Here at Concord Academy, we are very proud of our performing artists. With two mainstage productions a year, a new building in progress, a lively...
Last school year, Whiteboard Girl ’26, the individual who created whiteboard art in the hallway of first floor labs, certainly made a name for herself...
On April 3, 2023, the President of Cornell University vetoed a student resolution that urged instructors to provide trigger warnings for traumatic content...
It is a bright fall day. The sun shines through the leaves and dappled light dances on the sidewalk as you step out of your house...
In an early lesson during Advanced Statistics, Geroge Larivee will have each student pull out numbered paper slips from a massive plastic container...
I arrived in Concord, Massachusetts in February 2021 after having spent my first few months of ninth grade at home on a Zoom screen...
As Concord Academy continues to change through years, students across all grades are looking to ground themselves in the community around them.
Not even the most diligent senior is ever truly prepared for Concord Academy’s infamous Drop/Add cycles. The lofty stakes of a perfect schedule...
Concord Academy’s student council plays an essential role in the school’s character, from the organization of culture-defining events to student representation...
Etched deeply into the minds of most students at Concord Academy is the one principle we value most: common trust. But how far does this common trust stretch?
The Quad is a wonderful space that is central to the CA community. Though there are many activities to partake in on the Quad, here are the top five things to do.
As of August 3, the date of writing this article, it has been nearly 18 months since Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine...
At the start of this new school year, new students and faculty are welcomed to the Concord Academy community. This is always a busy time...
Extended campus, the district surrounding Concord Academy, is full of interesting places to visit and food to try. There are numerous coffee shops...
You have likely already heard of some general advice regarding your new life here at Concord Academy, but this advice is specifically for those who are trans...
The ongoing West Campus construction will cause all sorts of headaches during the 2023-24 school year, and the biggest hassle of all will be the parking situation...
Concord Academy’s proximity to the town center of Concord is one of the many things that makes the CA experience unique. While each member of the community...
Navigating freshman year can be exciting, but it is also daunting at first glance. It may be overwhelming to think about the next four years and how you will...
A part of the thirty-two mile long Sudbury River lies just north of Concord Academy’s campus. The river is known for being contaminated with mercury...
By the time school was nearing the end last year, Biology might have been my favorite class. I liked the material, my classmates, and my teacher...
One of the lesser known benefits of attending Concord Academy is the pleasure of being able to traverse the serene, historic, and beautiful walking paths of Concord.
The start of a new school year always comes with an influx of feelings ranging from eagerness and excitement to anticipation and nervousness.
As a new runner, it can seem incredibly hard to join the world of running. Though the sport is loved by so many, it is also misunderstood by so many more.
The Centipede sent out an optional survey to the class of 2023 and asked those willing to share their college plans. The following is a list of where 49 seniors are matriculating and a pie chart representing the stud...
The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff is a young adult science fiction novel that follows the main characters, Kady Grant and Ezra Mason. At the start of the story, the two are living on the planet Kar...
当你想起边界， 你会想到什么？
郭爽在她的短篇小说集《月球》中阐述了她对这个概念的认识。对于郭爽，边界不仅仅是一种一个地方与另外一个地方的交界点，它还可以是一个人与另外一个人的隔阂。它可以是代沟，也可以是梦境与真是的交叉。甚至，边界可以是社会给予我们行为上的框架，告诉我们什么事情是正常的的，什么事情是不正常的。
While many Concord Academy students are involved in the arts, it is rare for disparate art disciplines to collaborate on an interdisciplinary project. When the opportunity does arise, it is a great learning experience of whic...
Larry, Larry,
Ahhh!!! The school year is coming to an end and I’m kind of freaking out. I just recovered from the mental exhaustion after formal, and now assessments?! I ha...
The following is a list of each senior’s favorite quote from their chapel, collected with an optional survey sent to the class of 2023 from the Centipede.
The 59th Editorial Board of the Centipede included five senior editors and two senior writers. Maia Monahan ’23 and Cozette Wang ’23 were the Co-Editor-in-Chiefs. Margo Buchanan ’23 was the Opinions Editor, Isabella ...
On April 28 and 29, 2023, Concord Academy staged two plays for Directors’ Workshop. This annual tradition is the most advanced performing arts course at CA and gives two dedicated seniors the opportunity to direct a play of t...
As the school year draws to a close, one of the most disheartening things amidst finals and projects is to bid farewell to teachers or colleagues. Every teacher is an integral part of the Concord Academy community, and the de...
This year, many senior students at Concord Academy are participating in senior projects. Senior projects are a second semester course of study that either contain an interdisciplinary or experimental aspect. The students desi...
As the school year wraps up, one of the final Performing Arts productions is Directors’ Workshop: an annual opportunity for two Concord Academy seniors to direct a play of their choice. This year, one of the directors was Lia...
On May 6, 2023, Concord Academy hosted Formal, an annual, all-school tradition. The event was quite enjoyable, and gave students time to hangout with others outside the academic setting. The time, effort, and money poured int...
