20 Alumni Stories - Ethan Chin
Ethan Chin graduated with Cambridge's eighth class in 2025 and has been part of the community since junior kindergarten. Now a freshman at Harvey Mudd College, he reflects on what it meant to spend formative years in a place that valued depth over speed, discussion over delivery, and formation over output. Ethan unpacks two ideas that have stayed with him: coherentism as an epistemological model, the web of interconnected beliefs that deepen and reinforce one another, and the paradox of the "inefficient education." At a rigorous science college surrounded by peers who took organic chemistry in high school, he's finding that what Cambridge gave him can't be replicated later. Rightly ordered affections, the capacity to think at depth, the groundedness to know who you are amid a sea of competing ideas: these don't come from a textbook or a summer of self-study.
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