College Admission at Loyola

This past week, one of the fraternities at Loyola (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) put on their annual philanthropy event, “Paddy Murphy Week”.  The week includes events such as penny wars (a competition between sororities), powderpuff football, Paddy’s Widow Pageant (a talent show between girls in different sororities) and St. Baldrick’s Day.  Any proceeds made from these [...]

One of the last events for Loyola University Chicago‘s Black History Month celebrations was Ebony Ball. On Friday, Feb. 22, the Black Cultural Center hosted this formal for the first time at Regents Hall in the Lewis Towers on our campus downtown. As vice president, I had to oversee the planning and facilitate tasks to [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkaEYVVkoE I am already getting close to finishing off my fifth week in the spring semester! Where has the year gone? With the organizations that I have been a part of, we have done a lot of work on Loyola University Chicago’s campus and off. In the video above, my African dance team, AfroDescent, performed [...]

Globe Med is a student-run organization that is a non-profit global medical relief program. They raise money and make trips to third world countries and offer free medical services to people who would not otherwise have the opportunity to receive health care. On Saturday night they held a benefit dinner that a group of my [...]

My name is Tanner Walters, and I am currently a Freshman, starting my second semester at Loyola! This blog is where I’ll be talking about my personal experience as a student at Loyola and as a new Chicagoan. A little about myself:  I am double-majoring in theatre and journalism (we’re not all biology majors, I [...]

One of the student organizations that I am involved with here at Loyola is UNICEF. 19,000 children die every day of preventable causes and UNICEF fights for this number to become zero. UNICEF has saved more young lives than any humanitarian organization in the world. Loyola’s chapter of UNICEF meets every Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. [...]

As I have mentioned before I am president of the brand new fraternity on campus Delta Sigma Phi. We stand behind many ideals but our big goal is to show the community what real men should look like! We are not okay with being typical. This season the men of Delta Sigma Phi are running [...]

It’s early September and that’s my favorite time in Chicago… that transition from summer to fall where the weather is not too hot, but still cool enough to wear shorts and sandals.  I am making the most out it, trying to get as much as I can in before it gets cold. Whether it be basking [...]

I am excited to be back at Loyola University Chicago and blogging my experiences once again! I cannot believe that I am a junior. The past two year have flown by so fast! My summer was definitely a busy one. I had the opportunity to intern at a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. called Words [...]

It was painful, but I did it. I survived the first week of classes! The first few days back from Summer break are always the hardest to get through. After an amazing, relaxing Summer spent sunbathing and swimming, sitting in class is the last thing I look forward to. It is the inevitable end to [...]