Get your geek on
The gap between professors and students can be big. Elon University will help make them small. This is good because those relationships will be wildly rewarding now and throughout your life. Just ask the 30,000 students polled by Gallup and Purdue who were twice as likely to be happy in their lives and careers if they had a professor or staff member who took a personal interest in their intellectual development. This is great. Really great. But don’t miss out on the opportunity to build the same kind of relationships with your peers. In other words, let your geek flag fly. Because we all have a passionate geek inside us if we’re willing to admit it, and we are all are a heck of a lot more interesting when we connect our social lives with our intellectual ones and let our inner geeks out.