Last week as I was walking through the Schoolhouse, checking my schedule, I looked up to find Headmaster Temba Maqubela with his hand outstretched, reaching for my phone. I scrambled as I tried to explain...
At Groton, we preach that our small student body allows us to form meaningful and personal relationships. However, is Groton’s community actually tightly woven? Do students venture outside of their friend...
In the summer of 2023, amidst hectic political coverage and abominable branding choices (X??), an unsuspecting headline rose to fame: LK-99. Like Chat-GPT, the fabled discovery of LK-99–a superconductor...
From its outset, Groton was more than just a college-preparatory school. Endicott Peabody sought to prepare his students for the “active work of life” with a curriculum inspired by Muscular Christianity—a...
If you were to ask a waiter, a soldier, and a pastor how they each define “service,” you’d likely receive a discordant array of responses, despite it being a tenet central to all three occupations....
What do photos of Drake, Ziggy Bereday’s latest haircut fiasco, and characters from The Office have in common? At Groton School, they are all voices of change. Among the Groton Meme Wall, featuring a...
A typical post on the Harvard University Instagram has anywhere between 30 and 150 comments. On October 2nd, a generic, benign post featuring a “Fall day study session” had 178,932 comments. Almost...
On November 16th, Yale Law School released a notice announcing the end of its participation in the US News National Law School Rankings. Within the next week, nine T14 law schools, a term coined by the...
Walking out of the CPAC after Mr. Pyne introduced the 2030 Strategic Framework, I felt like something was missing.
At first glance, the renewed commitment to D&I, GRAIN 2.0, counseling, and GEOs...
Under the pressures of Groton’s cutthroat “grind culture,” it has become a common occurrence for Groton students to prioritize school work above all else. However, it is perhaps too far to allow...
