Why We're Awesome

One of my very first blog posts was about why I chose ONU. One of the biggest reasons I’m at ONU is because of the atmosphere that is unique to this campus. From the beautiful surroundings to the small student-teacher ratio, this university is unique. This couldn’t have been proven to me more strongly than when I was at PRSSA National Conference.

I know I just wrote about conference in my last post but this is a completely different topic. While in San Francisco I got to see firsthand how lucky I am to be a part of the ONU public relations program. At conference I met a lot of PR nerds from all over the country and naturally we talked about our chapters and advisors and what department our programs are in. After talking with the other people I noticed something, and it was that the relationship between the PR students and the advisors is nowhere near as strong at other chapters as it is at ONU. It made me feel special knowing that our chapter has an amazing relationship with our advisors.

For example, some of the students at conference barely knew their advisor, while our chapter had a potluck dinner at one of our advisor’s house the night before conference! I would bet that an extremely low percentage of chapters have done something like that.

I know sometimes I have taken for granted how lucky I am to be a part of an amazing program, but after realizing just how awesome the relationship between the students and advisors are I won’t be making that mistake ever again. 

Honored,

Jake