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.
Experience: Join a mentorship program, take on a student leadership role, play in club or intramural sports, join a Wellness Center support group
Reflect: Remember a moment when you embraced care for the whole person (whether for yourself, another person, or a community of people). What was the impact of your effort, and what did you learn from it?
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.
Experience: Volunteer with Loyola4Chicago, take a service-learning course, join Labre Ministry, serve through Sorority and Fraternity Life
Reflect: 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?
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.
Experience: Join a Christian Life Community, go on a Campus Ministry retreat, explore a vocation with a Career Community, work with a spiritual director
Reflect: Looking back over this past semester, can you recall an experience that filled you with hope? What does that hope teach you about your life’s purpose?
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.
Experience: Participate in research or internships, get an on-campus job, find alumni mentors on LoyolaLinked, complete your academic capstone
Reflect: Reflect on an experience of really putting in the work to expand your knowledge on some critical topic. What results came from the effort?
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.
Experience: Study abroad at the John Felice Rome Center, get involved in campus sustainability initiatives, participate in research with a global focus, join a cultural or religious student organization
Reflect: 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?
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?
THERE ARE MANY MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCES TO EXPLORE ON YOUR UNIQUE RAMBLER JOURNEY
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.
Experience: Join a mentorship program, take on a student leadership role, play in club or intramural sports, join a Wellness Center support group
Reflect: Remember a moment when you embraced care for the whole person (whether for yourself, another person, or a community of people). What was the impact of your effort, and what did you learn from it?
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.
Experience: Volunteer with Loyola4Chicago, take a service-learning course, join Labre Ministry, serve through Sorority and Fraternity Life
Reflect: 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?
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.
Experience: Join a Christian Life Community, go on a Campus Ministry retreat, explore a vocation with a Career Community, work with a spiritual director
Reflect: Looking back over this past semester, can you recall an experience that filled you with hope? What does that hope teach you about your life’s purpose?
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.
Experience: Participate in research or internships, get an on-campus job, find alumni mentors on LoyolaLinked, complete your academic capstone
Reflect: Reflect on an experience of really putting in the work to expand your knowledge on some critical topic. What results came from the effort?
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.
Experience: Study abroad at the John Felice Rome Center, get involved in campus sustainability initiatives, participate in research with a global focus, join a cultural or religious student organization
Reflect: 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?