A Jesuit education calls forth the application of ideas. So it's both a compelling education, asking folks to understand what's morally doable and should be done. And taking the time to really identify clearly your unique gifts, and it allows you to understand how your gifts and talents can be used to really engage the most important issues of our time. And they're able to apply what they're learning in the classroom, but allow that learning to really form them as a person and really expand their imagination and their creative energies that allows them to come out a far more well rounded person with a greater vision and perspective on the world.

When I think the college experience, I think the job of the college experience is to really make you a well rounded individual. And service is one of the things that can help you do that. We have a number of different service trips here at St. Joe's. The one I'm most heavily involved with is the Appalachian Experience or Apex. And the service we do really depends on what kind of site we go to. My freshman year I went to Guyan Valley, West Virginia, where we were basically re-insulating a home that a family was living in. And we got to know the family over the course of the week and learn a completely different way of life in Appalachia. By broadening your worldview through service, by meeting people with all different walks of life, the Jesuit education allows you to take more and learn more about who you are as an individual to be able to serve and then that reflecting back on your college experience, which then reflects into your everyday life post-college experience.