Saints of Marymount

Jeidy Luperon

By: Noelle Larino

“I would say that it’s another world. College back home in the Dominican Republic is totally different. It doesn’t really have to be dramatic for me to notice a difference. Small things such as we don’t live in dorms back home, you commute to every college. The classroom experience, it’s really different. You don’t get the opportunity to have office hours with professors or group studies with other classmates. There is no space to study. If you want to study, you have to go to your house and do your own thing. We don’t have internet; you have to buy it and it’s really expensive, only a few people have it so you need to borrow it from them. That means that we don’t have Wi-Fi on campus, we don’t have any of that. You would never send emails to your professors about your stuff, you need to figure that out on your own. With academic integrity, sometimes you can just copy and paste from the internet and nobody will ask you ‘Hey where did you find this?’ As long as you have the information, professors don’t care. That’s something different that I learned here. Community wise, you don’t really get to know people. You just come to your classroom and just go. There are not that many opportunities for you to get to know people from your school. You don’t have Welcome Back Party or Halloween Fest or PIM. You don’t get any of that, it doesn’t really exist. You don’t get that college experience that you get here at Marymount. The living, community, and faith experience, we don’t have any of those experiences back home.”