This past week, the administration announced a surprise holiday! Nostalgic for the experiences of freshmen year, having just watched the freshmen parent weekend demonstrations a few of my friends and I went for a long trail ride on the horses we rode our freshmen year. As the trail brought us higher into the mountains I […]
Archives: Lucy ’13
Holiday Change-Up
My roommate and I have started a tradition of changing our room around every holiday. Yesterday being a holiday we set to work moving beds, desks, and lamps to find a new set-up for our room. It’s hard with lots of stuff to fit in, but it’s really fun to have a new set-up. Our […]
Sunday Rejuvenation
A recent addition to The Thacher School’s schedule is Sunday town runs. Especially for those playing varsity sports this is a great thing as it means that if you can’t make it into town on Wednesday or Saturday you can on Sunday. Last Sunday a couple of friends and I went into town on a […]
Five Things
I often find myself reflecting on how special and unique Thacher is, so I decided to make a list of five things that make Thacher the special and wonderful place that it is. 1. Where else could half the school sing along to a Disney song playing on the TV in your headmaster’s house on […]
Returning to Friends
While the rainy weather that we’ve had since coming back from break could make it harder to readjust to life at school, I actually find my friends, being back in the dorm and back on campus generates enough sunshine to outshine the rain :)
Trading East Coast Ice for Powder
Before Thacher I’d always been a fairly good skier, plus being from the East Coast, my skiing experiences were made up of navigating icy terrain in sub-zero weather. The thought that you could ski in powder when it was 60 degrees out or even in California had never crossed my mind, until Thacher gave me […]
Just like old times
Tonight study hall was a little different from the typical study hall. Instead of curling up in our rooms, four other girls and I made our way down to Mrs. And Mr. Mulligan’s house. Mrs. Mully was our advisor last year and as a special advisee reunion, she invited us over to spend study hall […]
Galileo Would be Welcome Here
In English class we’re reading Galileo by Bertolt Brecht. During the book, Galileo’s assistant (a young student) is faced with the fact that the church will willingly reject knowledge in order to maintain the facts about the universe that they have preached for the past two thousand years. To Andrea (the assistant) this comes as an unbelievable […]
There’s No Place like Homes
The first thing I see as I walk towards the common room is the flames dancing in the air, illuminated by the soft glow of the moon. An unexpected treat to roast marshmallows and make s’mores around a fire after check-in. Before long, several girls have guitars and their talent is floating through the air, […]
In and Out of the Classroom
Class doesn’t start for a couple of minutes, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t already learning. Our teacher and a couple of us are already in a heated discussion about Canadian versus American bacon and the computers are already out fingers flying across the keyboard as Google settles our discussion. Yet we all transition quickly […]