I heart CSU

I heart Chicago State University!!!!!

And I want the world to know!


I heart Chicago State University and others may not but they should. Being raised in a small home on the other side of the tracks from Chicago State University, I feel that I have an imitate relationship with the state school. When I was at the tender age of five my mother decided to further her education and began her journey in the halls of the education building. During the several years it took her to obtain a bachelors and a graduate degree, I had the pleasure of spending many hours in the Reynolds Recreation Center being supervised by caring primary education majors and gracing some classrooms trying desperately to understand what was being discussed.

When my mother graduated she transitioned into the Chicago Public Schools seamlessly and went on to have a successful career until she retired a few years ago. In the last months of my high school career I made the incorrect decision to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I went to U of I and had the misguided fortune to face some rude realizations. In high school I was in a special program tailored to prepare students for rigorous collegiate programs and I became accustomed  to small classrooms and encouraging attention the teachers gave their students. I realized while sitting in a lecture hall with 2,000 other students that having a teacher only know me by a number and taking a calculus test with 10,000 students in drafty auditoriums was not something I wanted to pay for. So when that bill of 6,000 came for the spring semester this student began packing and went home.

After some debate and worry, I marched myself across those tracks and signed up for Chicago State University's fall semester. I thought that attending here I would not go through any of the emotions and events that any other college students have ever experience. Chicago State offers lots of work, challenging classes, stress, projects, workshops, seminars, and any other challenge you can think of. Speaking with several other students I always hear how the other schools that they attended never seemed to challenge them like CSU. My mother always says that when people who are in the know hear that you graduated from CSU they know you worked and know your stuff.

At no other school have I been taught by professors who care so much and actually create more work for themselves in order to give their students all that they need. It is now after three years at Chicago State and working towards the completion of my bachelors of science in chemistry with a minor in writing that I find my-self completely inamoured with the students, teachers, and curriculum of Chicago State. I firmly believe that everyone should come here and see just what love and blessings wait for you here. Of course this school has room for improvement but not as much as all the other schools in this state! But seriously what school's tuition actually goes down? What school actually has small classes and not some random lying statistic? What school has students and teachers spending hours and hours to perfect the process of education? What school is such a diamond in the rough? What school offers every club or sport that you could think of on a idealistic campus in the middle of a world-class city?

The school that answers all those questions is none other than Chicago State University!