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With Spring Break fast approaching, Concord Academy students need to think about all the different things they could do with their...
On February 1, 2024, the Community and Equity Office cordially invited Dr. Sa'ed Atshan and Dr. Karen Ross, two scholars originating...
Dear Freshman,
Common trust is foundational to Concord Academy, and it is only when our foundation cracks that we realize...
Named TIME’s Person of the Year and boosting the U.S. economy by billions of dollars, the power and influence that Taylor Swift...
We, as human beings, often pride ourselves on our morals: a set of personally informed fundamental values that enable us to approach...
While many shops, schools, and banks closed the third Monday of January in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Concord Academy...
On an auspicious morning in the winter of 2021-2022, I did something I no longer do: I entered the Chapel from the front entrance...
Four months ago, I left Concord Academy, along with the rest of my life in Massachusetts, behind, and embarked on a new journey...
In recent times, the four-point grading scale has become increasingly popular, and numerous educators have adopted it for assessing...
The Community and Equity office decided to take an alternate approach to celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year. In place...
Sophomores: you have ten days to make the most wonderful decision of your life. Until February 15, you have the chance to apply...
What do King Tut, David Bowie, Kim Kardashian, and Nina Simone all have in common? For starters, their iconic eyeliner. While many...
February 14 marks Valentine's Day, a holiday symbolizing love and romance. The day—originally commemorating St. Valentine’s burial—has...
Anyone who indulges in the music industry is familiar with the name “Taylor Swift.” From winning 12 Grammys to being named “Artist...
The thought of reselling a holiday gift will almost certainly come to one’s mind when a gift is disliked or found not very useful.
On November 13, 2023, I opened my email to find a new announcement from Schoology detailing how Concord Academy would conduct the...
On December 24, 2022, I retrieved a neon green sticky note to engage in an annual tradition of self-renewal: setting new year resolutions.
Each year as December rolls around, many of us all over the world wait in anticipation for the release of the infamous Spotify...
The Scholastic Aptitude Test, known as the SAT, can be a defining factor in a student’s college application process. Though most...
The past few weeks of conflict in the Israel-Palestine region have proved devastating to the global community. The generational...
As November approaches and you breathe in the crisp autumn air, a palpable tension amid the journey of learning lingers. Perhaps...
On October 24, 2023, tens and thousands of non-binary individuals and women , including the Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir...
I am time and again impressed by the boldness of the videos on social media. In one Snapchat video by @louisparcell captioned,...
Gathered with family around the Thanksgiving table, I’ve always found comfort and joy in the traditions of this November holiday.
Nothing should be categorized by the consumer's gender. Colors, toys, skincare, clothing should never be produced just for a defined...
In the summer of 2020, as protests roiled the streets and racial tensions reached a boiling point, Boston University made a groundbreaking...
In a world with over 8 billion people in it, there is no real one size fits all system. Fundamentally, everyone is different. Everyone...
On a dark, chill night in Concord, my sister and I lugged our bags down Main Street to our car. It was another day of trekking...
Unreasonable politicians. Endless back and forth. Zero compromises. Does anything ever change in American politics? The recent...
The Massachusetts Port Authority, also known as Massport, is a quasi-public agency that owns and operates three of Massachusetts’s...
On September 18, 2023, Concord Academy's Community & Equity office announced the introduction of Culture Clubs via an email to...
Immigration has become a hot topic as the number of illegal border crossings to the US remains at a record high, at about 2.8 million...
My favorite time of year is fall, also known as pumpkin spice season. While others might count down the days until Christmas, waiting for the flavors...
With the 2023-2024 academic year in full swing, a few poignant changes have caused a stir among Concord Academy students. One such hot topic...
The idea of college is one of the most significant parts of my life. As senior year gets closer and closer, the challenge of college seems to loom...
Clubs are an integral part of the Concord Academy community. These spaces bring people together to explore activities outside of the classroom...
You have likely already heard of some general advice regarding your new life here at Concord Academy, but this advice is specifically for those who are trans...
The ongoing West Campus construction will cause all sorts of headaches during the 2023-24 school year, and the biggest hassle of all will be the parking situation...
Concord Academy’s proximity to the town center of Concord is one of the many things that makes the CA experience unique. While each member of the community...
Navigating freshman year can be exciting, but it is also daunting at first glance. It may be overwhelming to think about the next four years and how you will...
In an era of Buzzfeed personality tests and "Would You Rather?" quizzes, it seems that everything we do or choose inevitably reveals an aspect of our personalities. Prefer fro-yo to ice cream? Then you must enjoy sul...
For the majority of my life, I have lived with allergies to eggs and tree nuts. My allergies began when I was around three years old, after grabbing a handful of eggs and promptly breaking out in hives. Then at age five, I wa...
In early April 2016, over 11 million documents were leaked from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm. Known as the Panama Papers, these documents implicated some of the world's most powerful and influential figures—from s...
