Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago is a Jesuit institution that promotes caring for others, caring for one’s self, and caring for the community. It is one of Loyola’s foundational aspect of caring for the community that has made the requirement of engaged learning a part of the curriculum. Since the Fall of 2012, Loyola has required its students to go out into the world and obtain hands-on experience in different sorts of fields. One may accomplish this through an internship course, or a class combined with an engaged learning component. The purpose of engaged learning is to provide real-world, hands on experience that helps the student relate their subject material to life, and gain a more in-depth knowledge of the subject at hand. Thus, Loyola hopes…

necessary, adversely affected my academic performance in my early college years as I focused on having ‘typical’ college experiences. My focus appropriated when I started my upper division classes as the coursework became more demanding and relevant to what I enjoyed studying. Psychology courses in child and youth development drove me to take an education course for fun, which ultimately led to adding the minor. It was in these classes that I was first introduced to the school psychologist,…

Clifton Zhuo Dr. Greenberg World Religions 19 November, 2015 Experience in Catholicism On the nineteenth of November, I took part of the mass that was held in Loyola Marymount University. I have been in the Sacred Heart Chapel before. However, this would be my first time going into the St. Mary’s Chapel. When I decided to attend the mass at St. Mary’s Chapel, the first thing that came to my mind were the old memories of my childhood. I attended a catholic elementary school during my…

The Cougar’s Den would be a bar and grill type of establishment located on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Its mission is to provide and fun and safe environment for students and faculty to enjoys drinks and/or appetizers on campus after a long day of class. With having this on campus students of the legal drinking age that live on campus won’t have to drink and drive. Things that still need to be investigated are laws and rules preventing the sale of alcoholic…

Last week, I attend Grace College chapel. In order further my communication skills I analyzed the audience and speaker at this chapel. Caleb Yoder was speaking. The first thing I analyzed was the demographic factors of the audience. Chapel is made up college students typically from the age seventeen to twenty-four. The school is made up of about sixty-five percent female and thirty-five male. Grace College is a christian school that has its roots in the Grace Brethren denomination; however, the…

Empty stomach, empty mind. Like a brimming bowl of Chipotle, a University of Chicago education is customizable, satisfying, and hearty. The familiar amalgamation of rice and beans, meat and vegetables is the essence of any Chipotle product. This delicious bowl, however, is flexible: whether it be mild, medium, or hot, every single bowl will always contain a type of salsa. These broad categories (meat, beans, salsa) diverge into a variety of options (carnitas, sofritas, pinto, black),…

organizations, the Jesuits, were disbanded by the pope on rumors of heresy. The pope, Clement XIV, did not suppress the Jesuits for heresy but for more political reasons. After losing the support of Portugal, he dispersed the Order to appease the French and Spanish rulers in order to save face and keep their support. It has been argued that the pope did this as a result of a series of localized political moves rather his reason being a theological controversy. These localized political moves…

In a country where one in three Americans own at least one firearm, gun control becomes a little tricky. While proposed legislation, would restrict and regulate future gun purchases, there are already so many guns in circulation. It is very helpful to look to cities that have strict gun laws already in place. Above Jake mentioned that Chicago has fairly tight gun regulations. In a recent report, Chicago saw over 1,000 deaths due to gun violence in the first six months of the year alone. The…

Essay One: Rough Draft Both Aleksandar Hemon and Eula Biss both argue that having a sense of belongingness to a community is important for people to feel, and I agree with that because having a place to call home can make someone feel like they are a part of something and makes them feel comfortable. On the contrary, if you do not feel as though you belong to a certain community, you lose a sense of uniqueness and having a special emotional tie to where you live. In Aleksandar Hemon's "Lives…

have to be overtly involved in the practices. We always had fruitful conversations on our beliefs, yet the way he described faith helped me forge my own. He taught to hold onto god even in the roughest moments, because there are always perilous moments but faith is the one thing that will never leave. He described god as a being that is in everything, we might not see it but we can feel his presence. Fabio, was the person who inspired me to choose Loyola as the institution to complete my…