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Cara Charpentier

Cara Charpentier / 2024 Team Fundraising

I ride for my grandma. I ride for my friends’ parents and grandparents and siblings who have had cancer. I ride for my parents who have taught me what it means to be a good person and the value of hard work. I ride for my sisters who have always been models to me of grace and strength. I ride for my friends who are supportive and loyal to no end. I ride for my teammates who are strong and willing to be so vulnerable. I ride for everyone who has known grief and loss. I ride for hope and the power of bringing people together in the fight against cancer. 

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    Cara--you are awesome! So cool that you are part of the Texas4000 team. To Alaska and back, indeed!

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About Cara Charpentier

Hey, it’s Cara! I’m a biomedical engineering and Plan II Honors student here at UT and a born-and-raised Texan from the Dallas area. I love paddle boarding, reading memoirs, playing with dogs, listening to John Green podcasts, attending spin classes, drinking hot chai lattes, going on road trips, experiencing new things, dressing like it’s the ‘70s, and listening to music. 

One thing I have always known about myself: I want to spend my life helping others. I hope to utilize my technical engineering skills within healthcare. My goal after graduation is to work in clinical settings as a medical device specialist to assist doctors and patients with the use of life-saving medical technologies. Another major goal of mine is to focus on the interpersonal relationships in my life and maintain strong connections with my friends and family. I believe that life’s value can be found within our relationships and the biggest impacts we make are on those we love. Thus, I am trying to prioritize my relationships as well as my career goals in order to build a life where I can make impacts larger than myself but also close to home.

I like to collect quotes that resonate with me whenever I read or hear them, so I’d like to share one that more beautifully and concisely encapsulates my outlook on life.

“I don’t want to give in to despair; I don’t want to take refuge in detached ridicule of unironized emotion. I don’t want to be cool, if cool means being cold to or distant from the reality of experience. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
- John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed