Stephanie "The amount of respect here
is unbelievable. Not everyone likes each other, but I think, at
least, everyone respects each other. It really is a community. When
the people here pass each other in the residence halls, they'll
say 'Hi' to each other because they've had at least one class together.
At first I was worried that it was going to be all these smart kids.
"It's great having unusual conversations that I wouldn't
have with the people back home because they might react like, "'What
are you talking about?' But here, we have conversations like with
Angelo in the lobby saying 'Well, how do you know that I can't fly?'
Fun things like that…and philosophical things that you can't talk
about with everyone."
Megan
"If you go to any particular person here, he or she
is likely to be involved in three or four different things. I know
I've become a much more tolerant person because where I came from
was very rural, a very small school with almost no diversity ethnically
and very little diversity of thought. The diversity here helped
me open myself up, and I think that's also very beneficial when
you go out into the workforce. Because like it or not, you'll be
dealing with people who have vastly different backgrounds, interests
and beliefs. You have to learn to appreciate other people instead
of feeling threatened by someone that's not the same."
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Josh
"That was by far my biggest concern when I came
here, when I heard the term 'honors college,' and especially the
term 'community of scholars.' I was really worried that it would
be a really study-intensive, learn-all-the-time type of group.
I was pleasantly shocked when I came here because there are so
many different people and there were people just like me. There
are people here that I can go out and shoot basketball with and
there are people that I can discuss Plato with. There are a lot
more people who are willing to do a lot more things. You might
find somebody who is an excellent pianist, but also willing to
go out and throw a football with you, or a hundred different things."
Kristen
"It really teaches you to learn to interact with
a group of people where there are just so many ideas, and those
ideas are so different from what you were used to in high school.
"People here have a lot of differences and interests,
things that you are involved with and things that you do, and
each person is like that. Back in my high school, there were people
like that, the people who always raised their hand. The people
who volunteered to help with something were the same people who
were in the theater section or on the basketball team, or in the
chorus or in band. They did something. They didn't just sit at
home and study. That is why they are here."
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