Just before we left for winter break I found out where I’ll be going to college. This sudden news brought an incredible onslaught of both joy sadness. I was ecstatic to be done with the almost year long college application process (a struggle you might be going through now) and the fact that I was […]
Author Archives: Chris '12
Politics as usual
November has ushered in a new cold front, the temperature dipping well into the forties this week. Clouds creep up the valley and the rain has begun to pour. Unfortunately, softened by the California sunshine, I sit freezing in the library as I prepare for this week’s workload. Right now, I’m working on a project […]
Work and Play
We’re back to school and we’ve already been thrown into the thick of things. Senior year has become a juggling act between senior leadership duties, academics, extracurriculars, senior exhibitions, and college applications. This past week, my friend and I took a break from the college applications and our looming homework to shoot some photos for […]
Trail Work for a Week
I’m collecting my socks, water bottles, sunscreen, and backpack, looking forward to a week of trail maintenance in the Sespe. [Update: It rained for some of the trip, but we got a lot accomplished!]
On the Courts, in the Game
The blossoming of the orange trees surrounding campus marks the start of tennis season. Tennis, coinciding with the return of pool weather, signals the return of the age old phrase, “suns out, guns out.” Yesterday, I pulled on my Nike half-calfs (integral in the establishment of a nice sock tan), grabbed my rackets, and ran […]
Green Cup Challenge, Go!
Back on campus and it’s surprisingly colder than CT, still haven’t turned on the heater in my room though–my little part in the Green Cup Challenge 2011.
Into Art
This past weekend I headed down to LA to visit LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and the LA Farmer’s Market for a cultural weekend trip. We wandered around the museum with Mr. Robinson (who teaches AP Art History at Thacher) acting as our personal docent and showing us the works of Rembrandt, early […]
Busy’s How it Is
Tonight I’m sitting in my room staring at my computer screen, trying to write an essay on economic expansion during the end of the 19th century. So far I have my thesis: “The forces of unrestrained capitalism allowed for a small number of powerful interest groups to have an inordinate amount of power and that […]
Riding in the Sky
Sometimes we forget, amidst the day-to-day tasks, the beauty that surrounds us. Often we look past the sunset, spoiled by the countless number of them we’ve seen, forgetting how lucky we truly are. With all the tests and essays to conquer, it seems hard to really take a step back and appreciate the simple things. […]
Last Leg
The thought of Thanksgiving break is all that is pulling me through this crazy week. The week before break has traditionally been the week where all the teachers lay their final assignments on you; History presentations, Math, Environmental science, Chinese, and Biology tests, English essays, and on top of that, a new season of sports. […]