“You have a long face. Your eyes are small. Have you ever considered losing weight? Your legs are as thick as elephants’” — the list goes on. Many people have heard these types of comments, from others or from themselves. Although body image is a struggle for many of us,Read More

Hunching over your laptop on what seems like a Zoom call set in gallery view, the boundary between actors and audience in this year’s annual Fringe Festival slowly blurs. Seeing the Zoom squares pop up one by one, you might even begin to feel that, instead of a spectator, youRead More

Inspired by the fantastical creatures and whimsy aesthetic of “Alice in Wonderland,” Visual Arts Concentration student Senching Hsia ’21 draws the audience down the rabbit hole with her recently completed scratchboard series. Solely composed of white lines with varying length and thickness, these three pieces — Emergence, Floral Fantasia, andRead More

Under dim yellow lights with guitar in hand, Ore Tejuoso ’21, a member of the music Arts Concentration program and the founder and vocalist of the student band Orange, performed her first single, “You,” in its official behind-the-scenes video. With a passion for singing since her childhood, Tejuoso made herRead More

Have you ever peered into the sky on a night out with friends or while stargazing solitarily during a stressful week, and suddenly thought you saw a bizarre moving silhouette? The fall play, Take-Away, invites its audience into a world of magical realism where unlucky high schoolers encounter an UFORead More

Graphic by Tony Lee/The Choate News The art of photography is capturing a fleeting moment; it recounts treasured memories and unique stories in a fraction of a second. This year, Photography Club is creating a new publication to promote photography on campus and provide students an opportunity to explore andRead More

It’s time for orchestra rehearsal. When you enter the room, you expect to see the familiar rows and rows of faces and instruments — but this year, awkward smiles greet you from muted laptops, and your stand partner waves to you from his room across the country. In these newRead More

Graphic by Tony Lee/The Choate News Since last year’s virtual spring term, Choate’s theater, music ensembles, and a cappella groups have adapted to the School’s “new normal” and are ready to embark upon the 2020-2021 school year with innovative ideas to solve the difficulties imposed by distance learning — startingRead More

By Angel Guo ’22 and Jessica Wu ’22 Mrs. Beth Peters was introduced to Choate by Mr. Charlie Long, a Spanish teacher at Choate, whom she met while working on her master’s degree one summer at Middlebury College, in Vermont. A year later, while she was living in Spain, Mr.Read More