Girls swimming team makes school history
Despite losing its fastest swimmer, Amalie Fackenthal, ’18, last year, the girls team made Country Day history with back-to-back titles in the Sac-Joaquin Sect...
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Junior finishes seventh, ninth in state swimming championships
Junior Rebecca Waterson and senior Joe Zales were Country Day’s only swimmers in the 2019 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Swimming and Diving Champ...
MY ANGLE: Extroverts — silence really is golden
Though I’m undoubtedly an extrovert, I recently discovered that while talking can get a person far in life, silence is underrated. This realization came to ...
BALLERINO BALLER: My life in a rap song
Junior Jackson Margolis’ biweekly blog, Ballerino Baller, is a collection of responses to the book “500 Writing Prompts,” which his mother gave him for Christm...
Class of ’18 gap year experiences vary from ‘amazing’ to ‘tough’
Former classmates Jake Longoria and Atsuo Chiu, ’18, have made their gap years count. Longoria has befriended celebrities, gotten an office job and started ...
BALLERINO BALLER: Costco puts the ‘super’ in supermarket
Junior Jackson Margolis’ biweekly blog, Ballerino Baller, is a collection of responses to the book “500 Writing Prompts,” which his mother gave him for Christm...
BALLERINO BALLER: A mission that began with a book
This is an introduction to my weekly blog: Ballerino Baller. Unlike the posts to follow, this entry is not intended for comedic or serious purposes. Sorry. If ...
UNCOVERED: A look into junior Jackson Crawford’s Basketball Mind (PODCAST)
“Uncovered” is the Octagon’s weekly podcast show hosted by junior Jackson Margolis. Listen along as Margolis interviews a new guest/guests each week about a sp...
B Street Theatre’s ‘We’re Gonna Be Okay’ enjoyed for its developed characters, edgy perspective
Junior Jackson Margolis and his brother, freshman Dylan, regularly review plays presented by the B Street Theatre, which is now part of The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts and is located at 2700 Capitol Avenue....
B Street’s all-female version of ‘The Foursome’ boasts intriguing storyline, characters
Jackson MargolisThe set of "The Ladies Foursome" is modeled after a golf course throughout the course of the play. Junior Jackson Margolis and his brother, fr...
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Jackson Margolis’ no stranger to Octagon / The junior’s been on it for two plus years / A full commitment's what he’s thinking of / You wouldn't get this from any other guy / He’s never gonna give you up / Never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you / Never gonna make you cry / Never gonna say goodbye / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. Contact at jmargolis20@scdsstudent.org