I think what students like most about our Honors College is that sense of community from walking in the pedestrian and seeing smiling faces, waving at all of my friends, to being able to chat with different professors and have them on kind of serve as a mentor.
We really see ourselves as a community of scholars. They're taking classes together from freshman year onward, working on theses together, and really having a sense of community as they go through this educational process...
...To actually write my own thesis and present it following graduation was something that really made the Honors College stick out to me.
We've had students working on some very topical issues in their theses. We had a nursing student writing about vaccine hesitancy among nurses. We had another student in business coming up with a business plan for a future bakery that they'd like to open.
We have chemistry and biology students in the lab, doing research with their faculty. Anad then of course, we have, you know, students in the humanities or in the archives, they're reading books and writing about authors or writing about historical events.
There's a lot of different perks that come with being an Honor student. One of the perks that I definitely use the most is that we get to register for classes early. Another perk that is just for Honors students is that we have a lot of different scholarships that are available. I myself have obtained three scholarships just with the Honors College.
We also have study abroad scholarships to support students studying abroad. We partner with the Center for Irish Research and Teaching we go to Wexford, Ireland, where Georgia Southern has a Global Learning Center. We've had engineers, biologists, business majors, it really all report that they had a fantastic time in Ireland of course, but a fantastic time learning about this, this mode of research.
