Time Warp

I love Saint Leo! One of the great things about going to a small school is that there are great opportunities for students and professors to see each other and get to know each other outside of the classroom. One such thing that I think must be unique to Leo is TimeWarp, our faculty/student rock band.

Tonight AST (one of our sororities) and TKE (one of our fraternities) hosted a TimeWarp party at the Oceola Tavern in Dade City. Amazingly enough, even though I’ve been at Leo for 3 years, this was only my second time seeing TimeWarp play. They are great!

When I first came to Leo I thought it would be weird to go to a party where the band is made up of the same faculty members you see in class Monday through Friday. It is strange for about the first 5 minutes. Then you realize that this would only happen at a school like Leo and you come to appreciate all the things that come from getting to know your professors beyond classroom material.

What’s funny is that faculty are not just in the band; they come to watch too. Tonight the chair of the Philosophy, Theology, and Religion Department, Fr. Tony, was at Oceola. I didn’t see him until after I had been out on the dance floor singing super loud and way off key. The other religion major I was with pointed him out to me. I went over to say hello. He invited me to sit down with him and proceeded to introduce me to the other faculty members at the table who I did not know. It’s neat to see your professors as real people.

Being a religion major, seeing how professors implement the ideals they teach in class into their personal lives inspires me to do the same. I would venture to say that I have learned at least as much from my faculty from seeing them live as I have from hearing them teach. This kind of personal contact would not happen at a large school.

This is me (on the right) with my roommate Laura (on the left), one of my best friends Sarah (in the middle), our friend Lucas (in the back).