Archive for April, 2018

Participants in last Sunday's Model United Nations Conference exchange ideas in Elman Auditorium.

Choate Hosts Model UN Conference

April 20, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

This past Sunday, over 150 students from 12 schools all over New England arrived at Choate to attend ChoateMUNC IV, the name for the fourth annual model U.N. conference hosted by Choate. Throughout the day, attendees broke up into five committees that varied in size, topic, and complexity. In theseRead More

Rigorous Choral Program Challenges Singers

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Chorus is known to be one of the most time-intensive and taxing extracurricular activities on Choate’s campus. Both Festival and Chamber Chorus hold lengthy rehearsals throughout the school week, which sometimes limits free time in students’ schedules. Festival Chorus meets from 7:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays.Read More

Choate students rely on athletic ability and academic success to get recruited by colleges.

INSIDE THE ATHLETIC RECRUITING PROCESS

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Many students at Choate apply to colleges and wait for their acceptances to decide where to spend the next four years of their lives. However, student-athletes who want to continue their sport at the collegiate level undergo a complex athletic recruiting process before deciding on a college. The recruiting cycleRead More

Inside the College Process: Extracurricular Activities

Inside the College Process: Extracurricular Activities

April 20, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

In February, the writer moderated a conversation about the college process among 11 sixth-formers. Their comments served as a starting point for this article. Choate students, with their many interests and aspirations, are bound to have different experiences here. And yet there seem to be certain unspoken rules governing theRead More

Chance Gorman ’18 carries the puck up the ice at the U.S.A. Hockey National Championships.

Club Teams: An Added Challenge for Choate Athletes

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Many athletes not only play varsity sports here at Choate, but also play on club teams outside of Choate and, of course, manage their school work and everything else they do here. Basketball player Sam Gallo ’19 plays for CT Impact; ice hockey players Effie Tournas ’20 and Christina TournasRead More

Student Council Recap

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​Reducing food waste, delivering Chick-fil-a and Chipotle to students, and hosting trustees are all in the works for Student Council as it continues to formulate a myriad of projects and proposals. ​Rising Fifth-form Representative Caroline Rispoli ’20 met with Mr. Joseph Scanio, Director of the Environmental Immersion Program, about theRead More

A Change of Season, A Change of Hairstyle

A Change of Season, A Change of Hairstyle

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The Choate wild boar shows spirit in the 2016-17 lip dub recording with Kate Newhouse ’18, Matias Meszaros ’17, and Esteban Mogollan ’18.

THE BOY IN THE BOAR? (IT’S JON JOEI ’18)

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The boar: Choate’s mascot and a ferocious, courageous, tusked, pig-like creature. While the boar has been a long-standing mascot for Choate Rosemary Hall, the boar suit has been largely absent this year, but in past years, the boar made numerous appearances at revisit day to greet accepted students, the fallRead More

Be a Leader for Your Community, Not Your Résumé

Be a Leader for Your Community, Not Your Résumé

April 20, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

  Most of us understand leadership as the ability to successfully guide a group of people. At Choate, leadership positions take many forms. On every athletic team, there are usually at least two captains. One can apply for prefectship, the Assessment Team, or Student Council. Every club offers leadership positions.Read More