Hello, my name is Alice. I am currently a junior at Suffolk University. I am majoring in general sociology and minoring in government, focusing on politics, law, and the courts.

I am originally from Chicago, Illinois. I’m a city girl born and raised, so when choosing a college I knew I wanted a city school. However, I also knew I wanted small classrooms. I did not want to be a face in a sea of three hundred. I wanted interaction, conversation, and debate. I wanted to know my professor. The final aspect I was looking for in a school was diversity. My high school was EXTREMELY diverse. There were over 100 dialects of languages spoken at my high school as first languages. So, attending an all white, all American school was not an option for me. I needed a school that provided me with cultural options. So, I searched through schools all throughout the country and stumbled upon Suffolk. It appeared to have everything I was looking for, a city, small classrooms, and diversity. So, I visited and not only was Suffolk more than I imagined, so was Boston. It was the first college I had seen, where I actually felt at home.

It was not until I arrived at Suffolk that I realized how much I would love it here, everything from classrooms, to interactions with professors, to the extracurricular activities, to the city itself. There is a wealth of opportunities to succeed both in the class and outside. All of my professors have made vested interests into my classroom performance and my future, always offering help and references. All of the professors I have encountered genuinely care about the success of each one of their students. Not one person can remain nameless or faceless. Suffolk is not a place for any student who wants to disappear into the crowd. There are also several options afforded to succeed outside of the classroom. I myself took part in both program council and resident community council. Both groups plan events for around campus, resident community council.  Both groups introduced me to staff and students alike. I was able to build event planning and personal skills. Apart from there always being something to do, Suffolk’s prime location in the city also granted me the option for an internship at the Statehouse. That was one of the best experiences of my college career, and it was an experience no other school could have granted me, based on location alone. There are tons of cultural options around the city that as a student and a young adult to keep anyone interested. Everything including: museums, sports, music, movies, shows, clubs, etc. I cannot say enough about how amazing it has been to amerce myself in such a thriving city at a pivotal point in my life. I have learned lessons here that I never would have learned at a traditional campus. Choosing Suffolk is a choice I would never change.

If there is one piece of advice I could give to everyone looking for a school is to go with your gut. Yes, choosing a college is a major choice, but it is a choice that has options. If it is the wrong choice it can be changed. Search through a lot of schools find out what you don’t want as much as what you do want. Visit anywhere you are even considering. Then go where your gut is telling you. Go where you are comfortable, where you can actually see yourself living. Don’t just choose a place that would be nice for a weekend. Choosing a college is a decision for you and nobody else.

After attending Suffolk University I plan to take a year off while I search and apply to law schools. While I am not one hundred percent positive on what I want to make my future career I know I want to play some part in family law. I would like to pay most of my attention to the children involved in family courts. I plan to take the year off so I can have the time to hopefully make as good a choice for my law school as I did for my undergrad, and who knows maybe I will end up back at Suffolk Law.