well i'm thinking about transferring there (well i most likely am) but i was just wondering what you thought about it? do you like it? or yeah, just because i'd rather an actual person tell me about the school than the website and the administration, you know? just a little more real, haha
haha yeah totally! well ok. i'm actually going there this spring of 2015. i was on medical leave for a long while cuz of my depression. so here's the thing.
if you're a freshman you'll live in the dorms. if you're 21+ you can live in outside of campus. personally i'll be living in an apartment. pretty rad.
ok. community is big to us. like OMG. we're such a small school that like everyone knows everyone. even if you never talk to someone during your entire stay there, you can still run into them 4x in one freakin day. we're big on community. we all love and know each other.
chapel. it's mandatory 55 times out of the year to go. you have like 87 times to go so if you go everyday, you can get them knocked out. it only lasts 25 mins or so but if you're a christ-believer, it's not so bad, if you aren't... get ready for a nice 25 min nap. do i like chapel? eh. it's not so bad. i get amped up every FRIDAY CUZ OMG FRIDAYS ARE SO GOOD. we sing real loud and it's a lot of fun.
we're not kidding when we say we're christ-centered. you can ask your professor to pray with/for you any time. we pray before class. when class ends. before we eat. before peeing. i swear. praying happens all the time.
i like it. i do. i love ACU. i feel at home when i'm there.
but i won't lie. i feel extremely isolated at times. for 3 main reasons:
2. i'm not upper middle class
3. i don't have all the fancy things the rest do
at times ACU is referred to as "the bubble". nothing bad happens at ACU. theft is a little uncommon but when it does happen, it's reported and news spreads fast. you can get so caught up with college life that you forget there's an entire world out there.
missions. omg. so many mission kids. wanting to go on missions. like. fuck. people think they're the shit cuz they stayed in Africa for 2 months helping kids get clean water. they serve their time with a rich man's remorse as if saying "i'm so sorry i'm rich but here i'm donating my time for you" and then leave. they've seen the world because they can pay for it, but it's seldom that someone has a worldview.
professors though, are by far the best people i've met ever in my college career. these people genuinely care about you. say you have the flu and you email your professor, she'll wish you well. your friends will call you. people come by. people can pray for you. if you don't email your professor, he/she will email you trying to check up on you. your professors are always there for you. i have had a lot of professors give me their personal cell phone numbers saying that if anything comes up, to call them. seriously. that's why i love ACU.
there's a place in ACU called The Rocks (don't know if it still exists) where we smoked cigarettes and talked for hours in the freezing cold. it was THE best place to be for me. there you'll find the best of people dying to get away from the ACU bubble. it can get a little stuffy in the bubble.
you'll meet the best friends of your life at college. i've met mine in ACU. i'm going back and i'm scared and nervous because i need to make new friends. but the best advice i can give you is pray about it and listen to the small still voice that is the Holy Spirit.
personally i tell you OMG PLEASE COME TO ACU WOULDN'T IT BE SO FUCKIN COOL IF WE MET AND WERE FRIENDS IRL OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
haha ok. that is all. please ask me more questions if you want! <3
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