Chanel Mazzone, a senior at Stonehill College and a resident assistant in the Holy Cross Center shared her love towards her family at home and at college along with expressing her thoughts towards life after graduation, and reminiscing on her childhood past.
Being an only child of Tom and Ann Marie Mazzone, born in Boston but raised in Milton, MA, Mazzone wanted to go to school close to home. Her father is a consultant and professor, her mother is an artist, and they met at a gym. She said she wishes she had an older sister, but thinks of herself as an older sister for the girls living in the Holy Cross Center.
Stonehill is Mazzone’s second choice school, since being denied from the University of Notre Dame. However, she looks at college as if it is a “stepping stone” to the real world, where she’ll work and live on her own.
A neuroscience and interdisciplinary studies major who is planning on going to graduate school after she takes a year off to do domestic service in the Brockton, Massachusetts area. She said that there are many issues she wants to see resolved in the community outside of Stonehill. Although she says to love her major, Mazzone revealed that her true passion lies in Environmental Justice and Sustainability. She plans on using her academic and environmental strength while doing volunteer work after college.
After a year of volunteer work, her next goal is graduate school at the University of Notre Dame.
Mazzone said that two weeks into her freshman year at Stonehill while living in O’Hara, she decided she was never leaving. “On graduation day you’ll see me hanging on to Donahue Hall because I won’t be ready to leave.”
When asked what she will miss the most about Stonehill, she joked with “I’m planning on never leaving”, then said she will miss the vibrant community the most and being surrounded by “amazing professors and staff” that have been supportive all four years of her time at Stonehill.
Her favorite class she took at Stonehill was in her sophomore year, called Learning Community. She said it was three classes that combined Environmental Science and Political Sociology in the Food Politics Seminar. Mazzone said her interdisciplinary major was shaped by these classes. She said she views the professors of the Learning Community class as her mentors.
Her love for Stonehill also has to do with her boyfriend of three years, Chris Langfield- a Psychology major and a Criminology minor, who is also a resident assistant. He is making plans for his future as well, apart from Stonehill and the memories they made on campus. She met Langfield the third day of her freshman year and that same year in the second semester, he asked her to be his girlfriend.
Mazzone said she does not see marriage in her life in the upcoming years, but it is something she wants once she is established career wise.
While at Stonehill she says to miss her three year old rat terrier named Jesse, who is living at home with Mazzone’s mom, so “she would not be lonely”.
When asked what her biggest regret in life is she said “I guess any time that I felt I could have worked harder or done better. I guess more specifically, I wish I had held on to my friends that I had made freshman through sophomore year a little harder as well. Once you let relationships go, it's hard to get them back.”
At 5’6, her favorite color is purple and her favorite television show is Once Upon a Time, and her favorite books are the harry potter series. Mazzone said she is more of a night person rather than a morning person, because she gets her work done best when the sun is down.
She categorizes her political affiliation as independent, because she understands both sides of the republican and democratic ideas. She said she does not want to be tied down to one set of beliefs.
She is catholic and enjoys going to a school that values the catholic beliefs and traditions.
Mazzone’s favorite childhood memory is when she used to ski and snowboard with her parents in the winter. She said she “always tear up” when thinking about those memories.
Her childhood fear was losing her first stuffed animal, a lamb, named lamb. Mazzone said when she was in Paris, France in first grade, she almost dropped lamb off of the Eiffel tower.
Her biggest fear in life as an adult, is not being able to do everything she possibly can, and because of this, waisting her life on unimportant tasks that cannot benefit or help others.
Mazzone said if she could change one thing about herself, she wishes she could make more time to spend with her friends since she pushes herself to have a busy sche
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