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Hello, my name is Austin Leduc. I'm a fourth year student here at Saint Paul University studying for my BA in Theology. What brought me here to Saint Paul's started back in 2018 when I was speaking with my high school chaplain looking for

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different places to study for my degree and Saint Paul's really captured my mind understanding that the university was a very humanistic and open approach to studies and to academics. So I ended up coming to Saint Paul's University for a "Come

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and View" student for the day session and just being in the classroom and seeing the atmosphere that was here. Seeing the students interact with the professor as well with each other was truly something that I feel that I could be heavily

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involved in and feel like I have value to my contribution here and to truly contribute to academics as well as to for my own growth and development. So I ended up applying to the university and got admitted back

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in 2019 where I started my studies here. Just being in class with small classroom sizes helped a lot to allow myself to truly learn, especially having sometimes a difficulty to, you know, feel not like just another person, but feeling like I have

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value as a person here. And studying here greatly helped that a lot and helped to advance my education and to help me learn new things and to take different approaches to my studies. By discussing with

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people with various backgrounds from all over the world truly helped to broaden my knowledge and to broaden my understandings of various different topics studying here in theology at the university.

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There's great academic staff who's helped me along my journey, not only for my own personal development or academics, but the whole roundness of my life. So once I'm done studying here at Saint Paul's, I'm truly hoping to

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eventually come back. However, the knowledge that has been given to me from the professors here, as well as my classmates and the friends I've made along the way. It's truly helped me to take a new approach to the way I view

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things and to the way that I not only do academic work, but how to interact with each other, how to integrate what I've learned to society, and to contribute to making true change in the world. At the university, being the face of change has truly

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inspired myself to want to take that approach to further work that I do. To help to contribute, to be the face of change for society as well as helping others to make the small changes and the large

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changes that they can. The university has truly helps to equip me with that and has helped me greatly to take new approaches to the way that I view things in the world.