Our Honor's Advantage

I think when you hear the word Honors College, you think it's going to be super rigorous work that you don't have time for. It is a lot of work. But it's like work that is meaningful.

I was scared of all the expectations that anybody would have for me. But the Honors College here does such a great job of supporting students. It was not as intimidating not as scary as people tend to think.

I lived in the Honors College freshman year and that was great to be in the same building as my classes. It was like convenient and then I got to stay after with my professors if I needed to, because there wasn't any rush to get to or from classes.

Having all the resources that we do in this building, all of those are just very unique, where you really don't even have to leave your building to hang out with your friends or do your homework.

We work to facilitate events throughout the year to kind of keep our community going and making sure that people have an opportunity to meet with each other and grow together throughout the school year.

So our emphasis is not on deepening your study in a particular major area, but rather on broadening your education, and encouraging you to become academically intellectually engaged.

With honor sequences, your first-year honors course, it's interdisciplinary. So it's not necessarily one specific subject. It's kind of a year-long course, where you kind of are introduced to the Honors College, other Honors students, and you learn through a lot of different lenses, which is really cool.

They really push us to take classes that are outside of our major and really interact with students that come from different majors and different perspectives.

I was able to form so many different connections and learn about a topic that may be like I wasn't interested in at first, but now it's like something super cool, and learn about it from like eight or nine different aspects instead of just doing like a writing class or just doing a history class.

The way the professors structure the classes, it just makes it a lot more meaningful. You're here for school, but you also know that your professors are here for you as a person, and you can go to them with anything.

I think what I enjoyed most was how deep we got into the subjects we're studying. There was no surface-level nature of anything we are studying. You always had to get uncomfortable in your seat and really dig deep into things we're talking about.

I feel like the Honor students are the ones that will really speak up. And when you have a whole classroom of those, then you have really interesting and meaningful conversations among the classes.

The connections that you make with people in the Honors College, they're so important and they'll give you opportunities in life that like you can never really imagine.

You do have a built-in support network of like-minded people who will be willing to help you out. It's a really close-knit group of people who you can kind of rely on in your first couple of months here as you get used to being in college.

Even though Honors is so much focused on academics, there's so much more to being an Honor student than just focusing on school. And I feel like a lot of people really push you to go further than you've gone before.

It gives you a sense of community that is like no other feeling that you can describe. It's really awesome to be a part of something that makes you feel important and it makes you feel smart and makes you feel cared for.