The end of the school year season: a time shaped by strenuous finals, the impending excitement of summer vacation, and sentimental farewells. Among those departing this year is beloved and admired history teacher Emma Storbec...
On Saturday, April 29, seven Concord Academy students and two faculty chaperones volunteered at Gaining Ground, an organic, non-profit farm in Concord, Massachusetts dedicated to donating fresh produce to those in need. The f...
As the 2022-23 school year draws to a close, Concord Academy will bid farewell to longtime Performing Arts faculty member Megan Schy Gleeson. Since her arrival in 2004, Schy Gleeson has been an integral part of the CA communi...
April 24 marked a pivotal day for American journalism. That morning, Fox News announced that they had decided to part ways with prime time talk show host Tucker Carlson, a decision that struck many as sudden and somewhat unex...
During the height of the pandemic, the entirety of the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community was confronted with the rise of extreme physical and verbal abuse. The increase of horrific acts of violence, discriminat...
In an era of Buzzfeed personality tests and "Would You Rather?" quizzes, it seems that everything we do or choose inevitably reveals an aspect of our personalities. Prefer fro-yo to ice cream? Then you must enjoy sul...
For the majority of my life, I have lived with allergies to eggs and tree nuts. My allergies began when I was around three years old, after grabbing a handful of eggs and promptly breaking out in hives. Then at age five, I wa...
On April 19, 2023, users of the popular social media and messaging platform, Snapchat, opened the app to find a new friend on their Chat feed. Officially called “My AI,” Snapchat’s experimental feature allows users to message...
As warmer weather approaches in the Northeast, so too does the return of the dreaded spotted lanternflies. The planthopper insects are an invasive species native to East Asia that pose a serious threat to the health of Americ...
In the next two years, Concord Academy will carry out its vision for West Campus, constituting the most ambitious capital project ever pursued by the school. The plan mainly seeks to meet the needs of the performing arts curr...
So far, Concord Academy has competed in the Chandler Bowl for fall sports and the Battle for winter sports, but what does CA have in store for spring sports? The answer is Bancroft Day, the competitive spring sports event tha...
As of early May, the spring sports season at Concord Academy is well underway. Teams have had varying levels of success; the boys tennis team is 8-1 while the girls team is 8-0, and both are in position to finish at the top o...
In recent weeks, construction has begun on Concord Academy’s ambitious West Campus project, which includes the addition of the new performing arts building dubbed the Centennial Arts Center, or CAC. The CAC and its constructi...
The 2014 movie, Whiplash, is a piece of cinema that almost everyone can agree is worth watching. It boasts a very talented cast: most notably, the main character, Miles Teller, as well as Andrew Neiman and J.K Simmon...
Whether one is a diehard theater kid, a mild musical enjoyer, or a tolerator at most, Alexander Hamilton is now a household name. This is arguably due to Hamilton, the 2015 hip-hop rap musical. While most may only se...
In early April 2016, over 11 million documents were leaked from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm. Known as the Panama Papers, these documents implicated some of the world's most powerful and influential figures—from s...
Until recently, I have never been a big fan of science fiction stories. Oftentimes, they follow the same basic storyline without much variation. Our young protagonist and their battle-hardened mentor set off across the cosmos...
On the afternoon of Friday, February 24, the Concord Academy community gathered in the Chapel for an assembly on the Re-Invasion of Ukraine, presented by Nathan Rothschild ’23 and Andrii Vedmid ’26. The two gave the history o...
During a period of slavery, black barbers were simply another form of profit for enslavers enslavers.It was common for enslaved or previously enslaved people to serve a It was common for enslaved or previously enslaved ...
Spring Session returned to Concord Academy this year, and one of the offerings was the opportunity to go on a foreign or domestic trip. One of the international trips offered was an architecture-focused visit to Barcelona and...
On Friday, March 31, the Concord Academy senior class took part in the highly anticipated Senior Transition Seminar. Following the students’ last academic commitment of the day, they made their way to the P.A.C. to kick off a...
Every year, just after March break, the Junior Class goes to rural Massachusetts for a day and...
Many CA students probably remember their Revisit Day: a day full of surprises and exploration,...
Spring Sessions at Concord Academy marked a week of fun and exploration for all. While many students attended courses ranging from board game design to pizza making, others went on CA-sponsored trips to various locations arou...
On April 14, 2023, Concord Academy hosted the elections for Student Head of School and the Stu...
This year during Spring Session, Concord Academy students had the opportunity to participate i...
On Wednesday, April 5, the Concord Academy community had the opportunity to hear from Larry Go...
Amid a rise of national scrutiny of the addictive and harmful qualities of social media, Instagram reels deserves a go under the microscope. Reels consists of short videos designed to trap people in an endless scroll to an un...
April 8, 2023 marked Concord Academy’s 19th annual Model UN conference, CAMUN, which hosted ov...
For a couple of years now, the United States government has been taking steps to limit the use...
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Every year I lose perhaps one hundred hours of high-functioning time due to a certain mental p...
For the first Community Weekend of 2023, the Sustainability Committee alongside the Environmental Coheads took to the weekend’s activities with a green lens, as it coincided with Earth Day. All of the activities offered for s...
