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If I were to describe Loyola to someone else, I'd say that Loyola is a place where you can
come and wrestle with the big enduring questions. Who am I? Where am I going? What does it mean
to love and serve other people? I think that a well lived, full meaningful
life is when you have made a change not only in your own life but in someone else's. It
doesn't necessarily have to be a big thing it can be tiny and miniscule but as long as
you have made a change in that way, that makes your whole life meaningful because you're
there for a certain reason and purpose. I think there's a really dynamic liberal arts
vision here and I love Loyola because it is Jesuit education in action.
The Jesuit principles that I absorbed at Loyola are timeless in my view. I think that they
were principles that the Jesuits aspired to from the founding of the order all the way
up to when I was educated here and I still believe that they exist today.
If I were to describe Loyola to someone else first I would ask them how much time do they
have because Loyola has so much to offer here and it would probably take a couple days to
actually tell them everything about it. However the biggest thing is not only does Loyola
offer a place where you can receive a great higher education but it's also a place where
you can come and find yourself as a person. I look at Loyola as a place where people are
encouraged to generously give themselves over to the service of others. And that generosity
is very contagious. I'm proud that I went to Loyola. I can't think
looking back over my life that any school would have been better for me or that I would
have had better influence on my life than I received from the Jesuits here at Loyola.
The future of the world depends on what we're doing. And that may be overstating it a little,
there may be a little bit of a Jesuit hyperbole there but I think it's essentially true. I
think that the actions that we engage in at Loyola and beyond do have a very profound
effect now and into the future.