My Life at MU

Coming home

It is my goal to return to Methodist at least twice a year. Saturday, will mark my fall semester visit and I am elated. The weather is supposed to be a nice 70 degrees, the football team is playing Ferrum and I can't wait to see my friends again. It'll be good to be back around the collegiate football atmosphere. The fans, the food, the game, the competition thick in the air. It's going to be amazing, it is hard to even begin to describe the electricity in the air right before kick off. The cacophony is truly euphonious; the music blares, the pep band plays, and the murmur of the crowd ready to watch spectacle all in eager expectation. I spent the most memorable falls at Methodist playing before that same crowd, and I can't wait to experience a part of that again. - Rhyan

The Gospel of Methodist U

I have started going to my fiancee's church. It's a little church, way back in the woods with a weekly congregation of about 80 people or so. It's one of those churches where everyone knows everyone else, and their families, and their family's families. Sunday, I went to church, and as I walked in, one of the women of the church stopped me and told me that she had a picture of me. This struck me as odd because, why would she have a picture of me? And then she gave it to me, it was the Methodist viewbook. There I was laughing in class, and pushing my nose off to the side. After church, she asked me to do something I hadn't done in a long time. She asked me to tell her son all about Methodist. It was then I realized how very difficult it was to properly articulate everything I ever wanted to say about Methodist in a small amount of time. So, I proceeded to tell him all about the benefits of a liberal arts education, and the benefits of small class size, and just tell him the good news about Methodist. That was all I had time to tell him. Luckily, he is coming to visit the campus, as you all should. Methodist is really not something that can be explained, rather it is something that should be experienced. - Rhyan

Long time no see

People are used to seeing others in a certain environment. For example, you expect to see your teachers at school, your parents at home, and so on. Imagine how odd it is on the occassion that you run into your teachers outside of school, say at the mall. Imagine how even more uncomfortable it would be to run into your parents at the mall by happenstance. Recently, I ran into Clifton Bobbitt, a resident director at Methodist. While I was at Methodist I had the pleasure of working as an RA, never under Cliff directly, but as a member of the residence life staff at Methodist. It struck me as odd that seeing Cliff outside of Methodist didn't strike me as odd at all. It was actually rather comforting to see a friendly Methodist face again. I suppose the point I'm making is that the relationships you make, and you will make relationships, with the faculty and staff at Methodist are lasting and comfortable. The disconnect between student and superior is smaller at an institution such as Methodist and is something that should be valued. - Rhyan