Many college students are bit by the travel bug, especially at Truman. Ranked 6th in the nation for having the most students study abroad, Truman students are known for going global and returning with lives forever enriched. Lisa Rubenthaler, a Truman senior and self proclaimed "travel addict," can attest to that.

While studying Spanish for a semester at the Catholic University in La Paris, Chile, Lisa was thrust into a world that stretched her street-smarts and challenged her to think more sharply about cultural and political issues.

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G-Dog, aka high school English teacher Andy Gensler, may not consider himself any better than his colleagues, but when he received the National Educator Award from the Milken Family Foundation, he was set apart as "The Best." To what does he owe his success? Why, Truman of course.

Props for the Profs: Truman showed me that when you have a student to faculty ratio like Truman does (when I went there it was 16:1), you really get to know your professors, and they really get to know you. I try to incorporate that same concept in my classroom.

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How long does it take for your new college to really feel like home? For some it takes a good year; and for others, a bit luckier, only a few months. But for Hope Slaby, a Truman senior, it only took a few days.

According to Hope, "I was surprised at how easy it was to feel at home at Truman. Because there was so much to do the first week, I had no time to be homesick. And by the end of my first week, I found myself unconsciously calling Truman home."

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Maybe you've gotten C's on three of your last five papers despite your deep research and careful outlining. Or maybe you bombed a mid-term final, even though you pulled an all-nighter pouring over flashcards. Or perhaps you just don't know if you should pursue your love of music or stay the course with biology—after all, you told your parents you were going to be a doctor.

At Truman, when academic problems like these arise, there's help: the Residential College Program, Truman's first living-learning community.

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