Hillary Taylor

Even if this puts me in the minority, I’ll go ahead and say it: I love Furman University. I wouldn’t say that I love everything about this university. There are still some growing edges I would love to see in terms of civil discourse and diversity.

In my three years at Furman, I have taken a lot of humanities courses and tacked on a Poverty Studies concentration with my major. However, it seems like every time I step into a humanities course, people stare at me like a zoo animal. The reason? My psychology major.

Because I’m a ministry nerd, I’ve been reading a lot about religious pluralism. One pamphlet I’ve gathered from Clergy Beyond Borders contains a very pertinent quote from Rev. Dr. Diana Eck of Harvard University. In the pamphlet, she writes that in the world today, “our ignorance of one another will be increasingly costly.”

Welcome to college, where “transitional homelessness” is a new way of life! When I use the phrase “transitional homelessness,” I’m talking about the helter skelter lifestyle of college. You see, we’re at that perfect age of being independent enough to dive into the process of finding a home within our own skin.