Shawn Lee '18

College of Arts & Sciences; School of Communication, Media and the Arts

BA, Media Studies

Undergraduate Involvement

Orientation Leaders/Transition Mentors
Various Positions, Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
President, Order of Omega Greek Honors Society
Vice President of Programming, Inter-Fraternity Council Executive Board
Lambda Pi Eta Communications Honors Society
Multimedia Intern, Division of Marketing & Communications, Sacred Heart University

Why’d You Choose SHU?

I chose SHU because I felt such a sincere and earnest sense of belonging. I found that I could be part of the community here at SHU and that the individualized learning experience could help me grow both as a student and as a person. My time here gave me the nurturing environment that I needed to grow and to learn; to make mistakes and to eventually, my own ego notwithstanding, find myself and what values and beliefs I personally hold. I echo the sentiments that many people feel when they first step on campus; the sense that our halls truly feel like home from the very beginning.

What do you do now?

I currently serve as an Assistant Director of Admissions at Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts, where I recruit students from all over the country, read applications, run the Emmanuel College Admissions Office’s social media campaigns, and am in charge of our multicultural recruitment initiatives.

Advice to Underrepresented SHU Students

So many students face pressure from those around them. The most critical of these pressures by far that I have seen in higher education is the idea that your time in college has to have a financial return; a notion that your education is not just for the betterment of an individual, or an appreciation of academia and the resources afforded to students to pursue higher learning but rather that you will live up to the investment that those paying for your education are putting into you. We are, albeit arguably, fortunate to live in a country where there is so much opportunity for every focus and field to yield some form of traditionally successful results; however, success can only truly be defined by you. Forge your own path.