Lillian Robertson has always had a special relationship with her Grandmother, who she calls “Nana”. She would’ve never guessed that this relationship would lead her to choosing to go to school ten hours away from home and finding her passion in studying Communications. Robertson is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She went to visit her Grandma living in St.Louis, Missouri her Junior year of highschool, and they decided for a fun activity to take a tour of Saint Louis University’s campus. She described that during the tour she found, “their values were values that I wanted to have going into adulthood.” These values include valuing the greater good of all over individual success.
Robertson’s Grandma was extremely excited when she chose to go to SLU because she now had family in the city. Robertson began her path at SLU studying for a degree in the business school and participating on SLU’s club rowing team. She said that her freshman year left her with, “a bad taste in my mouth,” and she was not studying what she really loved. Inspired by her Grandma, who was a third grade English teacher, she switched her major to communications. In these new classes she met a classmate who was editor at SLU for the blog site “Her Campus” who encouraged Robertson to join their staff. Roberston said Her Campus is a, “fun and relatively easy way to become a published writer.”.
Robertson is planning to continue studying communications and is thinking about going on to Law School. While in St. Louis, Robertson still sees her Grandma on the weekends where she sometimes goes to her Grandma’s house or her Grandma comes into the city for the weekend. She is enjoying her new major and is excited to continue this study.
Robertson practicing with her rowing team at Saint Louis University her freshman year.
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I really liked this article and learning more about Lilly. The only thing I would critique is maybe a little bit more of an explanation as to why she did not enjoy business school. Also is she still on the rowing team? Did having her grandma near by help with homesickness or did that still occur? These were just some questions that came to my head. Overall I really liked this and thought it flowed nicely.
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Hey, I liked the blog article a lot! I think that you could have given a bit more information on a few different things within the article like why she is thinking about law school and what other schools did she think about going to. I also think you could have broken up your graphs so that they were a bit smaller and spread out more. But it was a fun article with insightful information!
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I really liked this! I thought you did a great job of continuing to talk about her Grandma throughout the story after first introducing her. I would have liked a bit more in-depth information about her freshman year & why it wasn’t the best, & how her Grandma being a teacher inspired her to change to Communications.
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