A Graduate's Advice for Surviving and Thriving at Pensacola Christian College
Recently I got an email asking for advice on meeting people and making friends as a new student at PCC, which was a bit exciting to answer, because I absolutely love stressing the importance of a freshman friend network. It can be a daunting task finding a friend group (especially if you’re an introvert like me, or if you don’t know anyone else attending), but here are five sure ways to build your freshman network at PCC:
As I’ve spent my time at Pensacola Christian College, I’ve learned there are two kinds of students: people who get stuff done, and people who complain that someone else should get stuff done.
Everyone wants to see progress and change for the better, and sometimes in a big Christian institution like PCC, change happens slowly or not at all, depending on what the change is and who’s in charge of it. Equally as unfortunate is that students in my generation would rather complain about this problem instead of actually going about resolving it.
And I should clarify: not all change is good, and not allĀ fast change is good. Just because somethingĀ you think should happen at PCC (or anywhere, in fact), doesn’t mean it’s good for the institution as a whole. However…
I’ve realized that there’s a systematic way to evoke change at PCC. If you have the drive, determination, and ambition to push through this system, then you can get (almost) everything you want out of PCC.
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Several of you have asked to read this full post. Originally I had it password protected as a draft and planned to add to it as I went along. Now that the semester is over, I found the time to finish it up and add to it.
Since the world is ending and all, people might be curious about how college life at Pensacola works amid the coronavirus pandemic.
To the best of my memory, here’s the current timeline of COVID-19 and its affect on the Pensacola Christian College community.
Hi! Guest-writer Crystal here. Iām that art major roommate Jenneth writes about. This past year I graduated with a degree in Studio Art with a built-in Graphic Design minor. You might be getting ready to start that journey as an art major at PCC; or perhaps youāre still going through your list of possible majors, and art is somewhere on that list; or maybe youāre just desperately gleaning for any information at all on studying at PCC because youāre anxious about your first year here. Regardless of your reasons, Iām here to give you three tips for succeeding as you launch your undergrad art student career.Ā
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First off, I want to apologize for not posting content during my unannounced hiatus during July. I did a lot of traveling over the past couple of weeks, including going to my first writers’ conference in St. Louis. (If there are any future professional writing majors reading this, definitely take a minute to check out Realm Makers, a Christian speculative fiction writers’ conference that isĀ out. of. this. world.)
But now with that out of the way, I’d like to talk to you all about something a little different than the typical PCC post. Although I get a ton of questions about the college and its campus, I also getĀ questions about the Pensacola area. What can you do? Are there fun places to go?
So here are top six best places that are unique to Pensacola you should totally check out.
Jenneth, here. Today I have a special kind of post I’m excited to share with you from Kaitlin Dilliplane, a Canadian PCC graduate and a close friend of mine. I asked her if she would be willing to write a quick blog post about being an international student and offer advice for incoming students who live outside the US.
Kaitlin graduated PCC with a professional writing degree in 2019 and now works as an in-house editor at Scribendi. She lives with her husband, Justin, whom she met freshman year at PCC.
Iām not your typical foreign student. I canāt tell you how many times my fellow PCC students and coworkers rolled their eyes and said, āYouāre a lame Canadian friend.ā In so many words, of course.Ā
Itās true though. In many ways, Iām an incredibly lame excuse for a foreigner residing as a student in one of Americaās states. While most of my elementary and high school years consisted of American homeschool curriculums and textbooks, I canāt say that my mind held very much historical or political information. Whether thatās because I was a horrible student and couldnāt remember facts or timelines for the life of me, or if itās because I just couldnāt care less about anything beyond my self-made orbit, thereās no turning back now. School is wasted on the young, they say.Ā
So, you can imagine when I stepped into the new world of Pensacola Christian College for my freshman year. I was almost 19, already older than most of my new peers–although that didnāt matter nearly as much as I like to think it did–and I didnāt know the first thing about the world. Itās hard enough being a new student in a new school, but being in a new country? Thatās hard, you guys. Even in the most minuscule ways, although itās different for everyone. But here are a couple things that I think will help a foreign student get used to going to Pensacola Christian College.
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When I was a freshman, I walked into my new dorm room terrified. I was an introvert who had never shared a room with anyone my entire life, and now I was going to have to share one withĀ three other girls for the next four months. Worst of all, I didn’t know how to act around my junior and senior roommates. Was I annoying? Inconsiderate? Overly apologetic? How could I get them to like me?
Freshman year, I roomed with my best friend and neither of us had any experience in being college students, but the three years following, we were the oldest and were able to train our own incoming freshmen.
Having been on both sides of the equation, I’m going to give youĀ three ways to make a good first impression to your older roommates.
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You and your best friend have both announced that you’ll be attending the same college together for the next four years. You’ve got it all planned out. Life will be a party. You’ll do lunch every day together, go to basketball games, grab coffee every Tuesday.
And the best part? You’ll share a room. It’s like one, massive sleepover, right?
PCC: Declassified 