Rambler Journey
A GUIDE TOYOUR RAMBLER JOURNEY
THIS IS YOUR ROADMAP to Loyola’s shared traditions and the unique experiences that lie ahead of you on your path to graduation. Explore activities, opportunities, and resources to help you build community, develop knowledge and skills, enhance your well-being, create memories, and engage in Ignatian reflection to make the most of your time at Loyola — the path is yours to choose.
ROOTED IN THE JESUIT TRADITION
The five ideals described below will guide you through your Rambler journey. As you gain knowledge, develop skills, and learn through your experiences at Loyola, you will come to live and exemplify these ideals.
A TOOL FROM THE JESUIT TRADITION that you can draw upon to fuel your Loyola journey is the practice of reflecting on your experiences. Below, we’ve listed a few examples of how you can live out each ideal and questions to guide your reflection.
Care for the Whole Person
Guided by The Student Promise, LUC students and alumni exhibit cura personalis (care for the whole person) for themselves and others. We recognize the uniqueness and dignity of each person, with specific needs, strengths, challenges, identities, and experiences. We are empathetic, compassionate, loving, and open-minded.
Reflection Prompt: Remember an experience when you embraced care for the whole person, whether for yourself, another person, or a community of people. What actions did you take? What was the impact of your effort, and what did you learn from it?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Join a mentorship program with the Center for Student Inclusion and Belonging, take on a student leadership role to care for others, play in club or intramural sports, join a Wellness Center support group
Commit to Service, Social Justice, and Solidarity
LUC students and alumni are committed to the service of humanity and care for our common home. In learning and action, Ramblers pursue justice and stand in solidarity with those whose dignity is most threatened.
Reflection Prompts: Describe a time when you demonstrated a commitment to service, social justice, and/or solidarity. What actions did you take, what impact did you make, and what did you learn?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Volunteer with Loyola4Chicago, take a service-learning course, join Labre Ministry, serve through Sorority and Fraternity Life
Discern Guided by Faith
LUC students and alumni seek God in all things. Ramblers are self-aware and self-reflective, grounded in hope, discerning their life’s purpose and meaning by attending to their real-life experience. In their decision-making, Ramblers employ practical wisdom.
Reflection Prompts: How has your process of decision-making been influenced by your faith, spirituality, or worldview? How has intentional reflection helped you deepen your understanding of your feelings and actions, experiences you have had, values you hold? What hopes do you have for your own future, and for the future of the communities to whom you belong? How are these hopes related to your life’s purpose?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Join a faith-based student organization, go on a Campus Ministry retreat, explore a vocation with a Career Community, work with a spiritual director
Expand Knowledge
LUC students and alumni are intellectually humble while they engage in critical inquiry, research, purposeful learning, and professional development. Applying what they learn and striving for continuous improvement, Ramblers are dedicated to the pursuit of excellence.
Reflection Prompts: Reflect upon how you have intentionally expanded your knowledge, within the classroom or beyond, during your Loyola journey so far. Where and how did you engage in this pursuit, and what results came from the effort?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Participate in research or internships, get an on-campus job, build a mentoring relationship with alumni mentors on LoyolaLinked, complete an academic capstone (if relevant for your major)
Thrive in a Global Community
LUC students and alumni work collaboratively and imaginatively to understand and address complex societal issues in an ever-changing technological and interconnected world.
Reflection Prompts: Describe how you have worked to understand yourself as part of a global community. What new or deepened skills, perspectives, and dispositions evolved from this self-understanding? How can this understanding inform action to address complex issues in the world?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Study abroad at the John Felice Rome Center, get involved in campus sustainability initiatives, participate in research with a global focus, join a cultural student organization
YOUR RAMBLER ROADMAP
While there are academic milestones that you need to achieve for your degree, like choosing a major and completing Core Curriculum requirements, the rest of your Loyola experience is yours to create. Below is a roadmap of what your journey could include, but every Rambler’s path is unique. Where will your journey take you?
