When I was little, there was this grate that led into this dark dusty room and my sister and I actually dreamed that there were unicorns in there. 

When I came to observe their practice Thursday afternoon, I expected to be greeted with a bunch of kids silently programming their robots. Instead, I found them all laughing and joking with each other as they worked. 

“Hockey is about speed and being able to get up quickly, and changing direction quickly,” while “figure skating is more about tricks and maintaining poise and grace,” Amia says.

Someday you might be in my situation: a teenage girl engaged to a foreign prince, questioning whether the practicality of an Evite is worth losing the elegance of formal letters. 

"When I first started and people weren’t sure who was doing the drawings. People would walk up and ask if it was me, and I would always deny until Mr. Hyde gave it away.”

“It’s really an opportunity to apply what you learn in the classroom in a team setting,” Lily said.

“It helps me remember some of the harder terms [from the unit] like how Dr. Douglas associated Devshirme with dabbing sherbet,” sophomore Phoebe Ellis said. 

Although Halloween season has, unfortunately, passed, I watched a few spooky movies and it’s never too late for a good scare!

This cover definitely gave off the impression that it was a horror book. The cover was black, and from all sides, trees crept in...

 We would go to the cow station where you could milk the cow, although I didn’t particularly like this part (and I’m pretty sure the cows didn’t either). 

“Art is just a way to relax and be in the moment,” Landon says. “It’s a way to show character, who you are, how you see the world on a deeper level.”

“This group is really coming together and has fully embraced the theme of band of brothers,” he says. 

As much as he misses Lovett, he’s enjoying his life in Virginia. He is part of a paper-sharing group which is like a book club for historians.

I was reading an article in People magazine recently with the headline “Dutch Family Found Living in Hidden Basement After Almost a Decade of Preparing for World to End.”

“It’s really interesting,” said senior Sarah Packman, “because it’s not one story but a collection of short stories. Each scene is like its own story.”

“Even if I don’t have a ninth-grade advisory, I still volunteer to go because I really love seeing the freshmen get exposed to their surroundings.” 

Ivey enjoyed the small groups where they talked about Shark Tank and what God is trying to promote to us through the Bible’s stories.

As for my wedding dress, let’s just say it won’t be the fashion-forward mermaid dress typical of the 2010s. 

“By the end we were all friends, always making jokes, having a good time and always winning together,” Pross said.

Being a royal, I know right away that many of the attendants of my wedding will be heads of state. 

They squawked a couple of times, but other than that, they either didn’t notice or didn’t care that I was there. 

Let’s say I haven’t finished that American Studies reading on Jonathan Edwards. Well, then I might have my Norton Anthology of American Literature in my lap with my pen holding the page.

"I liked seeing other presidents up on stage and I liked making other people laugh and I want to hopefully continue that.”

"Where we really go above and beyond is in making sure that kids have enough water, shade and cooling devices where we can.”

“I love the creativity and just how climbing exercises literally every aspect of your body. Instead of focusing on just one thing, climbing is both physical and mental.”

It turns out that many Lovett teens don’t need to be forced [to read]. Sixty out of 146 people (41.1%) read a book that was not required.

At one point, I decided I wanted to be a florist married to a preacher in Copenhagen, Denmark with NO CHILDREN.

"I don’t see myself as a mechanical engineer but I could see myself as a front office person working in accounting or consulting,” Mary Katherine Schmersal says.

I’m engaged to Prince Felix, eighth in line to the Danish throne. But finding my Mr. Right was no easy task. I spent hours one night in the eighth grade scrolling through Wikipedia, struggling to find a prince my age.

“Exaggeration is literally contagious. One person complains about their life or how much school work they have or how tired they are and then people start using exaggeration statements almost to compete over how bad/good things are."

“We do make students go to chapel, and some people might resent that,” Rev Allen says, “but Lovett basically says that we want to open up your minds and your hearts to the idea that there is also spiritual growth in addition to intellectual and physical growth.”

Enjoy cheering on the Lions. Enjoy getting decked out for the big dances but also cherish the small moments in an alcove when you get to catch up with a friend.

During horse show weekends, I love walking into the barn in the morning, smelling the fresh alfalfa, and hearing the horses nickering for their breakfast.

“Coach always says Cross Country is won in the summer,” says Junior Patrick Pitts.

“I was worried about where to sit at lunch,” one ninth grader said, “Oh yeah, I was also worried about the alcoves.”

When I think about exchange students coming to study in America, I wonder if they come here believing all Americans are crazy and overstuffed with fast food.

“Actually I want to do something with space like be a NASA engineer or work in space aeronautics. I am obsessed with the idea of space,” she says.

“Being on stage,” said junior Will Novak, “just feels amazing because even when nobody’s there, you feel like the whole world is watching, so you have to perform.”

From students to parents to coaches, Lovett Lion reporters have been talking with people all across campus to find out how their summers were, and what it's like to be back.

 
I’m always finding new things to read about and I really believe in the things we do in our everyday life and that we should base our decisions on data.

Did I ask everyone I know to come to some awesome “I Magically Remembered How to Have a Normal Conversation” party? I wish. 

So this weekend is the the weekend before exams, so instead of giving you guys a bunch of stuff to do, I’m going to give you guys ideas for study breaks. 

t’s almost the end of ninth grade for me, and I am pretty happy about it, but also kind of sad. 

