Graphic by Yujin Kim ’23 When carefully considering all the options I had for high school back in eighth grade, I made an extensive pros-and-cons list of each school and its academic programs. In retrospect, applying to private boarding schools was a choice of immense privilege that I did notRead More

Photo courtesy of CNN In the far west corner of China lies the territory of Xinjiang, which is three times the size of France and covers a vast expanse of deserts, mountains, and grasslands. This territory, home to more than one million Uighur Muslims, has been the center of numerousRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim ’23 Covid-19 is not the only pandemic that Latin America is facing. Latin America’s nutrition crisis has grown increasingly worse over the past year, and unfortunately, Covid has not helped the situation. In just the past year, the number of people without access to adequate foodRead More

Photo courtesy of Yujin Kim ’23 Dear Miss Tiffany Xiao, We regret to inform you that our credible sources have leaked information that lead us to question your competence as a Choate student. This investigation is still in its early stages, so consider gathering some friends from the mock trialRead More

Graphic courtesy of Katherine Chong ’25 What time did you wake up this morning? Five o’clock? Six o’clock? 7:59 a.m. just before the start of your English class? These answers differ across the student body depending on different variables — if you’re a morning person, if you go to breakfastRead More

Graphic courtesy of Yujin Kim ’23 Many people are amused when I tell them that I speak English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. I grew up in Hong Kong, where the local language is Cantonese, a dialect of Chinese. I was exposed to English and Mandarin at a young age, as theyRead More

Graphic courtesy of Yujin Kim ’23 The 26th Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, kicked off in Glasgow on October 31. The summit brings countries together in an attempt to solve climate problems and accelerate action toward the goals set by the Paris Climate Accord and the UNRead More

Photo courtesy of The Hill In the days since the November 2, 2021 elections, the long-standing, popular media outlets, Fox News and CNN, have been vigorously debating reasons that lead to the Virginia Gubernatorial race “upset” of Democrat Terry McAuliffe by Republican Glenn Youngkin. The wildest claim is that McAuliffeRead More

Graphic courtesy of Brian Yip ’24 The app that has almost 1.9 billion users on a daily basis — you guessed it, Facebook — has undergone a rebranding, but has anything really changed? The new name, “Metaverse” represents a new era in Facebook technology. But while a new name mayRead More