In Their Own Words: What is your most grateful moment at the UI?

“Probably my first football game in the stands. We were cheering, and I was like, ‘You know what, this is it.’ I was thankful to be a part of the Hawkeye Nation, especially after we did The Wave.”

“I had a lot of moments: the first time I stepped on campus, going to class for my first time, going to my first football game.”

“I had a meeting with my adviser last spring, and he just told me to go for my dreams, my goals, my dream job, and stop worrying about fallbacks. He was so encouraging, and I knew I was meant to be here at that point and that I was in the right place.”

“The moment that I realized I was meant to be here was when Jerzy Rubach told me I got an answer correct in my History of the English Language course.”

“The moment I was grateful to be a University of Iowa student was when Professor H. Glenn Penny told me, ‘The fool learns from experience, the wise man learns from history.’”