Rachel Persky ’15 rushes out the door and into her car to drive to her friend’s beach house, pulling up the navigation app Waze on her iPhone. She is running 10 minutes late and is stressed that she...
She slipped away from her cabin and rushed down to the beach dunes at her sleep-away camp where Jack, her camp boyfriend, was waiting for her. He gently kissed her nervous lips, his braces touching her...
Seniors learn the outcomes after submitting their Early Action and Early Decision applications. While some students’ futures are set, other students’ are still up in the air.
The All-Around:
Walter*...
Jane* hears her phone alarm ring while sitting with a friend at her house. She grabs it and reads the alert on the screen: "You know what this is," then jets into the bathroom. She takes out the circular...
Oct. 27 marked the beginning of a new era in my life, the start of my transition away from Harvard-Westlake into, well, the real world. No, I didn’t submit my application to college or receive an acceptance...
The Athlete:
Summer* chose to apply Early Decision to Oberlin College and hit send on the Common Application last week.
"It is not at all a Division I track school, or a sports-oriented school whatsoever,...
Celine Khavarani ’95, a vice president of the Italian fashion house Prada, told members of the La Femme club Monday about her career in fashion, and her belief in the importance of surrounding herself...
Julia Safir ’15 cut out golden tattoos from a sheet. She took off the clear plastic cover on top of the design and placed it face down on her arm. Safir put a wet cloth over the design and held it there...
Geotechnical engineers began conducting new borings on Harvard-Westlake’s property on the west side of Coldwater Canyon Monday.
The school has been working to complete its environmental review to build...
Each year the Chronicle follows the paths of four seniors through their college processes. Their identities are kept anonymous until the final issue.
The Artist:
Blair* spent a month in Dublin, Ireland...
Two days after tearing her skin off with Sally Hansen’s Wax Strips, Kristen Gourrier ’16 was in the emergency room with a third-degree chemical burn. Gourrier’s friend had placed a waxing strip made...
Jamie Chan and Kyle Graham will join the deans office next year, replacing deans Mike Bird and Pete Silberman, Head of Upper School Audrius Barzdukas announced to their counselees in emails.
Chan is coming...
Emma,
You have a birthday on Aug. 5, and you are from Zhanjiang in the Guangdong Province of China.
While we don’t know for sure what happened, I believe that your birth mother must have cared about...
Jamie Chan will replace Mike Bird as an upper school dean beginning next school year, Head of Upper School Audrius Barzdukas announced in an email May 9 sent to students and parents of the current dean.
Chan...
"F***!" Dominique Gordon ’15 yelped in shock after a piece of celery hit her face in the middle of English class. Aaron Esagoff ’15 had thrown the piece to his friend who wanted celery, but accidentally...
Okay, so it’s not a drug addiction, but being addicted to Starbucks is more dangerous than it seems. I finally admitted to myself that I had a problem when my Iced Venti Nonfat Chai Tea Latte was waiting...
Sloane Chmara ’15 opens the refrigerator door on a Monday morning and grabs the pan of crumbled graham crackers and sugar with chocolate ganache in the middle and marshmallows sprinkled on top. Chmara...
For the first time, students in both junior English courses and Advanced Placement English Literature have the option to write essays based on an alternative prompt. As a response to the English Department’s...
A total of 417 students, nearly half of the upper school student body, signed up for Peer Support at Activities Fair this year, making it the largest club on campus.
Peer support coordinators also created...
It’s the second act of “The Sunshine Boys,” and advancement assistant Annie Abrams ’99 is on stage with Danny DeVito, dressed in a tight white nurse’s costume with padded sleeves and making...
Six days after responding to a friend’s Facebook post, Alexis McCarthy ’14 finds herself in a backyard filled with dancers, extras and cameras.
Her hair and makeup are done, and she has her choreography...
On her birthday last July, Tess Kemper ’15 pulled the ribbon off the gift her parents had given her and peered inside.
Inside was a product catalog for a cosmetic company called Doll Face. The last...
