Take your passion, and make it happen

I would like to create my first post by simply stating that I absolutely love Mercyhurst, I love what I am doing here and I love everything that has happened to me thus far. I know this sounds extremely cliche, but I feel like it was yesterday that I was a high school senior looking at college, and now suddenly, I am a JUNIOR in college?! How did that even happen? The end is actually near and in sight! However, before that end (graduation) gets here, I am doing everything that I love. I made the title of my blog "I'm here for a good time, not a long time." The reason for this is because it was just recently, when I realized that I'm now halfway done with college, that I'm not here at Mercyhurst for very long...therefore, why should I have an experience that is anything less than a blast?!
Ultimately, we're not in college for very long, so there's no reason to be anything but happy. This is where my post's title comes from...take your passion and make it happen. I have done exactly that throughout college so far, and this is what makes me happy.
But before I ramble for too too long, let's back up a bit and I'll tell you how the heck I ended up here!

I am from Erie, PA. I attended high school at Mercyhurst Preparatory School (directly up the hill from Mercyhurst College). All throughout senior year of high school I refused to even consider Mercyhurst as a college option. I thought I knew everything about Mercyhurst (because I had been in the chapel and the performing arts center...and of course that meant I knew "everything" haha I was so wrong). To make a long story short, my parents FORCED me on a tour which is where my stupid perception was washed away and I absolutely fell in love with Mercyhurst. Many people gave me crap about it and said that I was too much of a baby to go away from home...which is why I set out to prove not only to myself but to others that Mercyhurst is such an awesome school and there are so many opportunities to have a good college experience, even if the college is in your hometown.

Soooo once I got here, I decided to JUMP RIGHT IN! If there is any advice I could give to freshmen going into college, it's don't wait to do the things you want to do. Things aren't just going to fall into your lap, you have to find what you like (your passion) and go after it (make it happen)!

Now that I am a junior, the classes are a little/a lot harder, I have a million things going on, but I love every minute of it. When I look back at my college experience (which this blog will help me remember, along with facebook!), I will remember times of fun and excitement and times in which I was following my dreams and living my life exactly how I wanted to.

Stay tuned for more Mercyhurst excitement, through the eyes of ME!

Here's how I spent part of my summer! I worked as the Assistant Student Chair for the Summer Orientations and Welcome Week (basically we made sure that the freshmen and new students knew that they too made the right choice by choosing Mercyhurst!)