Your ideas, suggestions, photos, and letters to the editor are important!
Please talk with any J-Lab staff member or email hilltopnews@corban.edu.
J-Lab Advisers
Mrs. Christena Brooks
J-Lab Adviser
Mrs. Ellen Kersey
J-Lab Co-Adviser
J-Lab Editors
Shawnee Randolph
Hilltop News Editor
Chelsea Vincent
Hilltop Weekly Big Board Editor
Danni Strom
Hilltop Yearbook Editor
Stephanie Hallman
Hilltop Online Editor
The living-experience of a lifetime
By Eli Conlee
J-Lab Staff Writer
What?! They make you live on campus until you’re a junior?
That question has been asked of me more times than I can count on my hands and feet; that is, if I’m wearing mittens and have my shoes on. But really, what Corban student hasn’t mentioned that to his or her friends back home and received a similar answer?
Now we’ve all heard the arguments: “We’re adults... We should be encouraged to save money...”
I have no bone to pick with those arguments, but let’s think about the benefits of living at Corban. You can wake up four-and-a-half minutes before class and still make it on time; you don’t have to clean the bathrooms (unless you live in Aagard); you can skip working out by walking up to Davidson 10 times; and you rarely miss the chance to eat cereal for all three meals.
Sure, the decision to keep underclassmen on campus was made a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but the reasons, just like Luke, Han, and Darth, are not out-dated. The purpose for keeping us here goes far beyond the practical.
Think about it. Where else will you get the opportunity to be surrounded by Christians, to live not in dorms, but in communities.
Think about your friends. Were they made when you drove to their apartment, or were they made when you walked down the hall, upstairs or over to another dorm?
We need those communities, those close friendships, even if it’s only so we can find apartment-mates for next year.
Why miss out on the chance to be covered in pumpkin, have no-talent shows, or participate in “manly events?” Why skip out on life punctuated by snores from down the hall, loud lobbies filled with non-studious students, and some of the most wildly unique living experiences of your entire life?
