clock hits 3 p.m., the Class of...

Eloise* sits cross-legged in a pair of oversized sweatpants as she twists a drawstring around her finger. She’s just had sex for the first time, an experience that turned out to be anticlimactic. Dozens...

Beneath the stairs, perched on a bench outside Chalmers, Nate Arnold ’25 escapes the heat of a spring day with his guitar. Letting a few warm chords drift into the afternoon air, he uses thes natural...

The scent of body mist clings to the air as pop music pulses through the store. In the makeup aisle at Sephora, Hazel’s* eyes lock on a lip gloss vial. After one glance over her shoulder, scanning for...

Abby Landres ’26 sits in an empty classroom doing homework before her last class of the day. Her legs are propped up on a chair and she is focused on her laptop. She taps the keyboard as she scrolls...

Andrea Cruz-Vazquez’s ’25 room is quiet, lit only by the pale glow of an open laptop. She sits cross-legged at her desk, her eyes moving between the three admitted student portals open on her screen....

When Ethan Chen ’26 opened his stocks app, he instantly noticed red numbers flashing across the screen. His manufacturing and tech stocks were plummeting. Watching in disbelief, he sat in shock, seeing...

Jack Austen ’23 rose up in shock as he heard his name called at the Cum Laude Ceremony in May of 2023. He had just been selected to be the valedictorian of the Class of 2023. As he went up onto the Rugby...

By Lyla Kavanagh 12-year-old Sharon Legesse (Lydia ’26) sits nervously at the kitchen table, her mother sitting across from her with her hands folded in her lap. The night before, Legesse overheard...

Co-host of the War Room podcast Natalie Winters ’19 stood just offstage in Rugby Auditorium as the heat of the lights spilled over the crowd and the low hum of student voices buzzed like static....

It is middle school application season, and Ivy Wang ’26 is studying for the Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE). Her study materials are a little different than those of her peers, though. Instead...

It is 2022. While most classrooms at the school sit empty at 5:45 p.m. on a Monday evening, Rugby and Chalmers are quickly filled by students splitting into their Peer Support Rooms. Sophomore Nate Arnold...