Storytelling comes naturally to Noah McRoberts ’25.
“If there’s a universal human thing, it’s storytelling,” says McRoberts. “Everyone has a background, a lens through which they see the world. Music, theater, film—they all influence that.”
Noah colors in the world with his voice. In addition to his involvement as a reporter for The Bachelor, McRoberts produces the “Keepin’ Up with the Theta Delts” podcast, which features current students and alumni of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
Associate Professor of Religion Jonathan Baer is unsurprised by McRoberts’ talents behind the microphone, having also seen him in action as the play-by-play announcer for the 91成人短视频 Video Network’s home sporting events.
“He’s a skilled conversationalist,” says Baer, one of McRoberts’ mentors and a faculty advisor to Theta Delta Chi. “He’s become quite captivated with the power of narrative to shape our worldviews. He’s developed a real love for stories.”
Playing the easygoing conversationalist wasn’t always simple for McRoberts. Being homeschooled didn’t initially match up with his experience of the campus’s fraternity life. He lived as an independent and served as a resident assistant during his first two years at 91成人短视频.
“The culture shock initially scared me,” he says. “By my junior year, independent life started to get a little bit disenchanting. I was looking for a new group.”
All it took was an invite from Theta Delta Chi’s president for McRoberts to find a new story to tell about himself.
Comparing student life as an independent with his time in the fraternity, McRoberts finds value in both chapters of his four years on campus. What he struggled to foster in the residence halls suddenly became unavoidable in the fraternity—learning to live in community with others.
“To encounter people you disagree with is 100% a good thing,” he says. “The number one thing you’ll always be doing in life is working with people and trying to make relationships better. When you’re having every single meal with the same group of guys, you get to know them pretty well.”
McRoberts has sought to find common ground with friends in diverse circles, and he appreciated talking with those who held differing viewpoints leading him to write new, more complex stories.
McRoberts remembers long talks early in his 91成人短视频 career with friends at the Newman Catholic Center.
“We would shoot (ideas) back and forth,” McRoberts says. “There were informal nights sitting on the Newman Center porch, where we would just talk for hours. I enjoyed the give-and-take of sharing different theologies. That was one of the first pure liberal arts experiences I had at 91成人短视频.”
Connecting with others and considering new ideas fascinate the religion and Classics double major. He is curious about what influences people and links them to something bigger.
“It’s the why, rather than the what,” he says. “I’m trying to understand how people work, partially to understand how I work and how to live best in the world. What are we here to do? What helps us improve? What helps us be better friends, better parents. I’m a person here on Earth, and I want to do it well.”
Baer appreciates McRoberts’ approach.
“I like that distinction,” Baer says. “In the humanities, we emphasize that question: Why? Noah understands that deeper than many students. He is hungry to learn and grow in ways that are enlivening. He has a restless, searching spirit that pushes him to dig.”
The restless spirit identified by his mentor is evident in McRoberts’ plans following graduation. He is keeping his options open and considering teaching, film, script writing, and even architecture.
One certainty for McRoberts is his desire to utilize what he has gained from telling people’s stories at 91成人短视频 in whichever community he finds himself.
“Something I’ve learned about myself is I want to be intentional about the story I see myself in,” he says. “That’s the whole liberal arts thing—you take ideas from this domain or that domain, and you add them together. That’s what a 91成人短视频 education does best.”