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These experiences will help you learn, grow, and thrive at Loyola and beyond. Each experience can support your development in one or more of the Loyola ideals—and it is your path to chart.
SUPPORT ALONG YOUR JOURNEY
As you embark on the path ahead, there are many partners on campus help you navigate challenges and explore all that Loyola has to offer.
REFLECT ON YOUR JOURNEY
As you encounter significant experiences that exemplify the Loyola ideals throughout your time here, any and all Ramblers can practice the Ignatian practice of Examen to reflect on their experiences and submit brief on LUCommunity to earn honorary incentives, including lapel pins and a stole to wear at graduation.
THIS IS YOUR ROADMAP to Loyola’s shared traditions and the unique experiences that lie ahead of you on your path to graduation. Explore activities, opportunities, and resources to help you build community, develop knowledge and skills, enhance your well-being, create memories, and engage in Ignatian reflection to make the most of your time at Loyola — the path is yours to choose.
A TOOL FROM THE JESUIT TRADITION that you can draw upon to fuel your Loyola journey is the practice of reflecting on your experiences. Below, we’ve listed a few examples of how you can live out each ideal and questions to guide your reflection.
Care for the Whole Person
Guided by The Student Promise, LUC students and alumni exhibit cura personalis (care for the whole person) for themselves and others. We recognize the uniqueness and dignity of each person, with specific needs, strengths, challenges, identities, and experiences. We are empathetic, compassionate, loving, and open-minded.
Reflection Prompt: Remember an experience when you embraced care for the whole person, whether for yourself, another person, or a community of people. What actions did you take? What was the impact of your effort, and what did you learn from it?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Join a mentorship program with the Center for Student Inclusion and Belonging, take on a student leadership role to care for others, play in club or intramural sports, join a Wellness Center support group
Commit to Service, Social Justice, and Solidarity
LUC students and alumni are committed to the service of humanity and care for our common home. In learning and action, Ramblers pursue justice and stand in solidarity with those whose dignity is most threatened.
Reflection Prompts: Describe a time when you demonstrated a commitment to service, social justice, and/or solidarity. What actions did you take, what impact did you make, and what did you learn?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Volunteer with Loyola4Chicago, take a service-learning course, join Labre Ministry, serve through Sorority and Fraternity Life
Discern Guided by Faith
LUC students and alumni seek God in all things. Ramblers are self-aware and self-reflective, grounded in hope, discerning their life’s purpose and meaning by attending to their real-life experience. In their decision-making, Ramblers employ practical wisdom.
Reflection Prompts: How has your process of decision-making been influenced by your faith, spirituality, or worldview? How has intentional reflection helped you deepen your understanding of your feelings and actions, experiences you have had, values you hold? What hopes do you have for your own future, and for the future of the communities to whom you belong? How are these hopes related to your life’s purpose?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Join a faith-based student organization, go on a Campus Ministry retreat, explore a vocation with a Career Community, work with a spiritual director
Expand Knowledge
LUC students and alumni are intellectually humble while they engage in critical inquiry, research, purposeful learning, and professional development. Applying what they learn and striving for continuous improvement, Ramblers are dedicated to the pursuit of excellence.
Reflection Prompts: Reflect upon how you have intentionally expanded your knowledge, within the classroom or beyond, during your Loyola journey so far. Where and how did you engage in this pursuit, and what results came from the effort?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Participate in research or internships, get an on-campus job, build a mentoring relationship with alumni mentors on LoyolaLinked, complete an academic capstone (if relevant for your major)
Thrive in a Global Community
LUC students and alumni work collaboratively and imaginatively to understand and address complex societal issues in an ever-changing technological and interconnected world.
Reflection Prompts: Describe how you have worked to understand yourself as part of a global community. What new or deepened skills, perspectives, and dispositions evolved from this self-understanding? How can this understanding inform action to address complex issues in the world?
Examples of Relevant Experiences: Study abroad at the John Felice Rome Center, get involved in campus sustainability initiatives, participate in research with a global focus, join a cultural student organization