It’s hard for us to believe it, but it’s true: the Class of 2022 is only a few weeks away from graduating! Over the next three weeks, we will be spotlighting students from the Class of 2022 – sharing their accomplishments, their reflections on their time at Stone, and their advice for future members of our community.

Carly M., University of Vermont

Where are you headed next Fall?

I’m headed The University of Vermont as a Trustee Scholar, with the intention of studying Biomedical Engineering and History.

What are you most excited to learn and experience next year?

I am really excited to be able to apply the skills I have learned in physics at Stone to the human body and to medical technology, especially in emergency medicine. I am also very very excited to be able to keep improving my writing skills through historical arguments and using those skills to move towards accessible, effective STEM communication.

What’s a project you feel particularly proud of from your time here at Stone?

I had the opportunity to take Beats 5 my junior year. The culminating research question of that course was, “What Is Exploration?” and in my response I worked to highlight change across time and place. In response to that question, I wrote a research paper investigating what it is that entropy can show us about exploration, and I also designed and created a dress to show changes across America, and across the Beats movement. I constructed the bodice as a patchwork, with each fabric correlating to a different photo I had taken on the trip. I sourced a lot of the fabric on the bodice from different places we stopped. The skirt had the entirety of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl written on it. The reading of Howl at Six Gallery is a critical point in the history of the Beats, and I wanted to pay homage to the changes the Beats experienced (and the changes they didn't experience) by including the poem.

What accomplishment are you most proud of from your time here at Stone?

Last summer I obtained my waterfront lifeguard certification while working at the summer camp I have been attending for close to 10 years. After about six weeks of preparation and training, I completed the test. This specific lifeguarding test included a deep water submerged save, extrication and back-boarding; a five-minute CPR component; and a four-person team rescue scenario. While it was extremely stressful, I passed with one of the fastest save times in my group. As a person who wants to go into the medical field, designing technology for emergency medicine situations, getting my waterfront lifeguard certification feels like a really tangible and good step towards being able to help others.

What advice do you have for students just beginning here at Stone?

Get involved. It’s the cliché answer, but Stone is a place where you not only have power as a student to change the school, but you have the responsibility to do so. Work, culture and space are all interconnected at Stone, and improving one improves the others.

And, just for fun: if you could pick one “walk-up” song for graduation, what would you pick?

Color In Your Cheeks, by The Mountain Goats.

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Carly M., University of Vermont