“So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12) As the Psalmist reminds us, life is short. In the span of a lifetime (and eternity), four years come and go like a vapor, as do the opportunities that come in college. With high school now in your […]
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I’ve been where you’ve been. A difficult, life-changing decision ahead and you have no idea of where to go. Discerning God’s will can be difficult. Though God has a unique calling on each of our lives, He does not often speak to us through burning bushes like he did with Moses. With the help of […]
Both Emma and I traveled a far ways from home to attend college at Grove City. We hail from the gorgeous mountains of Colorado (Emma) and the always-sunny ocean side city of San Diego, California (Kate). So you can be sure that our homes were quite hard to leave. For me, I certainly wasn’t looking […]
One of the things I miss most about my college days is dorm life. Don’t get me wrong, I love having a place to call my own in the southern Georgia cotton fields surrounded by pecan orchards. But I don’t think I will ever experience community like I did those four years I spent residing […]
Photo Credit As you’ve perused college websites, guides or brochures, you have stumbled upon more statistics and numbers than you can count. One piece of advice I always give to students is: Don’t just accept a statistic for what it is. Care about the story that the statistic tells. Anyone can have a good statistic […]
“If you could live in any fictional land – Narnia, The Shire, etc. – where would you want to live?” A good friend asked me this question on my first night as a student at Grove City College. Though I’m sure he intended it only as a fun way to break the ice, it’s a […]
After attending a public high school, I knew there was an aspect of education I was missing. This aspect was something I didn’t find until I sat in on a class while visiting Grove City College. The development of all aspects of the person and not simply intellectual growth is what drove me to not […]
Choosing the right college is no cakewalk. When deciding the place where you will spend the next four years of your life, what are the most important factors to take into account? Culture? Cost? Size? Program? Is the food good?? The University of California- Los Angeles completed a study asking over 190,000 freshman students what […]
Before I became an Admissions Counselor at Grove City College in the summer of 2015, I served for close to 10 years as a full-time youth pastor. Over the years I had countless conversations surrounding some of the same questions and topics. One such question I was asked more times than I can count was […]