2025-26: “Hollywood” Homecoming Review
As the new semester gradually settled into its rhythm, LFA’s highly anticipated annual Homecoming dance arrived on September 20th. This year, the Student Council transformed Homecoming Night into a spectacular…
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Project Pumpkin: A Celebration of Community
For over a decade, Project Pumpkin has been an anticipated celebration of Halloween at Lake Forest Academy. Students, parents, and teachers alike unite to host a group of 5th graders…
Costume Craze: What’s Trending This Halloween?
The leaves are changing colors, the air is crisp and Halloween is right around the corner. For many, October 31 isn’t just about candy and haunted houses — it’s about…
Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Colson Whitehead Comes to LFA
On October 23, American novelist, essayist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction Colson Whitehead visited Lake Forest Academy. Whitehead was brought to LFA for the Bird Artist Series, managed…
The Best Study Spots on Campus: A Curated Selection
As autumn settles over Lake Forest Academy, students scurry between classes, backpacks heavy with homework. The leaves crunch underfoot as students search for the perfect place to study—and there are…
Victoria’s Secret Steps Forward in 2025 Fashion Show
On October 15, 2025, at Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, NewYork City. The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show once again captivated global audiences as it made its highly anticipated…
The Global Department: Preparing Leaders for an Interconnected World
Since 2017, Lake Forest Academy’s Global Department has fostered an understanding of global perspectives for students, educating them on how to act as responsible citizens of the world. The program…
The Signatures that Killed: How Parents are Enabling Mass Shootings
On a Tuesday morning in Highland Park, the sound of drums and laughter from the Fourth of July Parade was replaced by screams and gunfire. Amid the chaos, few knew…
Spectator Summer at the University of Chicago
This summer, I participated in the course Human Rights: Foundation Concepts, Global Challenges, in the three-week Immersion residential program at the University of Chicago. In this course, we explored questions…
Taking in the Study Abroad Experience in Barcelona
Over the summer, I studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain with CIEE Global Navigators: a program that takes high school and college students abroad. Studying Spanish Language and Culture, our group…