What CA Means to Me
Seth
Day Student
Newton, MA
How has being a serious wrestler enhanced your education at CA?
The discipline that I have learned from wrestling has helped me tremendously with doing work that needs doing, when I might rather be doing something else. I have also learned, through wrestling, to be very intensely focused when I need to be (even for months on end, during wrestling season!). As a committed member of a successful team, I have allowed myself an additional way in which to incorporate myself into our rich community.
What have you learned about yourself through your academic work at CA?
In general, I have preferred focused studies to surveys, especially courses more unique than your typical US History or sophomore English class—classes such as Violence and Identity in the Balkans or The Literature and World War I and Its Literary Aftermath.
How has CA faculty made a difference in your learning experience at CA?
CA’s faculty is easily one of its most valuable assets. All of the teachers that I have encountered are intelligent, realistic, kind, well versed in their respective fields and, best of all, eager to get to know each and every one of their students. They are invested in what they do, always willing to help with academics or adolescence. This has allowed me to make the most of my high school experience, not merely my academic high school experience.
Interests and Activities
Captain, wrestling team; cross country; lacrosse; soccer; cofounder, Improv Club; cocaptain, Paintball Club; cohead, Computer Gaming Club; Concord Academy Service Activists (CASA); cohead, All-School Council Entertainment Committee
Of all these, do you consider any a passion?
On Sunday nights after I have finished my homework, I compete with a team in an online multiplayer computer game. I consider this a passion.
I find that I do not do much outside of CA, simply because CA offers most of what I desire, and, as a result, I find that the majority of my time is invested in an event or activity at, or organized by, CA.
Have you done any coursework or projects that crossed disciplines?
My current history course, Comparative European Revolutions, frequently looks at the art produced during a revolution as evidence of the values and attitudes of the time.
I took two music courses, Materials of Music and American Popular Music, that taught me much about the music itself, but also about the origins of the music, and what was significant about the music at the time. While looking at different Spanish cultures during my Spanish III class, we often looked at artists of the different countries.
