Dylan Allen ’22 Dylan Allen ’22 is a junior from Hackensack, New Jersey. She runs cross country and also captains the Girls’ Varisty Lacrosse Team. She said, “I’ve dreamed of being on Boar Pen since I was sitting on the woodcourt in the X at pep rally freshman year. SeeingRead More

On February 10, the Asian Student Association (ASA) hosted an event in partnership with Compassionate Home Action Together (CHATogether), an Asian mental wellness initiative founded by Dr. Eunice Yuen, a Yale researcher and child psychiatrist specializing in Asian and Asian-American mental health. The event consisted of a scene played outRead More

Following the violent attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, Director of Equity and Inclusion Dr. Rachel Myers sent an email to students and faculty condemning the actions of the rioters, providing resources compiled by the Current Events Resource Group (CERG), and offering a Zoom event as an opportunity toRead More

Anxiety over the college admissions process is hardly a new struggle for Choate students. Some have focused their entire high-school career on accumulating club leadership positions, stressing over their A to A+ ratio, and training to snag varsity letters. Others are less worried; they focus on their relationships first andRead More

After enjoying vacations at sunny resorts and enduring long, jet-lag-inducing flights, returning to campus from break can be disappointing to students. Approaching midterms pile onto the disappointment from the start of school. Fed up with drowsy classes and inattentive students, teachers find creative ways to keep students focused.  Science teacherRead More

Snow-capped mountains, deep valleys featuring flowing rivers, and Buddhist temples instantly come to mind for most when Bhutan is mentioned. An exotic getaway, Bhutan seems like the perfect way for travelers to escape from the pressures of daily life. However, this stereotypical outlook on Bhutan and many other Himalayan countriesRead More

Every weekend at Choate, after five long days of quizzes, tests, and sports practices, dozens of students head to restaurants and movie theaters in town to relax. With only a small percentage of day students able to drive and rules against  boarding students having cars on campus, the demand forRead More

Around this time of year, tensions are high as tech week begins: when Student Directed Scenes and the winter production rehearse with the various technology needed to put on a show. “Tech week is typically for the big school productions as well as for the smaller ones such as SDS,”Read More

Choate has a sprawling campus that occupies around 458 acres of land, all of which is home to hundreds of classrooms, studios, study rooms, and more. Yet, there seems to be much of campus that many students, even seniors, have yet to see. One of these more mysterious rooms isRead More