Sacred Heart University Top Questions

Many believe that college is just continuing school from high school but it is truly something much more than that. It is a step into our future careers, a place to find who we are and who we want to become as individuals. For myself, I continued dancing because it has always been a passion of mine. In being part of the dance team i was able to find friendships with many people and understand what it truly means to be part of a team and more importantly, a family. Sacred Heart allowed me to also give back and be very involved with local communities. With just 3 semesters left, i would not change anything with my experience at Sacred Heart amd can only build off it until the day of graduation.

College is a place for me to grow and redefine my life completely. Before I attended Sacred Heart University I lived in a world that was self centered. I felt only responsibile for helping people with whom I had a connection. After only a few weeks at Sacred Heart I found myself thrown into a world of community service and surrounded by people who spent their lives giving back to others. I quickly found myself involved in activites that I would have never dreamed of doing before Sacred Heart. Sacred Heart has given me the opportunity to build three homes through Habitat for Humanity, raise money to purchase 500 turkeys for Thanksgiving (to donate to families in the Bridgeport Community), and mentor a little girl for the past two years. It has been valuable for me because it changed my life and the way I see other people and my desire to help them. I live by the quote, "the best way to find yourself is to loose yourself in the service of others" and Sacred Heart has made that possible for me.

College has opened me up to a host of new experiences. In my two years there I have met friends that will last me a lifetime. I have also expanded my educational reach and really learned a lot more than if I had just stayed at home. I am on the equestrian team and my riding skills have expanded greatly from my college riding experience.

From my college experience I have grown as not only a student but as an individual. My peers and professors have challenged me to push my own limits and try new things. I have been exposed to people, cultures, and experiences that I would never have come in contact with if I had not attended Sacred Heart University. That exposure will remain with me when become a college professor myself and it is my turn to teach.

I have gained many friends at this school. I love all of my professors. I met the man I am going to marry. The amount of school work here is a lot but I know the school is preparing me well for my future! I would not have chosen any other school!

Since I recently transferred to SHU I haven't gotten to experience much lately but I love it here. Everyone is so nice and the teachers and staff are so willing to help and include you that being here has changed me as a person and has made me love college!

Beore I went to college I was very shy and very sheltered. After my 4 years of college, I am now pursuing my Master's Degree with a new found appreciation for life. I have a better outlook on life and am now very outgoing and have made life long friends. I know without Sacred Heart, I would not be where I am today and I am thankful for each and everyone of my professors for pushing me to be the greatest I could be. I would not change this experience for anything, which is why I am attending Sacred Heart for my Master's program.

I have made a lot of good friends and learned a lot about what I want out of life. I have made a decision about what career I want to pursue.

Because college life creates the real you and build characters inside of us.

Thomas More realized that "many are schooled, but few are educated." The same can be said in our time: many students go to college, but only a precious few become educated, incumbent to which is to possess a love for the lifelong pursuit of truth. Fittingly, then, my experience at Sacred Heart University is best described as one of intellectually vigorous classes, innovative campus events, and culturally engaging trips, all of which allowed me to experience and develop an ever-deepening and broadening desire to understand. To become educated in this manner?at once personally enriching and globally relevant?is increasingly rare. And yet, it is vitally necessary. The university, according to English political theorist Michael Oakeshott, must provide such a foundational experience, 'an initiation into a civilization? [a] beginning to learn our way about a material, emotional, moral and intellectual inheritance.' This is more than reading great books, although that is certainly an essential part of any education worthy of the name. It is primarily about acquiring fluency in "languages"?how to think historically, philosophically, scientifically?and having the "leisure," as in being wholly immersed in learning. I am very grateful for the opportunity to have done just that.