Amid a rise of national scrutiny of the addictive and harmful qualities of social media, Instagram reels deserves a go under the microscope. Reels consists of short videos designed to trap people in an endless scroll to an un...
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Every year I lose perhaps one hundred hours of high-functioning time due to a certain mental p...
Recently, in the past year or so, a trend has formed which involves the act of comparing people to NPCs. “NPC,” or “non-player character,” is a common term used in video g...
Concord Academy is a place that prides itself on its academically rigorous environment, and though this philosophy of hard work deeply permeates student life, time to celebrate is appreciated every once in a while. Like many ...
“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” –George Orwell, “Why I Write”
Why do we sing when we are terrible at singing?...
The college culture at Concord Academy is quite the hot topic. What some call amazing and supportive, others call excessive and limiting.
In some ways, our school doe...
Annually, on the third Monday of January, countless schools, businesses, banks, and gov...
I think it comes as news to no one that holidays are massive commercial opportunities for businesses. Christmas, perhaps, is the most infamous example. Every big company jumps to decorate their store in the theme of the upcom...
Two years ago, The Daily Targum of Rutgers University published an article titled “Don't be fooled: Valentine’s Day is just another capitalistic money-making scheme.” Here, Meredith MacLean’s prose is fiery and force...
We are facing a quiet crisis of identity. The crisis penetrates through the shell of contemporary society, breaking, cracking, and scratching at our insides. It most visibly manifests itself when you answer the question “Who ...
ChatGPT. OpenAI’s newest language model and currently the most advanced publicly available chatbot in the world. ChatGPT’s ability to create content has far exceeded most people’s expectations, appearing to be more than the m...
Concord Academy has always held fast to its tenet of building a more sustainable future. As members of the community, we see this sentiment reflected all over campus. Compost bins, meatless Mondays, and automated lights are a...
REQUEST: when (or after) reading this article, please play “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie
Even at the best schools, most learning is done outside of the...
Perhaps you have seen the phrase ‘sad beige baby’ floating around in recent months. Perhaps you have no idea what I am talking about and are beginning to feel very concerned for the aforementioned sad baby. If you belong to t...
When one thinks of Lunar New Year, images of red lanterns plastered all throughout Chinatown, envelopes stuffed like content bellies with green leaves of money or the wafting smells of mirin, star anise, and oyster sauce may ...
Many people at Concord Academy feel that there is not enough time between sports seasons. As a member of girl’s soccer, my season ended on Wednesday, November 9, while cross-country and boys varsity soccer seasons extended th...
On November 24, the fourth Thursday of the month, millions of Americans will unite with their families to eat turkey, express gratitude, and watch football. Many will eat pie, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and m...
Veterans Day at Concord Academy has long been a topic of debate. Students and faculty alike discuss the question of whether or not we should take the day off. On one hand, it is a day to honor and respect veterans who have fo...
Any Concord Academy student will tell you that finals are exhausting. Classes are all ending simultaneously, and there are exams, papers, and projects all within the span of a few days. I talked to Director of Studies Alyse R...
Content warning: Mention of gun violence and pedophilia
In 1997, in West Paducah Kentucky, 14-year-old Micheal Corneal opened fire into a group of high sch...
Announcements have always been an essential part of Concord Academy culture. Whether it is a message from a leader of our school, a faculty member, or even a random one-off from a student, this time has rendered itself a valu...
Concord Academy houses multiple all-gender bathrooms as a way to be more inclusive to non-binary, gender-nonconforming, and transgender students. Even though students are allowed in the stalled, binary bathroom that best matc...
As a culture, we have come to believe that, as individuals, we do not hold any value within our society unless we are constantly contributing to its improvement. We idolize people who are always busy and ridicule those who ta...
It is beautiful to be real. To feel the not-quite-crunch of burnt smores across the roof of your mouth. To blink open your eyes against a swarm of water droplets settling across the sides of a waterfall. To speak a single wor...
Every year, Concord Academy 10th and 11th graders are required to take the PSAT. This time-consuming, expensive test seems like it conflicts with CA’s values, yet, as it does every fall, CA administered the PSAT on the mornin...
Here in Concord, we are lucky enough to have a multitude of cafés to choose from to get our caffeine fix, and this fall I set out on a mission to discover which Concord café produces the best PSL. At every store, I ordered th...
During break the other day, I heard some of my classmates talking about the release of Hocus Pocus 2. This got me thinking about how the Salem witch trials are displayed nowadays as entertainment, and they take away ...
There is a quietness that exists here that I do not get in Saigon.
I hear constantly the small hum of a quiet suburbia, a town riddled with stillness and quietness an...
I hate to be one of those people who goes on a semester away and then continues to talk about it for the next half of their time on Earth, but my time away has awakened me to a realization. It seems that the increasingly prev...
