{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanexaminededucation.com%2Fepisodes%2Fs07e14-E1IF7_MG","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"20 Alumni Stories - Isaiah Francisco","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/cd163573-3026-4220-92c4-1559ade773fb/b4f99998-05d8-405f-b1ca-fa4f852350cc/tcs-1920aee-icon-final-1.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Isaiah Francisco enrolled at Cambridge in kindergarten and graduated thirteen years later with the class of 2023. He is now a junior at the University of Notre Dame, majoring in history and minoring in International Security Studies, and is preparing for a commission as a Naval officer. His story is one of formation meeting vocation.\nWhen Isaiah reflects on Cambridge, he reaches naturally for the school's telos: think well, love rightly, live wisely. Not as a slogan, but as a lived framework he can trace through his college experience with remarkable specificity. The habits Cambridge built in him, seeking out professors, pressing through difficulty, asking for help before the difficulty became crisis, proved to be precisely what his freshman year demanded of him. The holistic curriculum that once felt like a burden became the foundation for navigating a major in history alongside two semesters each of calculus, physics, and naval engineering.\nBut Isaiah's formation at Cambridge runs deeper than academic preparation. The rightly ordered affections Cambridge cultivated in him, his love of service, his commitment to Christ, his sense of what deserves his time and attention and what does not, are the values he is now carrying into a calling. He wants to serve as a surface warfare officer not out of ambition but out of gratitude, and he traces that impulse directly to the ministerium Cambridge wove into the fabric of daily school life."}