Senior Bryan Akin always has people sliding into his direct messages on Instagram.  And no, despite his tall, athletic, six-foot stature, those DMs are not going to his personal Instagram account;...

“French fries from McDonald’s are fake,” said Johnny Griggs, a junior in the “Fast Food” class. “They’re not real fries. It’s like chemicals.” McDonald’s is arguably most notable...

All of a sudden, the only thing that filled the room was a booming pop sound that disrupted not only the quiet environment that was needed for the script-writing portion of class but also started the rowdiness...

“¡Buen provecho!” Ms. Vanessa Zamudio said to her students before digging into Mi Pueblito’s authentic Colombian food. “Buen provecho” is Spanish for “enjoy your food.” Students ate traditional...

“A lot of the world focuses too much on how many details there are, but it doesn’t talk about how it interconnects,” said Dr. Adam Capitano. Upper School chemistry teacher.  Dr. Capitano’s...

Dr. Jenny Howell enjoys watching “trashy” shows.  “I turn my hobby, which is watching sometimes trashy television, into a class,” Howell said.  She brought her hobby into a class named...

“The Man on the Moon” written by Alice Ma, a junior, is about the journey of a girl who loves the sky. One day she looks up and sees the man on the moon, and she wants to go visit him.  Ma wrote...

“Betrayal is the best part of the game,” said junior Alexander Farahbod.  Diplomacy, a game where players play as countries in 20th century Europe and fight for dominance of Europe, is a game full...

The sound of students from Ms. Brittany Cousins’ classroom could be heard as they discussed fat phobia by describing multiple overweight characters in Harry Potter books and how their author J.K. Rowling...

One might never expect a bird known for its aggressiveness to be near campus, even less inside classrooms.  But, in the interim course “Birds of Feather,” students made up-close observations of...

Scents flooded the room as many different foods cooked amid the noise from each side conversation. Students discussed what recipes they were thinking of cooking next as they waited for their soups to...

Chinese watercolor may hold a key to relaxation during the pandemic. Why? Because the focus and precision of the art form is a type of meditation, said Ms. Paula Lin, Upper School Mandarin teacher. “Art...