Have you ever felt that clubs at CA are a little too disorganized? I’ve often felt that there are too many clubs that are super disorganized or rarely meet. Clubs, especially the more serious ones, should use Schoology to inc...
The Queen is dead. She was the latest iteration of queenship: a ceremonial position that through existing should have helped her nation hold itself together by giving it a common identity. Now not only the Commonwealth nation...
On September 12, 2022, the free speech advocacy organization PEN America hosted a conference in New York City, a highlight of the group’s centenary celebrations. Featured speakers at the Words on Fire: Writing, Freedom, a...
The new schedule for the upcoming school year is virtually a copy of last year’s schedule, but with a few logical changes. This year, CA fixed some of the things that had been minor issues.
On June 24th, my phone screen lit up with notifications. The postdoc at the lab where I worked over the summer ran out of the sterile room, still dressed in her lab coat and goggles. My heart sank in my chest. Doctors and res...
The Formal Dance is an end-of-year event that everyone looks forward to. This year, the email containing the sign up sheet for Formal tickets shocked everyone: the price per ticket was one hundred dollars. Controversy of whet...
A walk through the lower SHAC will take you past dozens of images of old athletic teams from years ago. If you take a close look at these images you will notice a few golf teams of the past. Like myself, you may have thought,...
It is not uncommon to see Concord Academy welcome speakers. We host our own almost every morning. Speeches are hard. Long speeches are very hard. A good speech can change minds. So what made Ed Rafferty’s speech, delivered at...
Though it feels as if this school year just began, the end of Concord Academy’s 2021-2022 academic year is rapidly approaching. This time of year is often an exciting one, with new opportunities abound for our seniors a...
When I first saw Darley Boit’s ’21 Centipede article in the work-in-progress folders of last year’s May issue, I did not know what to ...
On March 8, Florida’s Senate passed the Parental Rights in Education Bill, more commonly known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a title that has caused an uproar of backlash from LGBTQ+ rights activists and allies.
Last semester, instead of beginning my junior year at Concord Academy, I drove three hours north to join the Chewonki Maine Coast Semester Program’s sixty-seventh semester. The Chewonki Foundation operates a variety of progra...
Last month, the Winter Olympics happened, and figure skating Twitter promptly exploded. Called by some a tragedy and by others an embarrassment, the story, too, died down in the weeks following, leaving behind a sour aftertas...
Most people know Presidents’ Day as a day off when students do not go to school and most of the professional world is shut down. Everyone enjoys a day of sleeping in and relaxation in the midst of their chaotic lives. But, th...
While we all know and love the food that the wonderful Stu-Fac provides for us here at Concord Academy, sometimes, you just want pizza. And in Concord, with several options, it is hard to choose where to get that pizza from. ...
What happens when you add a mix of a global pandemic, political tension, and a sprinkle of bad management to a capitalist economy that relies on the markets to subsist? You get a lot of politicians and economists biting their...
Recently, there has been a growing concern around the world of Russia’s aggressive plans to potentially invade Ukraine, a former Soviet republic. Russian officials argue that Ukraine had been rightfully theirs ever since the ...
When I close my eyes, darkness prevails. No matter how hard I try, I cannot see my mom’s face. I cannot even see a flash of color. I cannot visually replay any memory. I thought that all of this was completely normal until on...
This being my first year studying abroad, I am no stranger to homesickness or the constant reminder that I am 7,286 miles away from my hometown Shanghai. With much of my surroundings at Concord Academy still seeming a little ...
More than two months ago, US-based mega-corporation Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook, announced its name change to Meta while announcing its intent to spearhead the creation of the “metaverse,” a network of vir...
Having talked to many of my peers about their fears relating to COVID, a response I have heard often is “I’m not really worried about getting COVID and feeling sick, I am more worried about getting someone else sick.” Maybe t...
Marvel studio’s Endgame is perhaps one of the most commercially successful films of all time. It was the ultimate battle, the gathering of all the fan-favorite characters in Marvel’s previous films. The computer-gene...
In recent years, the rise in the wellness industry’s metaphysical crystal market has caused many to raise concerns with these crystals’ ties to child labor and unethical production. Crystals, such as amethyst, rose quartz, an...
This election day marked another step forward for diversity in American politics. Abdullah Hammoud became the first Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, bringing long-awaited representation to the city’s middle-eastern constit...
The proposals of a new electrical bill in Mexico endangers the long-lasting relationship between Mexico and the United States. Both Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) have a long path ahead of them if maintainin...
The transition to virtual learning saw many changes, the biggest one being the use of the app Zoom to conduct classes. No matter where students and teachers were located, they could come together at a given time and have a cl...
Left in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, disruption to global supply chains caused delayed delivery of foreign-made goods. Over 114 million people worldwide lost their jobs due to the pandemic. Despite an increase in vaccin...
I have been a boarder at Concord Academy since my freshman year. Over half of my CA career, I have been subject to the room check. For those who are not familiar with this term, the room check is when house parents come aroun...