My Pursuit of Happiness

#17 for the Holy Cross Crusaders

Hello everyone and welcome to my admissions blog for the College of the Holy Cross. Hopefully you’ve read my bio and noticed that my name is not Bob Cousy and that I did not lead Holy Cross to 26 consecutive wins during the 1949-50 season.

However, my name is Ted Cullinane, and I am a first year student English major from East Greenwich, RI. Ever since I was accepted for early decision on my birthday (yes, that’s right) in early December of 2009, I had been awaiting attending Holy Cross. I applied early decision because Holy Cross had been my dream school since my freshman year of high school. Since then, I was constantly informed about the great things about the school from various alumni I knew as well as current students: “Great students, great professors, great campus, great community,” were among the commalities that seemed to sum up HC for me. 

All I had heard before coming to Holy Cross was that everyone at the school was happy. I did all my homework by spending hours memorizing the “Holy Cross” Princeton Review page like it was the Rosetta Stone. When I arrived at Holy Cross at the end of August, I wanted to prove the Princeton Review’s perception of Holy Cross’s happiness wrong (no “wrong” was not a typo, I’m an English major so I’m supposed to proofread my work at least 3 times…right?). I wanted to prove the Princeton Review wrong because I didn’t want to be attending a school where EVERYONE was constantly smiling and walking around smiling and giggling about abominable things like  thunderstorms and hurricanes.

There needed to be a happy medium for me (pun intended, excuse the humor this is only my first post). Of course I wanted to attend a school where I felt happy, safe, and comfortable but I also wanted to attend a competitive school where the students were focused and driven on success and receiving a degree. I wanted the professors to be tough enough to push me to achieve my potential, but at the same time not assigning too much work. But nobody’s perfect right?

The last two months I have spent at HC have been everything I hoped it would be. Great students, great professors, great campus, and a great community. Even my Statistics professor seems happy when he teaches our confused class about various summations, regression lines, and standard deviations for the first time. 

After two months spent on campus, I have realized that the Princeton Review‘s explanation about Holy Cross is correct. The Holy Cross community is happy, but not in the overt sense maybe one would see on Playhouse Disney, but over the last two months it is clear that students have constantly been pushing themselves, with the help of their professors in their respective classes, thus making all students’ along with my own pursuit of happiness obtainable.

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