Traditions

So, traditions here at Cottey make the school experience completely unique. I thought I knew what I was expecting with having traditions, I thought I knew what was going to happen at that as we're fun and silly, but it is so much more than that the entire student body gets involved. You are specialized as a freshman, it's, it's a way of saying, "Hey, we want you here, you are welcomed here, we're going to celebrate you and you're going to absolutely have an amazing time here."

The connection element that the traditions bring is really important to our student experience, because it helps them find their own little communities here on campus. So being a small campus, they have some of that already built in their classes and in their suite life. But the traditions community brings a whole nother community of these students who are looking for that deep love of Cottey. And those connection points with both their peers here currently, and creating those connections with those that they can go to Sonic runs with and out to Walmart, and things like that after tradition.

So traditions at Cottey is something that the entire student body gets together. It doesn't matter if you're a sports person, if you're a theater person, if you are into tech or sciences, everyone comes out to do traditions. So as musical theater person, I spent a lot of time in the theater. And I'm so wrapped up my job, I don't see other people but at traditions, I see everybody and I get to see them. We all get to hang out and have fun and it's such a great time.

If I could say one thing to prospective students about traditions, it would be just to give it a try. They are kind of unique. They bring a really interesting and different element to your college experience. And while that can seem intimidating in some ways, and it can feel a little silly at first, everyone out there is interested in doing those same things and everyone is going to join in on the silly and it's going to feel so fun, and it's going to bring you all those new connections. So my number one please not even suggestion is just please get out there and give it a shot.