"Come to SLU! Come to SLU!"

This has been chanted by a few of my friends and me these past few days now that tours are happening more frequently on campus. This campus has changed so many people's lives, including mine, and I'm sure if you were to ask anyone on campus they would tell you they want other people to experience the same thing.

Seeing other people touring campus brings me back to this time approximately a year ago. I came up on the Saturday of SpringFest, which happens to be tomorrow, and toured with two other families and their college-bound kid. I didn't have strong feelings one way or the other for St. Lawrence, and I was hoping that my tour would help me form a better opinion.

However, my first view of SLU campus was not a very positive one. Many people were walking around with alcoholic drinks, beer cans were everywhere, and people were partying due to "Springfest preparations" my tour guide claimed. To say the least, I did not fall in love like many of my friends claim they did. If someone, anyone, would have came up to me and told me to come here, I wouldn't have had such a negative first impression. This is why I (along with my friends) want to make sure that others get the first impression they deserve, and more accurate than the one I had.

What is that impression? People here are friendly, hardworking, and SLU is a safe place to be. It's a home. There will always be parties no matter where you go, but you can get away from that, even on SLU's small campus.

So if you hear a couple of students chanting, "Come to SLU," that's just me and a couple of other students who absolutely love being here, and want other people to find a home like we did.