The Levine Scholars Program
Levine Connection
Fall 2022
Vol 13 Edition 1
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY By MacK Ridge ’25
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his past summer, I spent six weeks in a pair of thrifted, baggy, blue jeans. I would wake up at 6:00am everyday and make my coffee, choose a t-shirt out of my Habitat for Humanity collection, then slip on those jeans. Each evening they told a different story, with new rips at the knees, new strokes and colors of paint up and down the thigh, and new tracks of caulk leaving impressions on the shins. Each night I would toss them in my washer and pray they came out a little cleaner by morning, but the knees retained grass stains, and the back pockets let everyone know where I wiped my hands after painting a bedroom door. Those jeans hold a million stories about my internship with Habitat for Humanity.
MacK and other scholars took part in the Critical Home Repair program. Habitat for Humanity is a longstanding partner of the Levine Scholars Program.
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