Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News After months stuck inside because of the pandemic, with no one but my family to talk to, coming to Choate was a breath of fresh air. I went from sitting through dull dinner conversations and watching YouTube in my room to socializing with differentRead More

The steady hum of the bus pierced my thoughts. The ride felt unusually rough that day, though perhapsthat was just the feeling of my heart pounding with anticipation and trepidation. Outside the window, I saw the familiar flashes of Wallingford — the subway that took me an hour to findRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News I’m waiting in the passenger seat of the car, staring into the side mirror at a gas station. I get confused; I see myselfmoving in the mirror, but I’m sitting still. It isn’t until the person in the mirror gets into her car andRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News An environmental movement led by the African Union is gaining momentum, with an ambitious goal to grow 8,000 km of vegetation across the Sahel region in Africa. Launched in 2007, The Great Green Wall, is regenerating a critical ecoregion of the world that hasRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News In 1982, Ben Chavis, a Black man in Warren County, North Carolina, was pulled over and arrested for speaking out about the state’s decision to dump miles of contaminated soil in a Black farming community. As he was thrown in jail, he proclaimed, “ThisRead More

In addition to a worldwide death toll of three million, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it an extreme environmental impact. The issue of medical waste disposal has become a global problem with the increased use of respirators, face shields, goggles, gloves, and gowns — most of which are designedRead More

During the recent Community Conversation on Jewish identity, Director of Equity and Inclusion Dr. Rachel Myers announced the topic of the next, and final, Community Conversation of the year. As leaders of the Hispanic Latiné Forum (HLF), we had hoped Dr. Myers would say that the conversation would feature HispanicRead More

Photo Courtesy of Cassatt Boatwright/The Choate News I was first introduced to Choate when my older brother, Wesley Boatwright ’22, started applying to high schools. He had just come home from a long and tiring high school fair and threw a stack of boarding school brochures onto my lap. AlthoughRead More

Photo Courtesy of Peter DiNatale Last May, I became the owner of six baby ducklings. Like many others during the quarantine, I was searching for an escape from the emotional burden of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Around the start of that spring, my first instinct was to start a garden. But,Read More