FIU Honors College Research Paper

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The FIU Honors College is built upon one core tenet: urging students towards excellence. That tenet is what draws me to the Honors College. I’m a student who is deeply vested in ever pulling myself towards reaching my full potential. Consequently, I align with the Honors College’s mission to ensure that their students are evermore excellent, not just as academics, but as citizens of the world.

I seek to seize the opportunities provided to me by the Honors College to secure a life of liberty: the liberty to advance my experience and sate my voracious appetite for knowledge. In order to become an active force for constructive change in society’s future, I must ensure myself this liberty. The expanding prominence of digital technology in the

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