As The Cambridge School marks twenty years, An Examined Education opens a new season by turning to the voices that know its formation from the inside: its alumni. In this season-opening episode, we hear from Alyssa Kim, Class of 2022, now a senior at Georgetown University studying history on a pre-med track. Alyssa reflects on a journey shaped by Cambridge from pre-K through graduation, one that cultivated not only academic excellence but a way of seeing the world. From “living history” in grammar school to translating Latin and Greek in the upper school, Alyssa describes how the humanities at Cambridge became more than a subject of study. They became a practice of immersion, context, and empathy, training students to understand people across time, culture, and circumstance. History, literature, and language were not merely facts to master but lenses through which to inhabit another’s world. As she prepares for a vocation in medicine, Alyssa connects the humanities to the sciences, arguing that education aimed at excellence must also train us to understand the human person. At its core, she reflects, education is ordered toward people, toward service, wisdom, and a life lived with purpose. This episode sets the tone for a season of alumni stories that explore how a formative education continues to echo long after graduation, shaping habits of mind, guiding vocation, and reminding us what it means to live a fully human life.