I think my vision for Lovett is for us to be the best versions of ourselves that we can be. I think it’s looking at Mrs. Lovett’s idea of what progressive education was, which was so relevant 100 years ago, and still is today,

Most girls are more likely to put in maximum effort, but still get the same grades they might have earned had they worked less.

“I think it’s important for students to have a creative outlet. It allows the student to relax a little bit; it’s more calming,” says Ms. Walter.

"It’s easy to pretend this type of bias doesn’t exist, but it does, and it’s weird to see how much it affects things.”

The girls play a passing game like professionals, not a bunt-the-ball-and-chase-it seen on most high school fields. 

"I think for teaching, math was the discipline that I was naturally drawn to because just how nice and neat and tidy it is.”

It’s “really important to know everyone’s strengths,” one runner put it, and “it’s in those group events that you really feel like a team instead of just one [athlete].”

“Many shows have a single female ‘star vehicle’ but not necessarily a multitude of other parts for women,” she says. “That was the primary thing I searched for.”

“I just wish there was someone new I could talk to about my problems,” one of my best friends confessed to me, and I think that many of us can relate.

Unfortunately, it seems like ever since PSAT scores were posted, every college admissions office in the country wants to ruin the joys of snail mail for me.

Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced shoe-tez-caht) Martinez has, at age 18, already accomplished more than most people might with their entire lives.

“It is something Bower always would joke about, me not making the team…then becoming Captain of the Varsity team [3] years later.”

“I think if you talk to anybody who works in this field, specifically this pipeline from high school to college, if they are speaking candidly they most people will likely say they were not surprised,” Ms. Sant told me.

“Whether it is mask and movement work, makeup, or character work, we are going to go through everything,” Mr. Freer says.

“It’s our future!” “Save our Future, Save our Planet!” “The Climate Strike! March 15th!” These were a selection of slogans sketched in bright paint pens on poster boards a few Fridays ago.

A dying ant, a mute superhero, and a korean rabbi don’t have much in common at first glance, except that they were each featured in films at Lovetts annual student film festival last Friday.

Every time I turned out the lights I thought something was out to get me. 

A favorite of mine was the Upper School girls and boys dancing to the song “Greased Lightnin’” performed by Avery Gipson and Caroline McPherson. 

As soon as we got to the door, Mr. Newman asked about “principles of physics” that could explain our mystery.

Lovett Tennis has been on the move for the past year as they’ve racked up games, titles, and trophies.

It’s been a while, but it was interesting to see what they remembered, and what stuck out to them.

When most people cry over their homework, it’s out of stress, anxiety, or pure hatred, but last Saturday night, sitting in bed at 12:00 am in a blanket and comfy pants, my reason was a little different.

It was 7:45 in the morning, and my friend came screaming into the alcove, bursting with excitement, and ready to talk to us about the final episode of the Bachelor that aired the night before. 

“It’s been a thing for so long, and everybody goes.” 

“This house is going to burn down when you go through your breakups,” my mother laughingly told me when I was in ninth grade.

“We thought, there is no way The Rock is on I-75, just sitting there,” Will Seiler, Captain of Lovett’s Varsity Baseball team, told me.

“Yeah, we sort of never stop swimming,” said Cameron, “but it’s the only way to get better."

Going to bed at 8:00 PM on a school night makes us happy. NUDs make us happy. So a very fair question is why does everyone seem unhappy?

“Just being so familiar with the Constitution will provide me with an…appreciation of the privilege of our basic rights,” Sam King says. “Hopefully, that will be the reason, and not because I’m in any sort of trouble.”

Yes, contemporary art is kind of weird, but it will be a really cool thing to go and do. It will also make you sound really cultured which is never a bad thing. 

“I started drinking coffee in freshman year, I believe. I’ve started drinking more coffee over time; I drink one cup everyday.  My parents drink coffee, so they don’t mind that I do.”

“There’s a lot of support students receive right now and it changes in college and I plan to work in ways to support in that bridge,” he says.

This year, twenty students from Lovett’s Tech theater class crewed the big spring production, controlling everything from the sound board to set movements. 

“After I do one show, I tend to want to start working on a show that’s completely the opposite, and that was Footloose,” Pitchford says. Not only was the 80’s classic grittier and darker then Peter Pan, but “Footloose is a musical with a lot of meaning,” she explains.

It’s finally spring break! I know, these past two weeks have felt like two months, but hey, it’s finally here! 

It’s finally spring break! I know, these past two weeks have felt like two months, but hey, it’s finally here! 

"It was [because of] Lovett that I realized I can kind of do anything. I can study poetry, be a preacher if I want; the most important thing is just that I learned to love learning.”

Everyone’s been in this situation: you’re sitting in your room, texting your friend, and then it hits you, and you sink down into your chair. You forgot to write the essay about The Catcher in the Rye your teacher told you about a week ago, and it’s due tomorrow, first period.

This January, the Marine Bio Lab became the home to one of Lovett’s newest and biggest families, 40 baby clownfish. The adoptive parents of these little fish are seniors Charlie Hicks and Reagan Marshall, both marine biology interns and students in Dr. Reynold’s class.

Different from our first group of ignorers, group two likes to avoid the problem that’s making them mad and try to block it out of their mind.