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“The nursing program is a challenging program for a good reason. The Department of Nursing helped me feel empowered to take on this challenge.”

"This major has helped me in many ways. And it's helped me help others. I’m forever grateful for that. It made me realize some things about how I acted and how other people acted, and to be respectful of everyone’s behaviors. We’re all human and everyone works differently. It’s a good program to understand how to work with other people.”

"When I transferred to UL Lafayette, it was the first adult decision that I made on my own and I knew I had made the right decision."

“I realized with chemical engineering, there so many different fields that you can be involved in. It has a lot of problem-solving aspects to it, and it's really challenging, which is why I've stuck with it.”

“I really want to write. I’ve been drawn to theater. I want to write plays and maybe move from there to writing for the screen. With all these streaming services, they have a huge demand for original content, and if that’s not an opening for writers, I don’t know what is.”

“Ragin’ Cajun culture empowered me to be tenacious, challenge the status quo, and celebrate specificity like queer spaces and Cajun heritage. I believe these qualities are inherent to great advertising professionals.”

“I am a proud UL Lafayette graduate and often tell others about my affection and appreciation for the education I received at the University. Those were times that I will always fondly remember and feel honored to be a part of UL Lafayette’s long, outstanding legacy.”

“I had the rare and great opportunity to oversee the design and fabrication of a new, $14 million, 6,000-square-foot permanent exhibition.”

“The nursing program does a great job preparing us for reality. Nursing is not an easy job and it’s not always pretty, so I love how challenging the program is and feel as though this prepares us for the future.”

“Fortune 500 companies hire theatre majors because of their ability to think creatively and come up with creative solutions to problems. No matter what you end up doing, being a theatre major gives you a leg up because it teaches you how to think creatively.”