The Mount Carmel Summer To-Do List Lingers
James McCormac '25
As Mount Carmel students and faculty are heading into the summer, it is not the break it is meant to be for everyone. Students are already preparing to complete all their summer class projects-because MC students never forget about them.
But what is hardly mentioned is the growing summer to-do list that the faculty and staff have to complete as well. This list is as old as the school itself, with some of its items existing on it for over a century.
MC principal Mr. Scott Tabernacki has expressed that some of the items on the list are simply too difficult to get done on a normal summer work schedule. After all, cleaning out the back of the stage in the Student Center is way too complicated a task to finish in one or two years.
“There is just so much back there, and it's so difficult to clean it,” said Mr. Tabernacki.
Another long standing item on the Mount Carmel summer to do list is to fix the ceiling in the basement of the main building. It is unknown what has caused the ceiling in the main building to get to the state it is in now, although a bear attack is the leading theory.
“I swear I saw a bear enter through the security gate while nobody was looking,” head football coach Jordan Lynch said timidly. “I had just bailed out a football player from the deans office at the time.”
Creating a stable WiFi network is also a summer to-do list item at Mount Carmel every year, and somehow the school has been unable to accomplish this since the creation of the internet. “I remember back when we didn't have WiFi at Mount Carmel like it was yesterday, probably because it was,” said Mr. Mark Antonetti, English and Mandarin teacher and head tennis coach.
The giant room of servers and electrical cords in the science wing grows steadily every year in the pursuit of this stable WiFi. It is unknown whether anyone actually knows what half of the things in that room are used for.
Another thing that has been on the summer to do list for a while is the installation of an elevator in the main building. “Wouldn't it be nice to not have to climb all those stairs anymore?” said junior Ryan Gilhooly. “And the elevator tickets I sell to freshmen would finally have a purpose as well.” Most students agree that the elevator would be a great addition to the building, and there is plenty of room for it as well.
All Mount Carmel students and faculty hope that the summer to-do list at Mount Carmel gets completed this summer, no matter how unlikely that may be. It would be a great thing to come back to after model MC students complete all of the summer work that they’re known to do.