New Growth-New Friends-New Experiences
March 2008
March came up so rapidly. I had received good news at the beginning of the month; my father had spoken to my grandfather and he is doing much better than at the beginning of the semester. My grades were coming up, and I had actually made a difference in a kid’s life. I had to make a phone call on behalf of the admissions office here at Saint Leo, to talk to a family about my experience this summer in the LEAP program. His name was Cliff, and he was not sure if he wanted to go through with the program or not. I told him and his family about my experience, and just how much it changed my life as well as my perspective on college, months before my freshman year even began. Luckily, my advice and words encouraged him to not only attend Saint Leo, but go through with the summer program. I knew at that moment that Saint Leo was, with no question or regret, the place I needed to be for the next four years of my life. It had already done so much for me, I hadn’t even noticed. I have become a stronger, smarter, more responsible student while being here this short period of time; I could never guess what lay ahead for me here. My academic standards have always been set for me by my parents and me; yet unlike before, I know I can achieve them. Friendships I had lacked in high school, I had doubled them while being here, and they were friendships worth having 20-30 years from now. If you were to ask me before I left for the LEAP program in July, if I was to be this involved, or even think that a college could define a person, I would have said no. Now, I can strongly say that every aspect that Saint Leo stands for, I can relate to a part of myself that I have seen come out of me over the past 7 months. With only a short few weeks left until my first year in college comes to a close, I can see how the good, the bad, and yes even sometimes the worse, have helped me grow and mature as a person, a student, a daughter, and a Saint Leo Lion.
P.S. Yay for March Madness and Spring Break!!