You have a story. Everyone does. It’s about where you come from, what you think about, what you value. It’s about your friends, your family, your language, your music, your school. It’s about your particular skills and interests, what you’ve learned so far in life, how you relate to the world and other people. Right now, you’re about to start a whole new chapter in your story.
You have options you want to explore, places you want to see, things you want to do, ideas you want to propose, a career you want to pursue. That’s one reason you’re planning to go to college—to get
going on that next chapter of your life, to become who you want to be.
Colleges and universities have stories, too. How they started, what traditions they maintain, the way they look, the students they serve, the things they offer academically and socially, the role they play in their communities, and the role they play in the generation of new knowledge.
Youngstown State University’s story is all those things. YSU is about outstanding academic
quality, diversity of people and programs, and broad access to opportunity. But it is, overall, a culmination of the stories of all the students who in the past 100 years graduated and went on to make a difference. Our students—while they are here and after they graduate—are what YSU is all about.
The students above have stories to share about how their time at YSU has helped shape who they are now and what they plan to do in the future. Perhaps you’ll decide, as they did, to make your success story part of the one called Youngstown State University.
