By Brendan Beng ’26 Flight JL516 was a routine trip from New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, Japan to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. For all I knew, it would be just like every other flight I had taken. How wrong I turned out to be. The mood on the flight was calm.Read More
By Ana Bury ’25 To standardize any particular system is to assure consistency and regularity. The College Board and ACT Corporation insist that the scoring processes for their respective tests, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT), are fair and “standardized.” But how can they emphasize theseRead More
By Ava Hult-Falk ’27 Since my return to campus from fall break, I have been pleased to hear holiday carols constantly ringing in the hallways of Nichols dormitory. Inspired by this melodic backdrop and my own holiday spirit, I, along with my Nichols dormmates, have created a Christmas playlist withRead More
By Nilan Kathir ’25 As winter break approaches, the air at Choate has filled with holiday spirit from Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and more. These holidays are very important to their respective religious communities, but in recent years, the nature of these holidays has changed. By moving away fromRead More
By Arushi Krishnan ’27 When taking on the post five years ago, Director of Student Activities Ms. Alex Long decided to create catchy, wintery themes for every Holiday Ball (Hol Ball). “I love themes, and think they make events more fun,” she said. I completely agree with Ms. Long; themesRead More
By Chelsea Branch ’25 The air is getting crisper, and the trees are shedding their last leaves. People are taking out their puffer coats and chunky scarves that were gathering dust under the bed. Winterlude is finally here. Depending on who you ask, these two-and-a-half weeks between fall and winterRead More
By Fiona Fu ’25 Coming to Choate as an international student, long weekends did not excite me. After all, I couldn’t go home, and I didn’t have any family nearby. My friends would pack and go one by one, leaving me to languish in the empty halls of my dormRead More
By Francesca Howard ’26 To emulate the days off from school that students in several school districts in Connecticut get on holidays such as Yom Kippur and Diwali, Choate implemented no-homework-nights into the yearly calendar. For the most part, these nights fall on various religious and cultural holidays throughout theRead More
By Sky Hinton ’26 Do you wish for breakfast for dinner in the dining hall every night? I sincerely hope not, because breakfast is not dinner; it is breakfast. Consuming breakfast for dinner is not healthy nor practical and should be abolished in the dining hall. After long gruesome daysRead More
