In the second installment of the Gaming Spotlight series, junior Dylan Margolis reviews the new Call of Duty battle royale, Warzone. Released March 10, the most recent Call of Duty game, Warzone, provides a new take on the battle royale,…
Wow. Just like that, my four years of high school are over as it’s time to bid farewell to Country Day. When I transferred to SCDS as a fourth grader, I never could’ve predicted the next eight years of my…
Inspired by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Octagon asked administrators, teachers and students about their best and worst habits picked up during the quarantine as well as their best discoveries. Head of school Lee Thomsen Best habit: “I’ve been regularly…
Normally, I would be in the middle of swim season right now, spending most of my free time in the pool working out. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been unable to swim for almost two months. I…
Trying to come up with something meaningful to sum up my high school experience and say goodbye to this chapter of my life has not been easy — especially after sitting in isolation for over two months. My spirits right…
After working as Country Day’s director of admission for three years, Hadley Keefe has accepted the same position at Kingsley Montessori School in Boston. She worked in admissions at Lycée Francais de San Francisco before Country Day. Before Keefe, Lonna…
In the first installment of the Gaming Spotlight series, junior Dylan Margolis reviews one of his all-time favorite video games: Uncharted. This is probably the best series of video games ever made. Uncharted follows a story in which players fight…
I’ll be blunt: I was sorely tempted to use this story to rant about Country Day’s shortcomings. But with the current state of the world, I figured we’re all sad enough as it is. Instead, here are five reasons the…
With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping through the country and everyone being stuck at home, I wanted to try a new hobby: photography. I have always wanted to learn how to take pictures properly, so I used this time to do…
Jamie Pedersen, a psychiatric clinical counselor and the mother of junior Connor Pedersen, recently told a sad story about one of her patients, a high school senior. “It was her last year (in theater class), and the sets she designed…
