If you’ve spent extended lengths of time contemplating how you’ll afford the next four or five – but hopefully not six years of your college life — you fall into an uncomfortably large category. Yet the simple idea that you have an opportunity to gain the unique experience of higher education places you into a catastrophically smaller category.
That experience will come with an undesirable price tag, indeed, but to put it simply and truthfully, you’ll get quite a bit of bang for your buck while you are a student at the University of Idaho. Aside from the holy grail — a gleaming diploma that confirms you’ve learned a thing or two during your time in Moscow — you’ll come away with priceless friendships and valuable lessons that can’t be had outside of a university setting.
While roaming the hallways and corridors of our esteemed campus, you’ll be surrounded by professors who are internationally renowned in their respective fields, and overzealous in their eagerness to pass along knowledge. You’ll come across administrators who make it their personal mission to meet your every need, and guide you along this intimidating path of higher education. Finally, you’ll cross paths with thousands of young adults, coming from various from various walks of life, who have chosen to participate in this crash course for many of the same reasons you have.
Those select individuals who have challenged themselves to take the next step of their academic life, are given a unique platform as soon as they step onto campus. Thousands of Vandal alumni have taken that platform and utilized it to influence the world around them. Now, you have the potential to do the same.
Make sure to take it one step at a time, and soak in everything that UI has to offer. What you accomplish in college isn’t necessarily defined by what you achieve within the confined walls of the Administration Building or the library.
UI offers extracurriculars that fit every lifestyle. Take in an exhilarating college football experience at the Kibbie Dome, absorb the soothing sounds of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and attend the annual Borah Symposium, where Nobel Peace Prize winners have made more than a few appearances at the marquee event.
If you take any lesson into your first year at the university, consider this one: You get out what you put in. With the countless experiences available at the University of Idaho, the price is right 100 percent of the time.
–TL