Over the course of the year, Groton participates in service programs in Peru, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and India. In Tanzania, Groton students met and worked with Tanzanian students from the Orkeeswa Secondary School. Anna and Flora are two girls who attend Orkeeswa and who have come to spend spring term with us on the Circle. [...]
This year, I auditioned for the spring production of Rumors, a farcical play by Neil Simon. I got the part of Claire Ganz, one of the women in the show, and I’m very excited to be working with such an incredible cast and director. I had read the play before, so I had a basic [...]
The past few weeks, the beginning of spring term, were much too cold for my North Carolinian blood, but lately the weather has begun to pick up. Which means only one thing, spring is here. With spring comes many things: evening softball, crew, and, best of all, relaxing on the Circle with your friends all [...]
At least once a term my advisor, Julia Alling, gets her group of advisees together for one big advisee feed. Last Wednesday, we took the quick walk down Farmer’s Row to Ms. Alling’s house. A good three or four inches of snow had already fallen by that time and we were all very happy to enter [...]
Over this Thanksgiving break, my family and I went to Toronto for a family vacation. We spent a couple of days exploring the city, taking in its classic icons, such as the CN tower and Niagara Falls. We spent Thanksgiving night at my dad’s friend’s place; he had moved from California to Toronto a couple years ago. [...]
This winter the lacrosse captains put together an indoor team to play Sunday afternoons in Acton, a town about 20 minutes away. We usually scrap nine or ten kids together, pile into a toaster bus, and are driven by Mr. Funnell to the game. This Sunday, arriving with about nine students, we were a bit [...]
No matter how busy my schedule is, something I look forward to every week is the time I spend tutoring a younger student for a few hours. On the Circle we have a great peer-tutoring program, allowing students to receive help from each other in ways a hired professional couldn’t. This has been a very [...]
We covered a lot of ground this winter, building tools and introducing material to set the stage for the analysis of ever more complex systems. We began in December by writing elementary computer programs and using them to model arrangements of polygons. We then returned from vacation in January to use high-resolution images and a [...]
