The first week of October, juniors and seniors went to Ashland, Oregon, to see the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of several plays. I’ve been going t...
With the 2018 midterm elections just around the corner and the fate of the U.S. at stake (for at least the next two years), the midterms can get very chaotic a...
While efforts from the faculty to prepare Country Day for a lockdown are worthwhile, the same students whom faculty is trying to protect are left in the dark a...
In the midst of a sea of Google Drive folders and subfolders and sub-sub folders, an Octagon staffer has (understandably) lost the document containing the draf...
In eighth grade, I had to wear this funky little device that was supposed to help heal my injured shoulders. Long story short, my injury stemmed from the begin...
I recently read a New York Times article about a strategy many students are taking in choosing a college: There are students who purposefully attend schools wh...
Quaker Camp at Ben Lomond Quaker Center this summer was both the best and worst week of my life.
Typically, based on my three summers’ experience working at...
I love the summer. It’s time off school when I can focus on swimming, hang out with friends and not care about anything related to my future.
At least, that...
Some people call me a “Chinaboo”; I prefer the term “sinophile.” I’ve been to China twice: from mid-July to mid-August in 2017 and then July of 2018.
This y...
