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<\/p>\nJust like every college student, every 18-year-old hates the question: \u201cSo, what do you want to do with your life?\u201d Well, I was the same way. As a 17-year-old senior in high school, I really didn\u2019t know what I wanted to do or how I was going to get there once I decided what I wanted to do. I had some plans, but those plans changed; changed like the days from one to the next. And it isn\u2019t until one hot summer Wednesday afternoon that my decision would know where I was meant to be \u2013 Grove City College.<\/p>\n
Like any typical high schooler thinking they knew what they wanted, I was the same way. All throughout high school right up until my Junior year, I had my heart set on attending Valley Forge Christian College (now The University of Valley Forge) to major in Music Performance. However, once I toured and saw how far away it was from home (six hours \u2013 located close to Philadelphia), and when I realized that Music Performance wasn\u2019t any sort of \u201ccareer\u201d goal, my gears quickly shifted away from that.<\/p>\n
Once I had no game plan, my mom stepped in to help me (thank goodness!). She suggested that I look into majoring in Dance at Point Park University. I\u2019ve danced for about 19 years, so I knew that it was something I loved, and maybe that would be the path to take! The summer of my junior year of high school, my parents enrolled me at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. However, after a few classes, I realized that maybe that route wasn\u2019t for me either. As much as I loved dance, the environment that I was in stripped everything that I loved about dance away. It was more about the competition and less about celebrating and enjoying dance for the art that it is. In other words, it just wasn\u2019t for me.<\/p>\n
At a loss for what to do about me seemingly having no game plan to move forward from high school, I began to ask God where he wanted me to do with my life. After all, He\u2019s the one with all the answers, right? I didn\u2019t really know where to look at this point, until I heard of some people in my class looking into Grove City College. To be quite honest with you, I had no clue that Grove City College existed, which is why I proceeded to ask \u201cwhy do you want to attend college at the outlets?\u201d Silly me. Well, one Wednesday afternoon, Grove City College was about to become a lot more to me than just some \u201coutlets\u201d \u2013 and little did I know that it would soon become my home for the next four years.<\/p>\n
As I toured Grove City College for the very first time, I felt a peace and a comfort that this was to be my place of study for the next few years. Upon the conclusion of that tour, both of my parents would also echo that same feeling. I didn\u2019t know what I was looking for until I found Grove City College, and it all came into place on that day.<\/p>\n
I took a leap of faith and applied only<\/em> to Grove City College, and I ended up getting accepted. I took that acceptance as a clear sign that this is where God wanted me, and I\u2019m so blessed to have been able to attend such a great college.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been richly blessed throughout my time here at Grove City College. I\u2019ve taken upon a variety of leadership roles, administrative positions, and committees in my time here. I\u2019ve met some amazing people and have built spectacular and life-long relationships that have brought true blessing in my life.<\/p>\n So, I encourage you, no matter who you are or where you are, I encourage you and charge you to seek the Lord in everything that you do. I really wasn\u2019t kidding when I said that He had all the answers \u2013 all you have to do is ask. Luke 11:9 says: \u201cAsk and it will be given to you, seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.\u201d If you look at the first letter of each of those verbs, it spells a familiar word to us all, and what God wants us to do \u2013 ask him. That\u2019s the only way we\u2019ll hear. Seek first His kingdom, and all blessing will be yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just like every college student, every 18-year-old hates the question: \u201cSo, what do you want to do with your life?\u201d Well, I was the same way. As a 17-year-old senior in high school, I really didn\u2019t know what I wanted to do or how I was going to get there once I decided what I wanted to do. I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":3521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life","category-student-stories"],"yoast_head":"\r\n