While Loyola may not seem like anything all that special to someone passing by, deciding to attend Loyola will be the best decision you make over your four years here. It's some people's top choice schools, and some people who just end up here because they got the most financial aid. Whatever reason you ended up here, you will never regret it.

Loyola may not be a massive party school with 30,000 students; it’s a community of 4,000 students who care deeply for one another.

We may not have been established in the 1600s, but it’s the beautiful architecture built in 1852 that still stands, which catches your eye from the moment you first step on campus and every day you grow to love more and more.

While we may not have teams that win every single sporting game or match, it’s our devoted fans attending sporting who make events all worth it. It's the athletes who show their school pride as they compete with the Loyola name on their jerseys. While both student-athletes putting time on the field, and putting time in their classes all Loyola students aim to be as successful as possible. The sky isn't the limit, your dreams can take you where you want to go from getting a 4.0 to winning a national championship.

It’s the hundreds of clubs on campus and club teams just waiting for new members to join, with just something for everyone on campus. From cooking around the world to French club, to an Investment Banking Society.

Loyola has some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet, from the evergreens to RAs, it’s the people on campus who truly care for your wellbeing. It’s the friendships you make with fellow students and the relationships you foster with professors and faculty on campus you’ll remember even after you graduate. It’s the interactions you have with people walking across campus, how great is it that you can’t walk across campus without knowing at least one person, and that truly is a wonderful thing.

It's the students you hear about on campus doing amazing things in the Baltimore community, from giving up their early morning to devote a few hours a week at Healthcare for the Homeless to those who are going in and tutoring students at Mother Seton who want nothing more than to be successful.

While your friends and family tell you Baltimore is dangerous, and every time you reassure your family that you are in fact safe and sound in Newman Towers, or where ever you may live on campus. And you believe the Baltimore pride may not grow on you, but it'll eventually just seep in and you'll start to embrace it slowly but surely.

In the end, its not only Loyola you are calling home but Baltimore as well, the unique and diverse city with countless adventures to embark on.

But in the end, it’s the students who are proud to call Loyola their second home, which makes Loyola the best decision I have made, ever since I took my first steps on campus as a high school senior. As a Massachusetts native with a countless amount of universities in reach, there is nowhere else I could or would see myself spending my four years of college.