Students and faculty share their resolutions for 2021
As the new year commences, Country Day students and faculty celebrated by sharing their goals and resolutions for 2021. Shivom Sharma In addition to schoolwork, sophomore Shivom Sharma trades stocks every day from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sharma trades…
FRESHMAN FOCUS: Jason Li, ’20, enjoys hiking while attending online classes at University of Tsinghua in Beijing, China from US
Jason Li, ’20, attends online classes at the University of Tsinghua in Beijing, China, while living in the U.S. and is majoring in architecture. Q: Why did you choose your college and major? A: I chose my college because it…
EDITORIAL: Red or blue, we’re all American
On Jan. 20, America welcomed its 46th president. Years of unrest have finally come to an end. Due to the lies of the last presidency, tensions between the two parties have been pushed to the peak, and the country became…
FRESHMAN FOCUS: Héloïse Schep, ’20, enjoys political science classes in person at Amherst
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…
Mapping group club maps areas hit by natural disasters
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…
CLASS OF 2021: Senior Olivia Chilelli is Country Day’s art prodigy winning congressional art competition
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…
‘The Queen’s Gambit’: A celebration of chess
The Queen’s Gambit follows Beth Harmon’s (Anya Taylor-Joy) chess career from 8-year-old orphan to international superstar as she battles problems with addiction. Anya Taylor-Joy’s acting was one of the best parts of the show. I had high expectations after seeing…
FRESHMAN FOCUS: Larkin Barnard-Bahn, ’20, enjoys working on her school newspaper, The Student Life
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…
GENERATION GREAT: The importance of early educational intervention
The end of the semester brought lots of success for Generation Great amidst the chaos of this crazy time. But I also found myself reflecting on a much larger topic — the importance of early education. When I first started…
EDITORIAL: GG parents, but video games still aren’t that bad
“Turn that off before you melt your brain.” Almost every child who consistently plays video games has heard something along those lines. From quiet grunts of disapproval to enraged scoldings, the message is clear: many parents don’t believe video games…