I was sure I wouldn’t win. With an ear half turned to the assembly speakers, I heard a long list of names followed by applause. I assumed these students were candidates for The History Prize, and the...

As I walked into the Lower School building, I had an extra strut to my step. It wasn’t because I got a good grade or because the sun was out; it was because of my shiny red Doc Martens. Clad in my Abercrombie...

In India, hundreds of people wearily wait in line in hopes of obtaining a COVID vaccine. At a nearby hospital, hallways overflow with patients on respirators. In the U.S., a sign outside a pharmacy...

We are very excited about the Grove Street project that we have been working on for over three years. This project will ultimately provide the school community with two new state-of-the- art synthetic...

I am a retired mathematics educator and one of the many Watertown residents who signed a petition to reject the installation of artificial turf on the Grove Street site that the school purchased. I also...

Our stint on this planet has been brief. In Earth’s 4.5 billion years of life, humanity has taken up about 5 million. To put that in perspective, we have lived on this planet for only 1/900th of its...

My house is a nonstop stream of noise: my little sister doing bizarre dances to Spanish music; my parents loudly dissecting Russian Facebook memes; and a basement that is effectively a WeWork. And getting...

With all respect to The Vanguard’s editorial team, I hate writing this column. And not because of any fruitless brainstorming attempts or rapid turnaround times, but for a deeper reason: one due in no...

Over the summer, I was fortunate enough to get a job at a retail store, which included long hours on my feet almost every day. To make the time pass more quickly, I started spending each break listening...

Happy October! My favorite pre-Halloween activity involves watching scary shows and crying myself to sleep afterward, so I’ll be sharing some of my favorites to help you set the mood for Spooky Season....

Names have been changed to protect the innocent. Bob, Bill, Brad, and Daniel. The four of us were inseparable. I was only at Shore Country Day School in Beverly from third to fifth grade, but, somehow,...

Senior year and turning eighteen don’t necessarily mark the absorption into adulthood for everyone. Certainly not immediately, at least. But the realization of these quickly approaching milestones has...