Articles by: Ethan Luk '20

A Farewell to Blackout Poetry

April 12, 2019 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

A couple months ago, I took on the somewhat daunting task of trying to create blackout poetry out of Choate-related texts that seemed forgotten or “boring.” From scouring the student handbook to reading old letters from former headmistress Caroline Rutz-Rees, I hoped to excavate unexpected beauty from the mundane, toRead More

Black Out: For Lack of a Better Word

Black Out: For Lack of a Better Word

February 15, 2019 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

I’m riddled with the plague of self-doubt. Whether I’m in a music practice room or in an empty dance studio, I am always aware of my flaws: be it a missed harmonic on the violin, or an unpointed foot. Even during a performance, when I am supposed to let goRead More

Page From Headmistress Caroline Ruutz-Rees’s letters to Rosemary Hall Girls, Nov. 15, 1905
(from Letters to Rosemary 1905-1906)

Black Out: For Lack of a Better Word

February 15, 2019 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

  I’m riddled with the plague of self-doubt. Whether I’m in a music practice room or in an empty dance studio, I am always aware of my flaws: be it a missed harmonic on the violin, or an unpointed foot. Even during a performance, when I am supposed to letRead More

Black Out: For Lack of a Better Word

January 25, 2019 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

I’ve always been mesmerized by the idea of joy: why do pops of color on a painting seem to invoke more smiles than a grey, overcast sky? Or why do we never fail to laugh when standing at the crash of a wave? One of the books I return toRead More

Question of the Week: Should Choate Have Cheerleaders?

Question of the Week: Should Choate Have Cheerleaders?

May 11, 2018 at 11:57 pm Comments are Disabled

Before I came to Choate, my view of American culture was limited to three things: the Statue of Liberty, the Hollywood sign, and High School Musical. Like many international students, I thought that cheerleading was a staple of the quintessential American high school experience: bleachers filled with students on aRead More

Bring It On became a musical after the movie became famous.

Bring It On: Spring 2018

February 2, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

This coming spring, Choate will stage Bring It On, the hit Broadway musical based on the eponymous cult classic movie. Bring It On features the music and lyrics of Tom Kitt, Amanda Green, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Lin-Manuel Miranda is most famously known for his work on the Tony-award winning musicalRead More

Violin teacher Ms. Artemis T. Simerson performed a beautiful violin solo during the concert last Sunday.

Faculty Music Concert Inspires

October 6, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

  sic faculty serenaded the community during their afternoon recital held at the Chapel. It was an afternoon of diverse music, fervent passion, and lots of soulful playing. The recital began with an original piece by violinist Mr. Netta Hadari, who was recently appointed as the new conductor of theRead More

Creative Writing Capstone No Longer Signature Program

January 20, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

For many years, the Creative Writing Capstone has been one of Choate’s Signature Academic Programs, but that well-known fact is now about to change. Next year, the Creative Writing Capstone will officially find its new identity as an advanced elective available for more sixth form students, though the curriculum ofRead More

The 140-acre Paddock Farm produces a lush harvest of apples each year, and Mr. Erik Freeman hopes to maintain the orchards and flowerbeds.

Ian Morris Has Left, but the Beauty of Paddock Farm Remains

October 28, 2016 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Imagine Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony come to life: the colorful opening translated into rustling autumn leaves, the vivid interplay between strings and woodwinds morphed into larks soaring over a bounty of harvest, and there you have it — Paddock Farm, an area near the Kohler Environmental Center (KEC) with a facultyRead More