As colleges and universities across the nation modified their academic and testing requirements, many boarding schools, including Deerfield Academy, followed suit. The Deerfield Admissions Committee has made amends to their…
Over the past 42 years, Assistant Library Director Patricia Kelly has been a steady presence in Deerfield’s library. She has overseen the library’s transformation through technological changes, guided students through…
Every Tuesday night, I would walk into Johnson 1 with a smile on my face, knowing that Ms. Winsor would be there with her dog Remi. She would greet me…
I first met Juliana Camacho midway through last year when she took over the task of teaching my Spanish 3 class. Having thoroughly enjoyed the first half of the year,…
No one from Dewey expected to spend their Tuesday evenings watching The Bachelor in the Dewey common room. However, Ms. Ford, our dorm associate, had different plans. She somehow had…
When we were younger, we all dreamed about having fairy godmothers and guardian angels: someone to guide us closer to our dreams. But I dreamed about having an older sister…
Mr. Grimm and I were both “new juniors,” graduating from Deerfield in the same year. Mr. Grimm: what can’t he do? He is a singer, actor, dancer, vegan baker, photographer,…
My first sit-down meal as a new sophomore was incredibly frightening. Unsure of how to conduct myself and what to say, I kept uncharacteristically quiet. Mr. Thiel ’91, however, did…
Dr. Mark Ott’s English class is one that many students remember fondly: the large typewriter that sits in the middle of the table, a stack of The New Yorker cartoons…
For the first half of my junior year, I dreaded U.S. history. I thought I had already learned everything, and taking the course seemed more tedious than educational. But, after…