You may remember an article I wrote a few weeks ago about Forgotten Country, in which I reflected on Choate’s tradition of assigning a book for the entire student body to read over the summer. However, the process doesn’t end with the last page: it continues into the school year,Read More

How do we socially organize ourselves at Choate? Dorms, clubs, and ensembles are all ways that we connect with each other while exploring common interests, but there is one type of organization missing from the list: affinity groups. Affinity groups are organizations comprised solely of people who identify with aRead More

Kiki Kim ’20 deliberates on the impact of Forgotten Country, the 2018 book of the summer, and the experience of summer reading as a whole [Graphic by Chandler Littleford/ The Choate News].

  Where I come from, boarding school is an unconventional choice. Only two people left my school after the eighth grade: a girl who went to Thacher, and I. After considering boarding schools in eighth grade, I chose to attend a local high school for two years before finally decidingRead More

On April 8, I and five fellow Choate students woke up bright and early on a Sunday morning and boarded a bus to Deerfield to participate in the Asian American Footsteps Conference. We went to connect ourselves a little more with the Asian-American experience. The day started on a highRead More

On April 8, Michigan announced that it will no longer be distributing free bottled water to the residents of Flint, the town that switched water sources from Lake Huron to Flint River to reduce government expenses in 2014. The switch sparked a series of public-health problems and brought to lightRead More

On January 5, tens of thousands of copies of Fire and Fury rolled into bookstores, where they were quickly snatched up by eager customers. With paper, audio, and eBook copies combined, there have been over 400,000 books sold, with more than 1,000,000 on order. The cover, a reunion between aRead More

California has long housed some of the strongest LGBT+ communities in the world: San Francisco is known as the gay capital of the world; Los Angeles had the first openly gay mayor in America; and the first legally married gay couple were wed in California. The list goes on, andRead More