Fantastic! I’m so glad you’re enjoying everything so far. I’d be worried, too, that everyone would rub their niceness off on me, LOL! I love how involved your school is and how many different activities you’re doing this week.
I can’t think of how to say it in a clever way. I am glad you have met so many unannoyingly nice people. It makes me think of my grandparents, and several other choice people I have been blessed to meet.
It is amazing to see the fruit of Jesus Christ in others.
At my own orientation, I’ve often wondered how your experience might be different. I am surprised to read that so many things are the same despite the two schools being almost as opposite theologically as you could possibly get. Except letting the women enroll as MDivs (which goes without saying here), everything else is striking similar: the people are way nicer than at BYU, there are tons of student activities and get togethers, the faculty-student relationships are close, and there is a robust spouses’ community—which I am really grateful for.
How do your teachers and colleagues react to Paul’s being Mormon.
Paul tried to avoid mentioning he was Mormon, which resulted in him overhearing some very interesting things as people conversed with me about Mormons assuming my husband was evangelical. But for the most part people were friendly about it; I’ve only heard two rather negative comments about Mormons, and Paul was only present for one of them. He told the formation group he was Mormon, and I think some people were weirded out by it, but no one said anything rude to him about it.
He met Woodbridge while we were in line for lunch and did not say he was Mormon; later, when I discussed it with Woodbridge, he was really fascinated by it. He’ll see Paul again at the barbecue this weekend and I’m sure he’ll have plenty of questions for him. Woodbridge spent time in France and did his dissertation in French, and Paul served his mission in France, so I actually think they’ll get along pretty well.
BTW, I spoke with a person who was a classics major from another university, and he mentioned that he had heard that BYU has an “excellent” classics department. Our reputation precedes us!
“I’m not sure how a total bitch like me got into this school”
I don’t know why some of the women on these blogs are so down on themselves. I have noticed that women that say the B word about themselves are better at dealing with others due to their candidness.
Yesterday was interesting. I went to the Trinity Society of Women Lunch and wound up sitting at a table with the TEDS president, Craig Williford, who absolutely insists on being called “Craig.” (I explained to him that after BYU formalism, having to call professors and staff by their first names was kind of hard for me.) I also sat across from Perry Downs in the education department, who was way awesome. I mentioned being afraid that the niceness on campus would force me to stop being snarky and he was like, “Oh no, you can just consider snarkiness to be your spiritual gift.” YES! He has also adopted and served as a foster parent to a lot of children, and he gave me some information on how to plug Harley into the special education services here in Lake County. He’s a member of PCUSA and he also talked about how much he hopes the MDiv women go on to seek ordination. It made me sad that I’ll probably never have the chance to have classes from him.
But I sensed that the purpose of TSoW is to help keep female students from being discouraged by any hard-assed male headship advocates on campus, and I think that’s pretty cool.
Anyways, today is my first day of classes, so wish me luck.
sounds pretty interesting! i do like the looks of their PhD in Theology program – a friend of mine from AGTS is in their PhD in Intercultural studies program and another just works there – hie wife is children’s pastor at a church in the area.
Fantastic! I’m so glad you’re enjoying everything so far. I’d be worried, too, that everyone would rub their niceness off on me, LOL! I love how involved your school is and how many different activities you’re doing this week.
I can’t think of how to say it in a clever way. I am glad you have met so many unannoyingly nice people. It makes me think of my grandparents, and several other choice people I have been blessed to meet.
It is amazing to see the fruit of Jesus Christ in others.
At my own orientation, I’ve often wondered how your experience might be different. I am surprised to read that so many things are the same despite the two schools being almost as opposite theologically as you could possibly get. Except letting the women enroll as MDivs (which goes without saying here), everything else is striking similar: the people are way nicer than at BYU, there are tons of student activities and get togethers, the faculty-student relationships are close, and there is a robust spouses’ community—which I am really grateful for.
How do your teachers and colleagues react to Paul’s being Mormon.
Paul tried to avoid mentioning he was Mormon, which resulted in him overhearing some very interesting things as people conversed with me about Mormons assuming my husband was evangelical. But for the most part people were friendly about it; I’ve only heard two rather negative comments about Mormons, and Paul was only present for one of them. He told the formation group he was Mormon, and I think some people were weirded out by it, but no one said anything rude to him about it.
He met Woodbridge while we were in line for lunch and did not say he was Mormon; later, when I discussed it with Woodbridge, he was really fascinated by it. He’ll see Paul again at the barbecue this weekend and I’m sure he’ll have plenty of questions for him. Woodbridge spent time in France and did his dissertation in French, and Paul served his mission in France, so I actually think they’ll get along pretty well.
BTW, I spoke with a person who was a classics major from another university, and he mentioned that he had heard that BYU has an “excellent” classics department. Our reputation precedes us!
I’ve heard similar things about BYU’s classics programs.
So you all moved to Illinois. BTW, you’re still the greatest Jack.
Wow, this sounds like terrific fun. I’m envious. I’m so glad you’re jumping in with both feet. Enjoy the whole experience.
(wrote the BYU classics grad…)
“I’m not sure how a total bitch like me got into this school”
I don’t know why some of the women on these blogs are so down on themselves. I have noticed that women that say the B word about themselves are better at dealing with others due to their candidness.
Yesterday was interesting. I went to the Trinity Society of Women Lunch and wound up sitting at a table with the TEDS president, Craig Williford, who absolutely insists on being called “Craig.” (I explained to him that after BYU formalism, having to call professors and staff by their first names was kind of hard for me.) I also sat across from Perry Downs in the education department, who was way awesome. I mentioned being afraid that the niceness on campus would force me to stop being snarky and he was like, “Oh no, you can just consider snarkiness to be your spiritual gift.” YES! He has also adopted and served as a foster parent to a lot of children, and he gave me some information on how to plug Harley into the special education services here in Lake County. He’s a member of PCUSA and he also talked about how much he hopes the MDiv women go on to seek ordination. It made me sad that I’ll probably never have the chance to have classes from him.
But I sensed that the purpose of TSoW is to help keep female students from being discouraged by any hard-assed male headship advocates on campus, and I think that’s pretty cool.
Anyways, today is my first day of classes, so wish me luck.
Good luck, Jack!
I wish you good luck too!
sounds pretty interesting! i do like the looks of their PhD in Theology program – a friend of mine from AGTS is in their PhD in Intercultural studies program and another just works there – hie wife is children’s pastor at a church in the area.