“I just got my first serious paper back in college, a 13-page research paper for my writing class, and I got a perfect score. My professor told me I had one of the best research papers in the class. This research paper is essentially the equivalent of a final and determines if you pass the class or not. It reminded me of the essay I wrote for your class on Grey’s Elegy, and the feedback you gave me: Omit needless words.”

“If you look up a president or a famous person, it’s easy to find where they went to college. Where someone went to elementary and high school stops mattering once they go to college. But I think the most formative part of my education has probably already happened. In college and probably for the rest of my life, my decisions will be largely influenced by my time at St Monica Academy.”

“At first, I thought the motto of SMA, Faith, Reason, Virtue would be taught to me through the academics I studied, but I have found that it is through the people that surround the school that I have learned and come to believe in it.”