Senior Profile: Maisy Glick
Maisy Glick is a proctor in French House. Heavily involved with iWilliston and Secretary for the senior class, Maisy’s is a familiar face at campus activities and events. Despite always sticking around for clean-up, she finds time for Arête and writing center tutoring and becoming a member of the Cum Laude society. Maisy can be found managing Girls Varsity Squash in the winter or on the field “passing the disc” with the Ultimate team in the spring.
Q: What is your best memory from your time at Williston?
A: I think that going to advisory has been my favorite thing because, especially during sophomore and junior year I was really close with my advisory; it was like a little family. We didn’t have any seniors so they all graduated last year so I had two years to get to know them. Spending time with them every Wednesday and Friday was nice.
Maisy during this year’s Cum Laude assembly.
Q: What accomplishment are you most proud of?
A: The fact that I stayed at Williston. The first few months at Williston were kind of difficult for me and I blame that partially on myself because I was a very confident person at my old school and coming into a new environment was difficult. I didn’t necessarily make the most of my opportunities at first. Finally, in the spring, something changed and I pushed myself out of my comfort zone and I saw that I was somewhere that I actually enjoyed. So from going from the winter and not wanting to stay to the spring where I loved it, I’m proud that I found a way to love Williston.
Q: What activities have you most enjoyed at Williston?
A: I have really enjoyed Student council. I’m very involved in it and I’ve enjoyed the fact that I can help make the Williston experience better for other people. I also played Ultimate Frisbee last year and that was completely different. It was unlike any other sport I’ve played or any other type of competition. The attitude around it is pretty unique. The time I had with that team was the most enjoyable experience I’ve had during an afternoon program.
Q: What would you recommend younger students try at Williston?
A: I would tell them to get out of [their] rooms. That is the biggest thing. Get out of your rooms and if you’re a day student don’t just go home immediately. Especially after my difficult experience, getting out of my room was the biggest thing. My proctors and my advisor and dorm parents really pushed me to do that. Ms. Noble kind of said, this year, one of our mottos was, “Be there.” Be at the sporting events. Be at the concerts. Just be there. Be doing something at Williston. For students, that would be my best advice. Don’t be the one who didn’t go. Be the one who’s telling everyone about it.
Q: What will you miss most about Williston?
A: Williston brunch, for one. I love that. I tell all my tours that it’s my favorite thing. And at Williston, if there’s something that you want to do, they make it possible. Opportunities are very accessible to us. Once we leave, I’m going to have to be more independent and seek my own opportunities, but at Williston, the teachers are there for you. Your friends are there for you. You have constant support and constant encouragement to make happen what you imagine. Once I leave, that’s something I’m really going to miss.
Q: What are you most looking forward to after you graduate?
A: Independence. Complete independence and feeling like an adult. I’m ready for the experience of making all my own decisions and really taking hold of my maturity. I’ll miss the support we have here but I look forward to doing my own thing.
Q: Where do you see yourself in five years?
A: Five years. That’s a long time away. I hope to be in culinary school at that point. It’s something that a lot of people don’t know about me, but my dream is to own a bakery. Not some little cupcake shop, but a bakery. Over the summers I work in my grandparents’ Bed and Breakfast and I bake every day. It’s something I can’t do at Williston, because I’m a boarder. Hopefully, I’ll be done with college and in culinary school or working a part-time job doing something like that, just pursuing what I really, really enjoy.