Around this time of year, every rainstorm is followed by the claim that “April showers bring M...
On Saturday, April 22, Concord Academy’s Gender Representation in Tech organization, more comm...
It is allergy season again here in Concord, Massachusetts! Despite a variety of common allerge...
The Oscars has announced this year’s nominations. While many prominent film creators are eagerly awaiting the results, which will be broadcasted live on March 12, there are many masterpieces that have been overlooked. My awar...
This academic year, Jared Rhee ’22 is a freshman for the first time in four years. Having graduated from Concord Academy in May of 2022, Rhee is currently enrolled in his second semester at Yale University in New Haven, Conne...
The body as neither altar nor afterthought; the spirit as neither savior nor specimen. These are the relations that define much of Leila Chatti’s debut poetry collection, Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), in which ...
The Banshees of Inshirin is simple on the surface. Set on a remote Irish island, it is the story of a dull-but-kind man, Pádraic (Colin Farrell), whose best friend, Colm (Brendan Gleeson) su...
One of Concord Academy’s most beloved annual traditions is Senior Coffeehouse. The event, full of music, skits, dances, and inside jokes, is set to commence on Friday, March 3. The class of 2023 has been planning skits, chore...
Concord Academy Game Design club is a haven for those interested in the intersection of art, music, design, and coding. The group was founded in 2021 by Thomas Crowley ’24. That spring, he welcomed Jessie Ma ’24 as co-head an...
Concord Academy prioritizes balancing students’ interests in order to enrich the high school experience. As such, the junior class hosted Semi Formal on February 11 from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. A dance at CA is not just an ex...
As Valentine’s Day comes to an end, here are a few ways to continue spreading the holiday love throughout this month and year. Everyone has different love languages, so that should be kept in mind when looking at how differen...
On October 26, 2005, in Shanghai, China, the world was graced with the presence of the one and only Alicia Zhang. Alicia is in her final year at Concord Academy as a boarder from Pleasanton, California. An extrovert, sh...
Spring Session at Concord Academy will kick off on March 6 after a four-year hiatus due to COV...
Black History Month is an annual celebration recognizing and celebrating the historical impact...
Since 1977, a woman named Maureen Weston from England has held the Guinness World Record for managing to stay awake for 449 hours (18 days and 17 hours). Randy Gardner holds the scientifically documented record for the longes...
On February 24 and 25, the Concord Academy community was treated to an entertaining evening courtesy of the 2023 Winter Mainstage, Pippin. A unique and magical story, Pippin proved a massive spectacle of a m...
Mock Trial is a program created by the Massachusetts Bar Association, in which high school students participate in a courtroom simulation competition. There, they assume the roles of witnesses or lawyers to argue a case that ...
There is no denying that February is an odd little month. At just 28 days, it is by far the shortest out of the 12 months, and happens to be the one that adopts the leap day in order to keep our calendar in-time with the orbi...
On the evening of Friday, February 10, a novelty occurred at Concord Academy—or so it would have appeared to most current students. The return of CA’s winter International Potluck, complete with live DJ karaoke, drew hundreds...
On November 2, 2022, President Joe Biden's lawyers found a small number of classified documents in his office, in the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. They reported the discovery to the National Archives...
From Thursday, January 19 to Sunday, January 22, 12 Concord Academy students traveled to New Haven, Connecticut, for a weekend of debate, diplomacy, and simulated politics. They participated in the 49th Yale Model United Nati...
Recently, in the past year or so, a trend has formed which involves the act of comparing people to NPCs. “NPC,” or “non-player character,” is a common term used in video g...
Concord Academy is a place that prides itself on its academically rigorous environment, and though this philosophy of hard work deeply permeates student life, time to celebrate is appreciated every once in a while. Like many ...
Giovanni Reyna is an American professional soccer player currently representing the Bundesliga...
“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” –George Orwell, “Why I Write”
Why do we sing when we are terrible at singing?...
The college culture at Concord Academy is quite the hot topic. What some call amazing and supportive, others call excessive and limiting.
In some ways, our school doe...
Annually, on the third Monday of January, countless schools, businesses, banks, and gov...
I think it comes as news to no one that holidays are massive commercial opportunities for businesses. Christmas, perhaps, is the most infamous example. Every big company jumps to decorate their store in the theme of the upcom...
Two years ago, The Daily Targum of Rutgers University published an article titled “Don't be fooled: Valentine’s Day is just another capitalistic money-making scheme.” Here, Meredith MacLean’s prose is fiery and force...
We are facing a quiet crisis of identity. The crisis penetrates through the shell of contemporary society, breaking, cracking, and scratching at our insides. It most visibly manifests itself when you answer the question “Who ...
There is no denying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has positively impacted the world, from allowing for earlier detection of diseases to helping scientists improve climate decision-making and better understand the effects ...
It has been a largely snowless winter in the Boston area, with no snow days at all as of early February. There have, however, been a few close calls, which might bring up the question of how snow days are actually determined ...