Tag: Peer Assistants

  • SHINE: “Gustavus doesn’t let you passively experience it.”

    It’s funny now to think about how far down the list Gustavus was for Jenesis Tompkins ’23. The former high school class president, now a Gustavus admission counselor, recalls, “Gustavus had free busing from the Twin Cities. I was just going for the free stuff, to be honest.” She’d been touring East Coast and Chicago…

  • First-Year Highlights: Food, Friends, and Fun

    As the 2023-’24 school year comes to a close, two of the First-Year students from our “First Impressions of First-Year Gusties” article this past fall reflect on how their experiences and learnings have evolved throughout the year.  Chavy Ngov ‘27 Chavy reports that despite the initial shock he felt with the harder curriculum, increase in…