{"id":2781,"date":"2016-12-07T13:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2016-12-07T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:13:42","slug":"home-sweet-grove-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/2016\/12\/07\/home-sweet-grove-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Home, Sweet Home at Grove City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">When you eat, sleep, work, and spend most of your time in one place, it becomes like home to you. Whether it\u2019s being able to walk around in your bare feet, or decorating a space that\u2019s all yours, we all have different ways to make a place \u201chome\u201d to us. Living with 3,000 other college aged people is such a crazy life, but we all share one place in common that becomes our \u201chome\u201d for 3-4 years. I spent the past few weeks asking people, \u201cWhat makes Grove City College home to you?\u201d and got so many great responses and stories. If you\u2019re wondering what it would be like to call Grove City College home, allow these students to explain their versions of \u201chome\u201d within our campus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Junior &#8211; Abby Hassinger<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cWhat makes GCC home for me is having a sense of family on campus. Making plans, spending quality time with people and feeling connected to life on campus helps GCC to become home. Decorating my room and putting my own stamp on it helps too.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Senior &#8211; Philip Dudt<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cI have lived in Grove City for about 13 years now. For the entire time that my family has lived here my dad has been a professor at Grove City College. I am very appreciative that I can be immersed in a place where Christians can be open about their faith and their worldview so that \u2018iron sharpens irons\u2019 so to speak.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0Senior &#8211; Bradley Warmhold<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cFor me, the professors, faculty, and students who show a genuine concern for my well-being and a desire to see me succeed makes me feel right at home.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Senior &#8211; Kyle Martin<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;The awesome people that I have gotten to know and the new people that I continue to meet makes Grove City feel like home to me.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Around this time of the year, another thing that students love about our campus is the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/IMG_4871.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2973 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/IMG_4871-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas tree\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/IMG_4871-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/IMG_4871-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/12\/IMG_4871.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Christmas decorations that are just about everywhere. Not only are their lights on the pine trees and wreaths outside, but there are over 7 Christmas trees in different buildings on campus &#8211; including the dining halls. When there are decorations, lights, and fire&#8217;s running in different buildings on campus, everything feels more like home. It makes you want to curl up with hot chocolate and actually enjoy studying. The effort that student leadership and staff exude to put up all these decorations is something that you definitely do not get on any other college campus, and is so unique to the &#8220;Grover&#8221; community.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Georgia',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">As for me, Grove City became home when I realized I was surrounded by amazing Christian people who were invested in me and helped me grow in my faith without feeling judged. Also making a dorm room a homey space helps as well, but overall Grove City College is a place we\u2019ve come to know and love, and have been able to proudly call it our home.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you eat, sleep, work, and spend most of your time in one place, it becomes like home to you. Whether it\u2019s being able to walk around in your bare feet, or decorating a space that\u2019s all yours, we all have different ways to make a place \u201chome\u201d to us. 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