Mr. Vargas joins the Belmont Hill community this year as a Teaching Fellow for the Science Department. This year, he will teach Physics and IPS, while serving as a Form VI advisor alongside Mr. Doar. Given his background in neuroscience, Mr. Vargas will also assist with curriculum development for Dr. Goldberg’s biomedical engineering course. On the athletic side of campus, he currently coaches 5th soccer and plans to get involved with music at Belmont Hill.
Growing up in the Dominican Republic, Mr. Vargas attended a small K-12 Christian school in the city of Santiago. Throughout high school, he played on his school’s varsity soccer team and “was always interested in biology.” Additionally, he played the double bass for the National Youth Symphony Orchestra in the Dominican Republic. After graduating, Mr. Vargas attended Dartmouth College, where he majored in neuroscience and took chemistry and public health policy classes as part of a pre-medical track. He was very active as a student researcher, conducting research for a campus neuroscience lab for many years. In addition, he played the bass for Dartmouth’s symphony orchestra.
In his free time, Mr. Vargas enjoys playing in local soccer pick-up games, practicing his bass, and making an effort to work out “at least four times a week.” Although he wants to complete his education at some point and go to medical school, he is looking forward to the experiences that his time at Belmont Hill will bring: “I came to the United States with the intention of becoming a doctor, [so] going into education right now might be a little bit of a detour, but it’s still going to help me out in the end, and I’m really grateful to be here at Belmont Hill.”
