Regis University
Honorable News Volume 9, Issue 1
Here For the Long Trek —Michael Sucharski, Class of 2017
18 Oct ‘13
“These challenges will give us such a deeper understanding of the university and the education of what we will receive here.”
Inside this issue: They Say / We Say
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Honors Advisory Council
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Director’s Note 3 Alumni Corner
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Announcements 4 (Look at them, they’re really important)
ings we are assigned and the essays we write are much greater than those we faced in High School. I used to groan at the thought of writing a 3-page paper for AP English Literature, but that’s nothing compared to what we are faced with. And it will only get worse as we go along. But these challenges will give us such a deeper understanding of the university and the Above: The honors mural is almost complete! Thanks to education of what Grace Corrigan, Gabe Harper, and Hannah Breece we will receive here. It’s just like climbing a Being in the Honors Proforesight to see the rewards that mountain. The trek up is ardugram here at Regis is like lookwould be ours if we could only ous, but what a beautiful view ing up to the summit of a loom- climb the mountain? awaits us at the top! ing mountain. We stand there at It’s a personal question. But the base, craning our necks to I am so sure that being in I would say that, for me, the ansee the three professors standthe Honors Program will enaswer is all three. Certainly the ing at the peak. They seem so ble us to see more, to be program will provide all three. small from here, as do the other more, to do more, not just as These four years that we spend students who have already startstudents but as human beings, in the Honors Program will do ed to climb. I think to myself, that I am willing to climb so much to improve not only “How can I ever do that?” whatever peak that Bowie, how we learn, but also who we Palmer, and Bruhn decide to Then I remember that I are. It will be difficult, but we throw at us, and I know that was the one who chose to atsimply need to be able to see the all of you will be right there tempt this. We all did. Why? light at the end of the tunnel, the beside me. Thanks for starting Was it because we sought an stars shining in the night sky. this climb with me. additional challenge in our uniBut it’s a long tunnel that versity experience? Were we See you all at the summit! we face. The Honors Program is looking for a chance to prove nothing if not challenging. The ourselves? Did we have the length and difficulty of the read-