This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Xavier chapter.
It’s no secret that college is stressful. It is so easy to get overwhelmed with exams, homework, and papers, all while trying to stay healthy, financially stable, and happy. Sometimes we get so caught up in the hard parts of college, and forget to appreciate all the amazing parts. We are all especially blessed to attend a university as amazing as Xavier, where there are so many things to be thankful for. Here are 50 things XU students can be thankful for (although this list could go on forever).
- Xavier Basketball
- March Madness (especially making it to the Elite Eight last year)
- Dana’s
- Pig Roast
- Dogs on campus
- Cafsgiving
- Scholarships that make it financially possible to attend XU
- Seeing Bill Murray casually in Cintas
- XU Volleyball games
- Caf cookies
- Having two mascots
- NOT being UC
- Cool professors that actually care about you and know your name
- Boat dance
- Steve and the sandwich line in the caf
- Father B
- Free food on the yard
- Pong Madness
- Xavier sunsets
- Manresa
- Cheap concert tickets
- Coffee Emporium
- Chris Mack
- So many free t-shirts that you can barely fit them in your closet
- Camp-outs for big games
- Intense intramural sports
- Stones
- XavierFest
- So many study abroad opportunities
- Father Graham
- Community Action Day
- JP Macura doing the gator chomp to the Wisconsin student section
- Senior week
- The mentor program
- The CFJ
- Graeter’s
- Cincinnati
- The Thursday night Mount Adams bus
- Throwing newspaper confetti when the first basket is made of a home game
- Late night Mass in Bellarmine
- Short walks to class
- Over the Rhine
- A Xavier Christmas
- Saturday morning breakfast sandwiches in the caf
- DTA shows
- Final Fridays
- The fireplace in Gallagher in the winter
- Xavier’s Jesuit heritage
- Always running into a friend on your way to class
- The XU family…All for One, One for All