New York

Hi all, I apologize for being late in my weekly blog post. You may be wondering why my blog entry is called New York when I go to school in Kansas City. Well this past weekend I spent all of about 42 hours in New York for the Annual Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Honors Conference. It was a quick but fun trip. Last year Rockhurst has the privilege of hosting the national conference so I got to help with it and experience it as a freshman so it was really fun to go back and reconnect with some of the same students I had met last year. This year the Honors Director Dr. Mindy Walker went along with three other students who are all members of the Honors Executive Board with me

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            We got to stay at this nice hotel close to time square in downtown New York. So of course we did not only get to go to a great conference which was held at Fordham University but we got to see New York City. The night we got there we walked around time square and went to what we gathered was a famous New York City pizza place called John’s Pizza. Then the second day after the conference ended the students from all the schools went exploring. We went to the Metropolitan art museum as well as Central park and did a lot of walking. I really love these conferences you get to meet students from all over the country coming from all different walks of life. There is no reason that you would every cross paths with them if it was not for this conference but everyone is doing really exciting events both at their university both in the honors program and just at their university in general. For example two are spending the summer in Africa filming a documentary and another one is studying abroad in France next year just to name a few.

            We came back with a lot of good ideas for our honors program. Each schools honors program has their own unique DNA but there are always tips you can take from these conferences as well as just forming relationships and getting to meet a lot of awesome people.