Stories at DePaul - Overview

In this phase we are simply collecting true stories from the lives of our students, either inside, or outside, DePaul. These do not have to be profound, but might simply capture some moment, or series of related moments, in time that were meaningful to you.

Stories from the heart
Sample stories
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Here are some guidelines and suggestions:

• What are the stories that reflect what is important to you? These are good candidates for this corpus of stories.
• Humorous, sad, or heroic stories, and so forth, are encouraged, as are stories about work or home that highlight experiences others might not have exposure to.
• Submissions can be either anonymous, or named. If you wish your name attached, include an email address so we can verify the contents. In any case, we request that you change the names of others (and note this) unless it is absolutely appropriate not to.
• If you wish to send on a story about someone else that reflects something about your own cultural contribution to DePaul this is fine as well, as long as you strongly believe this to be a true story.
• More than one submission is not only fine, but encouraged.
• Because of our limited resources we request that you refrain from including legally suspect or otherwise questionable material.
• This is intended as a collection of TRUE stories reflecting the lives of the DePaul community. Since we will not be verifying this please be kind and refrain from artistic license.

Focus on something interesting that you have done, or that happened to you. The idea is not that these must be earth-shaking events, but rather that they reflect the wide diversity in how people spend their work, and home, hours.

Because these stories are not so commonly known, we are particularly interested in hearing from students with unusual cultural backgrounds, or unusual jobs. However, do not take this to mean that we would not like to hear from all our students, and faculty, since everyone has a story to tell!