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http://www.gobeyondthebrochure.com/Fi... - Visiting a campus is one of the only ways that a prospective student can come to know their future college, but certain lessons only come with time and experience. If I could redo my undergraduate career at St. Bonaventure University knowing everything that I do now, I would be thankful to have these insights before I began Mt. Irenaeus is a Franciscan retreat facility in the foothills of West Clarksville, just over a half hour from campus. Commonly nicknamed “The Mountain,” Mt. Irenaeus offers regular overnight trips away for St. Bonaventure students to take a break from the overwhelming demands of academic life. With its robust acres of forest and meadows, several active gardens, well-furnished wooden cabins and meditative labyrinth, Mt. Irenaeus is the perfect place to take that break. Although The Mountain is a religious retreat center, secular students such as myself take just as much away from its warmly inclusive discussions and religious services. Students who held off on visiting The Mountain until their upperclassmen years will lament missing out on campfires, cookouts, simplicity, and silence. In spite of its claims of being a small liberal arts school, the only academic majors that receive adequate treatment are Business, Journalism and the Sciences. CLAR courses (a rough equivalent to general education courses), humanities courses, and just about anything that does not fit under these three labels are segregated to Plassmann Hall, a brick-shaped building from 1959 that bakes in the summer and freezes in the winter. Many classrooms are equipped with mismatched chairs the kind with desktops built into them that would look more at home in an elementary school. The professors are not much better off.