ANNABELLE CHU ’28 Orbital is not a book you will enjoy if you speed-read it the night before your English class. It is not a book that contains adventures, aliens, or astronaut romance. It is not a...

I  still  remember  my  first ever  Almanac email from Dean D’Ambrosio on August 10, 2023. I remember thinking it was funny that my new school had named its student handbook after an old farmer’s...

The Editors-in-Chief selected this article from The Record Vol. CV describing the proctor training in 1997. As new students arrived at Hotchkiss this year, they were eagerly greeted by a battalion of...

September 2024 in Hong Kong was 31 degrees Celsius. On my flight to New York, I created Pinterest boards with Brandy Melville tops and low-rise jeans and imagined how they’d look with Hotchkiss as the...

Watching the sun set over the lake, feeling the gentle breeze on my skin as I return to Edelman, strolling around campus  surrounded  by  friends, playing tennis with questionable skill but immense...

In the spirit of journalistic transparency, we feel obligated to share the truth: coming up with this editorial was hard. As current Upper Mids, it felt wrong to write a series of finger-wagging  platitudes ...

I feel very different from the person I was when I stepped onto campus at the start of my Prep year. Though at my core much is the same—my drive, my love of laughter, my commitment to people and the...

On Thursday, May 15, students gathered at Frank House to celebrate the Spring Head of School holiday, called in honor of six retiring faculty & staff: Ms. Teal Atkinson, science lab technician; Ms....

The Opinion Editors selected this letter to the editor from The Record Vol. LXXXIII to encourage school spirit as finals approach! To the Editor: Last year, as some people may remember, I wrote a letter...

Every generation inherits  a culture—a  set  of deeply   ingrained beliefs.    These beliefs are not merely incidental   opinions; they  are  the  norms that completely shape our   understanding...