As my Thacher graduation date is ever looming closer, I can’t help but begin to form a bucket list of things I want to do before I leave. And in terms of my senior year, I think I’ve already done a pretty good job. This year I have sung in a coffee-house, written for the more »
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Working away…
This week the Seniors have big deadline for our Senior Exhibition coming up. The Senior Exhibition is a year long research project on any subject of our choice. My chosen topic is Industrial Farming and the Loss of Heritage Breeds, and I couldn’t be happier. Every time I read about my topic or do a more »
Star of the Week
AP Psychology reading, calculus problems, researching my civil wars country, working on AP studio art portfolio, finish my English writing assignment…Oh, and don’t forget: make your star of the week poster! Yes, this was indeed added to the to-do list this past Sunday. Being a freshman girls prefect, we have started a new tradition in more »
Zone Finals @ Thacher
Zone 10 Finals IEA horse show is the exact reason for my stress this week. Zone Finals is a show in which all of the qualified people from 6 schools across California (Thacher has 6 students competing) come down to Ojai while we host them. This Spring trimester there are only three riders (including myself), more »
On the docket
• New Art Project- Due next Thursday, I get to create scene using old magazines clippings and then draw it. • Western themed dance this weekend- I’m part of the the Thacher Pack and Spur club so I get to help plan it! • AP Environmental Science lab- 3 other students and I are working more »
Artistic Decompression
It’s a constant challenge to keep up at Thacher, and students often complain of lack of ‘free time.’ I was recently gifted a free Wednesday afternoon, I had little homework, no games to attend, and I didn’t have to ride. With a few free hours, what in the world was I to do with myself? Everyone more »
A Dose of Home (cooking)
Although the dining hall’s ice cream machine, salad bar, and deserts are quite a treat, a little bit of good old home cooking goes a long way. Whether it is the after school brownies made in the common room kitchen, Ms. Mully’s chocolate chip cookies at Open House, or my advisor’s burritos, homemade anything is, more »
What would you fight for?
This week in U.S. History we took a bit of a different approach to the Civil War. Instead of the typical read-discuss-and-analyze approach, we instead watched a movie (Glory) and completed a written assignment. This historically accurate action movie gave us a direct perspective into the 54th regiment and an idea of what warfare was like more »
Noting the Beauty
I can’t believe it. What? Look around you! I see shrubs. You have got to be kidding me! There is a common, unknown disease that many Thacher students often succumb to. I like to call it the I-always-forget-and-fail-to-notice-how-beautiful-this-valley-is disease. I, like many of my peers, have recently encountered this problem. Luckily, all it took was more »
All in the Family
Are you ready to handle the academics? Are you ready to become a horse person? Are you able to be an honorable student? These questions are the typical ones in an application to Thacher, but the un-asked question really is: Are you ready to be part of the biggest family ever? Thacher is, in all honesty, more »
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