Marymount New York Interview

Anna Lee '16, Marymount News Editor

This past month, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview three Marymount NY girls through email. Curious about how their lifestyle differed with the students from Marymount LA, I asked them a series of questions that were pertinent to the general ambience of New York and how it felt to go to a school in such a bustling and a beautiful city. I’ve interviewed four students: Lucy L.(’16), Elizabeth G. (’15), Stefi M. (’16), and Lola A. (‘16).

One of my first questions was how it felt like going to a school in NY, and their responses were shocking. Elizabeth G. wrote of their experiences of going to Metropolitan Museum of Art, MET because “Freshmen take a course called Humanities, which combines History, English, and Art History, and they get to go the Met each week for that class. There is even a classroom at the Met that we get to use. Most of the time, a class will be having History or English in the classroom, while another class is learning about Art History up close and personal in the galleries.” They also discussed their experiences of having the incredible opportunity to go to the Central Park; “We are also located right across from Central Park, which not a lot of New York schools can say. It gives us an incredible view from our classrooms, and occasionally, we will go to the park as part of a class.” Their culture experience can include a trip to the UN General Assembly to watching Broadway shows.

Despite Marymount LA’s lack of opportunity to visit the Central Park on any given day, Elizabeth G. shared that her favorite things about her school is “the community” she shares with her Marymount friends as well as faculty, whom she has “honestly loved, respected, and learned from almost every single one of the teachers [she] have had since second grade, and that makes [her] feel like one of the luckiest people in the world.” Lucy L, Stefi M, and Lola A. also agreed with Elizabeth about their close bond with the faculty and shares that the “classrooms at our 84th have fire places, mantle pieces, big windows with park views, and massive winding staircases.” It has been homes before it became a school and has a “relatively homey feel.” Their overwhelming and wonderful interviews made this possible, and we could all hope that this will be the first step to connect both of our campuses together.