Brooke Hudsmith

They told me to pick somewhere that I felt at home and where I would be able to have as many opportunities as possible.

It offered a close knit community and a place where I could see myself for the next 4 years. I felt at home and I still keep in touch with the people who gave me my tour and my admissions counselor.

It's an overall combination of the students, faculty and staff. It is seeing your friends across campus and yelling at them and not feeling self conscious. It is staying in the library studying until they kick you out then moving to the Jackson Hall computer lab with everyone else who hasn't completed their assignments. It's meeting your friends in the café and staying there for a long time. It's being rivals on the intramural field and going to get an ICEE in Randle's with an opponent afterward. It is long nights spent working on FYE projects and so much more. It's the friendships.

Everyone knows each other and genuinely likes one another…at most schools people only know people in their mjor or grade and at centenary some of my best friends are 2 years older and younger than me.

They are some of your best friends and mentors who you can go to with anything. They want to share your victories with you.

Someone who is well rounded…they don't have to have the best grades but as long as they give it their all that is their best!

I think it was probably self-motivation. Professors tend to motivate you a lot and meet with you if they think you may need some help.

Biology 101 with Dr. Scott Chirhart

Explore all of the buildings and play capture the flag around campus.

Everything from chicken-nugget night to waking up early to meet friends before class.