My favorite thing about Stonehill

I'm not sure why it took me three years to realize this, although perhaps that's how this sort of thing works. While I was giving a (fantastic) tour on Friday, I was talking about the chapel and how we love to do service here, and how no one's really going to get in your way as far as religion goes. And then I realized that this is pretty much true across everything here. This community is incredibly supportive of everything that people do well, whatever it may be. If you want to volunteer your time with Into the Streets, or other forms of service, we're all behind you on that. If your thing is academics, and you do all of this fantastic work in your field, that's awesome too. If you help an athletic team achieve success, we'll come out and cheer you on. Whether it's any of these things, or SGA, student leadership...you'll have support. Anything that you do well will be praised, and you won't be asked why you aren't doing other things. I get the sense that we're okay with athletes doing their thing, because that's what they do. If all you do is volunteer, then that's cool, because that's what you do. Do what you do well, and you will have the support of the entire community. Whatever your cup of tea is, no one's going to tell you that it's right or wrong. And I think that the best part about Stonehill is that it absolutely creates and facilitates an environment where all of this can happen - there are incredible opportunities here, and plenty of ways where you can find out exactly what it is you do. So there you have it. We are the best at letting you do what you do, because everyone is doing something to give back to the community that treats us so well as students.

A beautiful campus never hurt anyone, either.