Hoya hospitality

Hoya Saxa! Hoya Saxa! The chant echoes throughout the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., as Georgetown students and fans cheer for their college basketball team.

Georgetown University was founded in 1789 and is the nation’s oldest Catholic university.

2009 alumnus Timothy Tsai chose to attend Georgetown University and leave the Golden State because he was impressed by its attitude toward education.

Another contributing factor Tsai considered when weighing his options was how Georgetown, a small school, could give him more attention as opposed to other, bigger, schools. UC Berkeley, for example, has 25,530 undergraduates while Georgetown has only 7,433 undergraduates.

Tsai said that the School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the college’s most renowned undergraduate program.

“There are eight majors and they are all internationally related. Like international econ, international history, international politics and international affairs,” said Tsai.

Tsai likes Georgetown because of the diversity of people there. Many students from all around the globe travel to Georgetown for their education.

“People claim that it’s really homogeneous just because a lot of the students here are from the Northeast. But what I really like is that everyone here has a really interesting story,” Tsai said. “People here are bright kids and they come from a lot of different backgrounds.”

Tsai added many students who go to universities in California like Berkeley or UC Davis do engineering, while the majors at Georgetown are often related to more diverse fields.

“People here are a lot more [diverse] in their majors. My friend is a linguistics major, I’m a philosophy major,” Tsai said.

Tsai confesses that Georgetown has really changed his perspective on the different backgrounds that everyone comes from.

“At Georgetown I’ve grown much more proud and aware of my own culture,” Tsai said.