Four Years At Hanover
Congratulations! Your life as a college student is just beginning and the options for exploration at Hanover are almost endless.
- Challenge yourself by taking classes like Great Works where your professors team-teach several different disciplines in arts, literature, theology and philosophy. We call it learning "out of the box."
- Make new friends by joining a club, watching a game, or goofing off in "The Underground" or the "Shoebox" our student hangouts.
- Get your Hanover "Earning the View" shirt by completing our annual freshman hike from the Ohio River to campus.
- Expand your management skills at the college level by participating in Emerging Leaders, our leadership program for first year students.
- Pledge a sorority or fraternity and develop ties with other students that will last a lifetime.
You're into your second year and focusing on your career path. Discover who you are and what you want to create for yourself in the future.
- Concentrate on subjects of your interest and choose a major that plays to your strengths.
- Examine a culture outside of your own and find your favorite part of the world for further exploration.
- Join a Career Connections Program and continue to build your real world experience while still in school.
- Make your move for business or teaching by applying for the Center for Business Preparation or the Teacher Certification programs.
- Travel and learn about a subject that interests you through the Intensive Inquiry Program.
- Participate in a service experience to give back to your community.
As a junior, you're broadening your horizons beyond Hanover and will start traveling throughout the world.
- Journey to distant places like Australia, Belgium, Turkey, Spain or Germany with your favorite professor during May term.
- Distinguish yourself among other college students by taking your classroom knowledge and applying it in a foreign country or toward your first real internship.
- Join a Career Connections Program and continue to bulk up that real world experience while still in school.
- Work with the Career Center on a draft of your resume and plan the next two years to make it even more solid.
Your last year at Hanover means it's time for you to prepare for your new life, wherever it takes you.
- Integrate your classroom study into the Capstone Seminar that allows you to publish your own research on a determined topic of choice.
- Work with the Career Connections Program and the Career Center to fine-tune your resume or your application to graduate school and participate in mock interviews.
- Take in the beauty of the campus while it's still right outside your door.
- Enjoy your friends and get those last midnight runs to Taco Bell and Hinkle's in while you can.