Héloïse Schep attends Amherst College in Massachusetts. She hasn’t declared a major, but she’s considering political science or Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought, or LJST, an Amherst-specific major. Q: Why did you decide to return to campus? A: I felt…
History teacher Bill Crabb’s Mapping Group club focuses on using open source tools to help map different areas around the world. Junior Arijit Trivedi has mapped an entire village in the Philippines that was hit by a typhoon. His job…
From sketching anime-style drawings in the third grade to selling her award-winning gouache painting for $250, senior Olivia Chilelli is Country Day’s art prodigy as she continues to pursue her artistic dreams. Chilelli first took art seriously when she was…
Larkin Barnard-Bahn, ’20, is a freshman at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She is fully online due to the pandemic and is double minoring in data science and Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures. Q: What college are…
Spencer Scott, ’20, is a freshman at The University of Chicago. He enjoys the chilly weather along with the street food around the corner. Spencer is majoring in medieval studies. Q: Why did you choose to attend the University of…
As a child, senior Allie Bogetich always was surrounded by music, from Billy Joel to ACDC to Neil Diamond. So her interest in music came as no surprise. When she was a fourth-grader, Bogetich bet her older sister, Emme Bogetich,…
There are 13 sets of twins at Country Day. Some of the twins and their parents shared memorable childhood experiences. — By Emily Cook Originally published in the Oct. 20 edition of the Octagon.
“I wish I had gotten it done before senior year,” senior Hana Lee said, reflecting back on her “not too serious” attitude toward community service in her freshman year. Lee is one of 40 seniors who hasn’t completed her required…
Quarantine has made staying in contact with friends or relatives difficult, but with technology, not impossible. Students have become more open to trying new things because for some, the average day-to-day texting quickly gets old. Senior Allie Bogetich used to…
