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Michelle Byrnes
  • Undeclared
  • Class of 2019
  • Oakdale, NY

Michelle Byrnes Inducted into the Assumption College Honors Program

2015 Nov 16

Michelle Byrnes, a member of the class of 2019, was one of 79 new members inducted into the Assumption College Honors Program on Sunday, November 1, before an audience of administrators, faculty and families.

The Honors Program at Assumption College is a demanding, intensive curriculum that seeks to challenge each student to achieve his or her full potential within a supportive community of peers. Regardless of major, the Honors Program empowers students to challenge themselves and explore their passion with similarly motivated students. Students inducted into the Program are encouraged to select courses and projects that reflect their individual interests and to connect their classroom studies with experiences in the community.

"Getting the most out of ourselves means not settling for what we could do yesterday," Honors Program Director and Assumption College Professor Molly Flynn, Ph.D., shared with the students. "You are honors students: seek out challenges. It is more honorable to struggle through a difficult course than to breeze through an easy one. Our vocation is to help you develop the skills and habits of soul and mind you will need later on in order to more richly recognize and respond to the world, each in your own multifarious vocations."