Elizabeth Heston loves Holy Cross. We mean she really loves Holy Cross. Ask her what she likes about the College, and she can go on for a long time. So when prospective students and their parents ask her what she likes about the institution as part of her tour guide duties, she offers up an anecdote instead.
“When I was making my decision about where to go to college, I met with one of the chaplains here at Holy Cross,” she tells groups of visitors. “I was still debating between schools and he asked me ‘Where do you see yourself studying? What team are you rooting for at a basketball game? What do you see when you are walking down the street to class?’
“I realized then that every path led me to Holy Cross. The academics and reputation are important, of course; but the people you meet, the connections you make with professors and administrators and the simple fact that when you smile at someone on the way to class they smile back all influenced my decision to go this school. I love this school, the classes I have taken, the friends I have made and the future it has shown me.”
An English and history double major, Heston will write about her life at Holy Cross in a blog that will run through commencement in May 2009.
As soon as she finishes up her finals, Heston will head abroad for the May Term in Luxembourg. She’ll spend the rest of her summer in her hometown of Northampton, where she will work as a children’s librarian at Forbes Library. She will also make road trips to see Holy Cross friends living in the area, and take a family trip to Disney World.
When she returns to campus for her final year, Heston plans to continue her involvement across campus — volunteering at Nativity School in Worcester through Student Programs for Urban Development, serving as a greeter at campus liturgies, taking prospective students on tours of the campus, participating in the Appalachia Service Project, and working at her campus job in the religious studies department. She will also be the treasurer of the Campus Activities Board.
All of these activities might help keep her mind off the fact that her college career is winding down. “Senior year will be difficult because everything will be ‘the last’ — the last Spring Weekend, the last finals week, the last Appalachia trip. It will be difficult to leave a school that has done nothing but exceed my expectations and has provided me with the best college experience I could have ever hoped for.”
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Student shares her love of Holy Cross in senior-year blog
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