Getting here:
I discovered COA when I was seven years old; my family would come up to Acadia every summer and do Diver Ed’s “dive-in theater” program, which leaves from the COA dock. So back then, COA was the magical place with the touch tank and the dioramas and the whale skull, and it wasn’t until later that I rediscovered it as a college.
The idea of actually coming to COA felt like a crazy fantasy for a long time, but the more time I spent here, the more I fell in love with this place, its people, and its educational philosophy. I attended the fall fly-in, and even though I didn’t officially make my choice until months later, I really was totally sold from that point forward. Even my guidance counselor heard me talk about COA and said “wow, Molly, you’re really head-over-heels for this place.”
Classes
FA18: Human Ecology, Political Communication, Poetry as Art and Social Action
WI19: International Wildlife Policy and Protected Areas, the History of Natural History, Advanced Composition
SP19: Environmentality, Conspiracy Theory and Political Discourse, Island Life
FA19: Transforming Food Systems, Politics of Israel, Constitutional Law
WI20: Environmental Law and Policy, Ecology, City/Country: Mapping Literary Landscapes
SP20: Dramatic Writing, Our Public Lands, Independent study on Art in Times of Plague
FA20: Marine Mammal Biology, Working the Sea, and Fixing Elections: Workshopping Democratic Solutions
Internship:
I’ve done part time internships in Congressman Seth Moulton’s district office and on Senator Ed Markey’s reelection campaign.