Why am I enrolled in the Ignatius Loyola Class?

I studied in a Catholic school with Piarist priests in Ponce, Puerto Rico and I thought this was the only way priests could be involved in a school setting. Piarists have Saint Joseph Calasanz like Jesuits have Saint Ignatius of Loyola. It was for my sophomore year of high school that I moved to San Juan and changed from a school with Piarists priests to a school with Jesuit priests, the school was San Ignacio de Loyola (Saint Ignatius of Loyola). I noticed quite a difference after being in this new school in terms of the philosophy of the teachers and what it was to be a good person in this world. They kept mentioning these traits a person had to have over and over and they got engraved in my mind, be a man of faith, to be intellectually competent, to be able to discern, and to be a man of service. I found out how to apply these traits in my years in this school, but unlike my classmates, it took me a little longer to understand these traits.

I first went to Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola my sophomore year of high school. The school starts from seventh grade to senior year. My friends that have been in the school since seventh grade have had classes teaching them who is Ignatius, who are the Jesuits, and what do they stand for. It makes me feel like I really missed out because I graduated from this Jesuit school and I don’t have much knowledge of who Ignatius was or what he did. I am enrolled in this class because I feel that it is my responsibility to know who Ignatius was. I’m sure that how Piarists priests taught us how to live our life and be good people to society, Jesuits can do the same and I can grow in my faith and become a better person that can offer something to the world.