[SPA THINKS] How has your life changed in the past six months?

"One thing that shaped me was, I think, actually in the past couple of months. I've run my whole life, and sustaining a serious injury for the first time was kind of something that I've just had to deal with, and I don't really have a mechanism, because a lot of the times, my mechanism for dealing [with] things is running. But sort of physical therapy, and finding other ways [to deal with things] sign...

One thing that some find hard to do (or maybe just don't set aside them to do) is to talk to teachers regularly. Sophomore Nathan Mann has recently started meeting with Upper School Math Teacher Dan O'Loughlin.  “So this was like a month ago: the unit in math was getting on its way, and I was not understanding much at all. And I went in to meet with Dr. O’Loughlin, a few times actually and ...

This year, 9th grader Ashwini Sandanayake started playing hockey on a boys team.  “I played goalie for hockey, and I joined one of the boys teams, and I feel like that really shaped me as a person…I just had a lot of fun, and it was a good experience. And it'll probably be my last year of hockey, so I think I ended on a really good note … I used to play girls hockey, and it's just differ...

With many elective opportunities open to the upperclassmen, there are many English courses to chose from. Junior Mina Mandic started playwriting, and it rewrote the rules she sets for her life. “One experience that changed me is [that] I took playwriting at SPA as my English class, and it was really, really fun. I loved it so much. And I never thought that I would like playwriting, because I ...

Senior Nina Smetana: Directing a one-act “That was a totally amazing experience. I got to learn what it was like to be on the other side of the theater community, I guess. Instead of being an actor, instead of following, I became a leader. And honestly, it was one of the most exhausting things I've ever had to do… but also probably the most rewarding, because, I can't tell you, like sitting t...