Usually held at a nearby eatery or right here on campus, alumni gatherings can be fraught with apprehensive anticipation coupled with genuine shared joy and connection. I marvel at the obvious changes in identity shaped by occupation and family. This person is a mother or father now, or that person is an engineer or librarian….
Ho Ho How Do You Celebrate Christmas
By: Karlos Tse ’27 If you were an alien and came to Earth on Christmas, would you think it to be bizarre? We celebrate by putting a tree indoors, oversized socks above a fire hazard and dressing our buildings with tiny neon light bulbs. Sounding bizarre? This year, Christmas will be held on 12/25/25, regardless…
Changing of the Seasons
By Ann Wang ’26
Anna Karenina and the Loneliness of Desire
By Ann Wang ‘26 I finally finished all 962 pages of Anna Karenina last month, and I’m still reeling from it. It’s a book that’s so despairing yet beautiful at the same time—or perhaps beautiful precisely because of the despair it evokes. There is so much I want to touch on in this book review,…
AWS Shutdown
By Joah Boland-Landa ’27 It’s well known that wolves howl to stay connected, but last week our Wolfnet went silent, leaving our pack disconnected and discombobulated. Last Monday, AWS (Amazon Web Services), a large-scale IT and cloud-computing company known for maintaining cloud storage for various online corporations experienced an “operational issue” at 12:11am that affected…
iPhone 17
By Charles Wang ’27 The new “upgraded” iPhone 17 lineup was released just over a month ago, and the community has been greatly polarized in whether or not it can actually be considered an improvement. Certainly, there has been much discourse with regards to the changes in past generations, with some arguing that they “only…
From Bottle to Brain: The Journey of Microplastics Into Your Body
By Annie Wagner ‘27 From bottles to packaging to kitchen utensils, plastic is everywhere. We interact with it every day, benefiting from its relative inexpensiveness, lightweight nature, and wide range of uses. However, plastic is more pervasive than we think, and not in a good way: it is no longer just found in everyday objects;…
Drones: Changing the course of military history
By Luke Wagner ‘27 At the start of June, Ukraine completely surprised Russia with an attack that nobody saw coming. The attack began just before Ukraine and Russia were to have peace talks in Istanbul. The temperature on the talks was already heating up with pressure from the United States. The attack was called Operation…
Top 4 Book Recommendations
By Saba Alipour ‘29 Often, one of the biggest reasons stopping people from reading is not knowing what to read. Below is a list of four must-reads, varying in genre and type. These recommendations come from four different big readers, most of whom are members of the Library Club. Please note that the order of…
Service Fair
Katherine Zhang ’30
Vanishing Vitamins: Our Food Is Changing
By Damon Burton ’26 Whenever someone wants to lose weight or improve their health, the first thing that they’re told is to focus on eating healthy, nutrient-dense whole foods, and that’s generally great advice. Processed foods tend to be packed with sugars and fats while lacking in important micronutrients, leading to a surplus of calories…
The Radiator
By Alexander Marcus ’30 Autumn has arrived, and with it brings school, pumpkins, and the cold. Though the chill creeps in, you feel content, all because of the household heating appliance that’s modern journey began in 1834. Cue the radiator… The term ‘Radiator’ was first used by an American astronomer and physicist named Denison Olmstead….
Late Night Thoughts With Lu: What Changes and What Doesn’t Change
By Mr. Alfred Lu I was fighting with Ms. McGee. We were debating the pratfalls of AI writing. She considered it soulless while I countered the quality of writing was subjective. We didn’t get anywhere, but the back and forth was enjoyable, and not something I get to experience day to day. Ms. McGee is…
How Halloween Came to Be
By Karlos Tse ‘27 We all celebrate October 31st with sweet treats and costumes. We go trick or treating for candy, discover creatively carved pumpkins and walk around with the fear of ghosts. What a weird holiday! How did the spookiest day of the year come to be? Simply put, Halloween originated from the Celtic…
The Chemistry of Tears
By Ann Wang (‘26) In the final week of school, everything feels heightened: stress from exams, the surreal goodbyes to graduating friends, and the quiet domineering pressure of Grade 12 creeping closer. I’ve cried more times than I want to admit, in hallways, bathrooms, and even in silent classrooms. Sometimes it was from stress, other…
Vancouver Holocaust Symposium
By Annie Wagner (‘27) On May 20th, Social Studies 10 attended the Vancouver Holocaust Symposium at St. George’s. We had the privilege of listening to the stories of two Holocaust survivors, René Goldman and Michel Silver, and learned from a historian, Dr. Sebastian Huebel. We started with a presentation from the historian, Dr. Sebastian Huebel…
Shannon McCollum Interview
By Ethan Kapour ’27 Shannon McCollum is an Atlanta-based photographer and creative who’s been deeply embedded in the city’s hip-hop and cultural scene since the 1990s, photographing many famous rappers (Ludacris, T.I, OutKast, & Future). Raised by a newspaper photojournalist, he developed an early love for documentary photography and went on to capture moments around…




