remember in my first swim practice with the team at Saint Leo University, a senior swimmer told me, “Enjoy every second, because in a day you will be applying to jobs and leaving college,” and here I am, writing a piece of advice, looking for jobs, with an overwhelming uncertainty that I do not wish on any person.
Now that my time at Saint Leo is almost over, I reflect on everything that I have learned which I plan to take with me to the Bahamas where I will begin my professional career as a journalist and eventually become a novelist.
y implementing classes on social media literacy, students would gain analytical skills to be able to discern the truth on the internet or identify how the author’s personal biases could have influenced the information that they are receiving.
Although every incoming freshman class is “the biggest yet” at Saint Leo University, it’s important to remember the graduate of previous classes. Having weathered through COVID-19, the old Colleges and Honors program and a different university president, Saint Leo’s alumni have seen it all.
On April 18, students at Saint Leo’s University Main Campus enjoyed the company of many different animals during “Zooeyia,” an event sponsored by the College of Education and Social Services. From 11:30 am to 2:00 pm, attendees interacted with various animals located in different spots across campus.
The bill signed on Mar. 22 by Gov. Ron DeSantis is named the Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act in honor of the late Sen. Dorothy Hukill, who spent much of her career championing financial literacy in Florida schools. Florida joins ten other states that require high school students to undertake a financial literacy course before graduating.
Malaria is a parasitic disease transmitted through mosquito bites by mosquitoes that have been infected by a species of the malaria parasite. Malaria is prevalent in tropical and subtropical climates, most notably in the continent of Africa in the Sub-Saharan region. However, this disease is not only limited to such areas of the world.
On April 22, Sigma Tau Delta hosted a yard sale to support Ukrainian refugees in Poland. The week leading up to the event, students were encouraged to drop off gently used items such as books, glassware, and clothing. An art station was set up where students could decorate shirts and finger paint with the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag. The event’s profits will go towards the Red Cross and Wyższa Szkoła Humanitas, a Polish university dedicated to helping Ukrainian refugees. The Humanitas Foundation allocates funds for people escaping the war in Ukraine and seeking shelter within the university.
On April 7, Saint Leo University celebrated its annual Academic Excellence Day to honor and recognize the achievements of students on university campus.
Saint Leo University’s polish English Professor Agniezka Leesch helped connect Saint Leo’s English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta, to direct their yard sale contributions to Humanitas University in Sosnowiec, Poland.