Through a Student’s Lens: Watching Landmark College’s Future Rise
by Tricia Stanley
.jpg)
Every day on my way in to work, I stop and say hello to first-semester student Jeremy Kovac. Since the start of the semester, Jeremy has been outside in rain, snow or shine watching the Nicole Goodner MacFarlane Center for Science, Technology & Innovation as it is constructed. He is a wealth of knowledge about what is happening with the construction, and I look forward to getting my daily update from him. Jeremy is well known by the foreman on site and has become something of a celebrity around campus.
Each day in my morning stop, I have also gotten to know more about Jeremy and his interest in the construction project. His fascination in the MacFarlane Center stems from a love of construction and architecture. He loves “watching things being built.” He has turned his daily habit into a small project for his Video 1 class and is working on making a documentary film based on the project in the future.
He mentions that he is “most impressed with the size and efficacy of the building’s square footage, and the functions the College plans to have within it.” Jeremy shared, “I kind of have an internal time lapse in my mind of the progress of the building!”
Jeremy stated that he chose Landmark College because “it is a place that will help me in my skill sets, in things like math and writing.” Self-disclosing his LD as a nonverbal learning disability (NVLD), he states that sometimes his diagnosis makes putting all the pieces together harder. Declaring that in his first semester, he is “doing great!” as a partial credit student, Jeremy is excited to be taking a full schedule of credit courses in the Spring. “I take full advantage of the DCAS daily, and that has been most helpful for me so far.”
Most of all, Jeremy states, he “really likes how close the community is here” at Landmark College.
Jeremy plans to earn his associate’s degree in Liberal Arts here at Landmark College and then hopes to move on to a trade school for a degree in light and sound design, with a focus on theatre production. He is currently volunteering at Next Stage in Putney, assisting the theatre company's light and sound crew. He also plans on helping with the Landmark College play, You Can't Take it With You, this spring. Jeremy says, “I have always loved the theater — I love the process from start to finish. Building the set is like watching the MacFarlane Center: it’s like setting the scene. It fascinates me.”