This Saturday marks the deadline for the deposit for admitted students. The Mirror often forgets that prospective students,alumni, and others also read the paper. All too often we tailor our content only to college students.
My writing is no different. The combination of articles about sex, alcohol, and partying does a poor job in providing an accurate reflection of Fairfield University, but some of them are fun to read.
With deposits due this Saturday I figured I would turn my attention to a different readership, admitted students, and the question: Why Fairfield?
Class size, internship opportunity, job networking, location, community, Jesuit Ideals, the campus, the list goes on.
These are all the reasons you find in any guidebook, info session or tour. These are the reasons that you cross a school off an excel spreadsheet or give it a star. However, by May 1st none of that is what matters.
So why Fairfield?
It would be a lie for me to say that the number of gorgeous girls I saw on my campus tour was not a small factor in coming to Fairfield. But let’s move past that factor.
It is the people. It sounds cliché but it is true.
Take anything on campus from FUSA, The Mirror, Intramurals, to Loyola Residential College. You can have the framework, the list of activities and the goals, but if you don’t have the people it does not work. The reason that Loyola Hall has been a success is because students want it to be a success and they love it. This is true of everything at Fairfield.
I’ll never forget the first time I called Fairfield home in front of my mother and that is a moment that you can’t show on a tour.
It’s the fact that people hold doors open here when you are so far away that you feel bad and start running so they don’t have to hold the door too long. Or the fact that as I write this I have realized I don’t have enough time to see all the seniors I want to see before they graduate.
It is the best four years of your life and the people at Fairfield from Mary in Barone swiping us into the cafeteria, to Jim Fitzpatrick who’s been here longer then I even know, to the teachers that sit waiting for students to come office hours, to everyone else at Fairfield.
So when you’re debating between Fairfield, Loyola, Providence, Holy Cross, and other schools, just remember it is the people like you that will make Fairfield great.
And while you sweat it out the rest of this week, debating where you will be sending your deposit on May 1st, just know that by the time your deposit gets here I will have been at Clam Jam down on Lantern Point (The Beach).
There is nothing better then being with all your friends whether it is at the Beach, in the dorms, or locked in the Library. It is the people that prove there is no question that Fairfield is the right school.
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