Pensacola Christian College

Date: May 31 2003
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
pcc is the type of place for sheltered children who are afraid to think and make personal and moral choices based on their own convictions and beliefs. i dont have a problem with most of the rules, even though i hate being told what to do constantly. i believe the worst thing about the college are the other students who are constantly looking to write-up other students. for instance, this past year in my prayer-group there was a freshman who was nice enough, a little on the weird side, who was instructed by the administration to stand in the foyer of the crown center and write-up couples who (God forbid) touched so that they could get socialed. he wasn't paid to do this, it was just his 'christian service'. pcc is a college of over 4000 students. yet, there is no internet at all on the campus. (for a fee, international students can use the schools e-mail with up to five addresses) basic rights such as being able to leave campus to go to the store are revoked when you reach 75 demerits (I've only done that once)and the right to talk with members of the opposite sex is taken away when you commit some sort of sexual sin (ie even talking to a girl in the library)

i could go on for days about all the crap that goes on at pcc. (a special thanks to all my friends who've put up with it for the last 4 weeks) but the fact is the administration cares more about the testimony of the school then the students. every rule can be linked to having a good 'testimony'; but after working off campus and talking to people in the community, pcc doesn't have a good testimony. the college (and students) are seen as stuck-up snobs who are too holy for everyone else. sometimes I wonder how a school of 4000 christians can have such a small spiritual influance on a city. students are not allowed to work at local churches (campus church is not a real churhc by the way) and our witness is almost non-existant. overall pcc is doctrinaly sound, but that is the only positive thing a can say about it. Im a jr. missions major