Lower School – A Student Publication of the Roxbury Latin School

Patriot or traitor? Brady’s departure is the end of an era

By Miles Baumal-Bardy VI

As we sit here stuck in our homes, upset that all major sports events are canceled, it is important to reflect on one of the most important people in New England sports history: Tom Brady. Some might hold a grudge against this man, but we can never repay the satisfaction he brought us. Winning six Super Bowls, he was the only man in history to accomplish such a marvelous feat. Brady started as a lowly sixth-round pick from Michigan in the 2000 NFL draft, but he would soon blossom into someone much greater.

We will feel the effects of this pandemic for the rest of our lives

By Eric Zhu V

When the whole COVID-19 ordeal started, I didn’t take it seriously, despite being Chinese-American and hearing about the crisis from my relatives in China early on. When the entire city of Wuhan was quarantined, I realized that the coronavirus wasn’t any simple flu variant.

Sixies adapt to life in quarantine

By Omar Rahman VI

COVID-19, the epidemic of our century, has kept us stuck within ourselves and among our families while boredom and weariness creep upon us. Sixies in particular are used to the bustling commotion of sixie year and endless hours of homework and neglect for themselves as their grades plunge into the abyss. Now, with the time for anything and all things, sixies transition themselves into a more reflective state of emotion, not like that of a sage gaining wisdom but more akin to a fox plotting sly actions to escape their solitary confinement. Of course, most parents try to coax their children into an academic and athletic workload, but of course sixies con them with music, many TikTok videos, and in some cases, nothing is an escape from this contagion.

Rapid research efforts offer pandemic hope

By Raj Saha VI

Throughout the past two months, many organizations have sought to prevent the social, economic, and health impacts of coronavirus. While much emphasis has been placed on the social and economic implications, we must remember that this a health crisis at its root. The invisible clouds of fear encircling our communities and the plunging of stock markets are simply ramifications of an insidious virus amongst us. So, if we were able to create a remedy and neutralize the virus, all social and economic consequences would diminish. Thankfully, there is hope. With the collaboration of brilliant minds from biotech and pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and academia, we have developed our own intellectual army to combat COVID-19. All of these people are together in the quest to substantially reduce the mortality rates of this virus, hopefully to levels similar to influenza (flu) virus.

Please stop writing about Corona!

By Dennis Jin V

These are extraordinary circumstances and extraordinary times. Our lives have been upended and our livelihoods changed, possibly forever. Everything is online now: our classes, our work, and, most troublingly, our knowledge about the outside world.

My father left Laos in search of a better life

By Jayden Phan V

All Class V students in Mr. Pojman’s English class deliver a “speech of personal experience” to their classmates as a winter assignment. Jayden Phan’s was particularly compelling. It is reprinted here slightly abbreviated for publication.

Would you ever want to leave your country and live somewhere else? Imagine.

Advice for dealing with quarantine

By Christo Velikin VI

Some stay inside and play video games all day long. Some are outside all of the time. Some are creative with things, and come up with their own fun. Some are optimistic, some are pessimistic. So what should you do during lockdown? Well, in this article, I will give you a couple of ideas about what to do when you are bored at home, which for me is probably 80% of the time.