I thought some students might want to hear about my experience so far with the honors program: a topic that's very appropriate because I have a six page civ paper due tomorrow. When I received my acceptance packet to the honors program, over ten months ago now, I was absolutely overjoyed. As the summer approached, I was a little nervous because I had no idea how hard it would be, and as a very fun-loving person, working all the time wouldn't really wouldn't suit my interests. As a first semester freshman, you will typically only have honors civ, though I have a few classmates that elected to take a second honors class. The class itself really isn't bad: there's alot more reading and they grade a bit tougher...but its definetly managable. Instead of having civ in the huge lecture hall, we have it in an ordinary classroom. It meets 4 days a week, one of which is a two hour seminar.

The class has three teachers (a history professor, a literature professor, and a friar), and on lecture day one will lecture while the other two occupy the time by either reading or listening intently. On seminar day, we break up into 3 groups of about 15 and have a writing workshop to help us with our paper and receive some very individal instruction. Every 3 weeks, we rotate seminar professors and they each have their own style of instruction in the same assignments. The personal attention is probably the greatest thing about the honors program. The seminars are incredibly small and its a really intimite setting, so be warned, if you haven't done your reading, the professor will know.