Marquette University Top Questions

I have learned to work with others and I value their opinions and contributions which has helped me in my work life. I also learned about caring for the whole person not just the disease the person has.

From my college experiences, I've learned more about myself and other people. I've learned that we are all different and have to recognize that in order to work together responsibly. If we don't acknowledge that others have different valid values and accept that fact, we cannot live in peace. This social revelation brought on by all the different people Marquette University attracts supplements my education in understanding different cultures and how to create peaceful resoultions in the face of conflict that I am taking on with my Political Science and Anthropology majors. Being able to see how my peers intereact and respond to each other, despite their differences is giving me a foundation to deal with cultures on a larger scale.

Marquette University is much more than an academic facility, it’s a place of intellectual, physical, and spiritual growth. As an aspiring Physician Assistant, I am taught valuable knowledge about human anatomy and medicine that we can apply to our lives. Here’s an example: when you “hit your funny bone” you’re actually wedging the ulnar nerve in between the olecranon process and humerus, which causes a horrible tingling sensation in your pinky and only half of your ring finger. It’s true! Thanks to Dr. Cullinan (the coolest professor ever), now y’all know. Additionally, attending Marquette has given me the support I need to independently make responsible decisions. MU has helped me realize that life isn’t about partying - it’s about focusing on what’s really important. For me, I’ve chosen to focus on my faith and future career. Marquette has helped me to strengthen my relationship with God through Campus Ministries. I believe the core of every person comes from their faith – no matter the denomination - and I feel blessed to be at an institution that gives me these resources I need to find myself and continue to grow intellectually, physically, and spiritually.

This will be my first year as a full time student. I want to make the most out of this college experience. I look foward to attending college full time and getting closer to achieving my goal.

I have personally gained an immense amount of knowledge not only about becoming a nurse, but about myself. I have found out that any class is possible with effort, that signing up for a tutor does not mean that you are dumb but that you are smart enough to know that you need help and that living with a roommate at college is not all fun and games. Every person will experience college differently and that is the beauty of it; whatever you put into college is what you will get in return, which really holds true with anything that you do. I am so greatful that I am able to attend a four year college and for the sacrifices my parents take every day to raise my severely handicap brother with no help. My parents are truly my hero and college has really shown me how much that they have done for me and my siblings.

I think I have learned more in my first year of college than I have in almost my entire life. While I learned so much from my parents and teachers growing up, there was so much left that I had to learn by going away from home to live and learn on my own. Marquette has taught me how to be a better student, friend, family member, and Catholic. My Marquette experience has already been extremely valuable as it has allowed me to develop into a kind, smart, conscientious adult that I now get to be for the rest of my life. The College of Health Sciences has afforded me excellent educational opportunities as well as professional ones, helping me get a foot into the working world. All the professors and students are excellent people, and have provided me with friends and peers who genuinely care about me and my well-being. Needless to say, Marquette overall has helped me to develop into an adult and to build relationships and professional foundations that will last a lifetime.

I have gotten to know who I am and grow.

College has been valuable to me because it really opened my eyes up to the world around me. I grew up in a middle class area and went to a good high school with those who were also well off. I really didn't have much of an idea what life was like for those who weren't as well off. Throught Marquette, not only got to know people in my classes who were from many different areas and their views on life and their backgrounds, but I also had the ability to volunteer in an inner city Milwaukee nursing home in which I played games with those who lived there and learned about their backgrounds and childhoods from the games we played. These experiences showed my much different ways at looking at things in life and that my point of view is very limited. There is much we can all learn from each other if we just stop and listen and take into account what others have to say. In sum, I not only have taken away what I have learned from books in class, but also from those I have met along the way.

I've really learned to be independent and stand up for what I believe in. I've really been able to come to terms with what my values are in life and how to live them. Marquette has offered me a way to think boradly about life but still provide an academic backbone to do well in my professional field.

I enjoy every minute that I spend at school. I love my dorm, my friends, my major and the campus. At Marquette, we are in the middle of the city and I would not have it any other way. There is always something to do and something to learn. I am a physiological sciences major and the classes I am taking are getting me excited about the future. I have definitely learned a lot in my three semesters at MU, not only about science and other subjects, but about myself. This is what I am most grateful for, I learned that I am capable of almost anything if I just work at it and that I am stronger than I think.