Bob Jones University

Date: Sep 18 2005
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
I will graduate from BJU in about 80 days. These three and 1/2 years will have been some of the hardest and worst of my life.

Good points: there are people here who love God. Those people are what make this school worth going too.

The faculty is (for the most part) very knowledgable about their subject matter.

The facilities are beautiful (outside buildings and classrooms).

Negatives:

The dorm rooms leave much to be desired- unless you enjoy (being forced to) room with at least three other people in a ten by twelve space). You can't bring much- because there is no room. And don't worry about trying to find an apartment- which is cheaper and more space- you have to live on campus unless you are living with relatives in town (helps them to supervise the students).

You have tons of required events which interfere with your studying and your sleeping (i.e. chapel, prayer group, artist series- which they've cut back on, vespers).

They require you to be on campus for sunday morning worship . . . slightly against the NT teachings.

They monitor every part of your life- check out to go off campus, say where you have been, checks on how many times a month you minister to others, checks on how often you attend night church (at one of the required and approved mammoth bastions of fundamentalism in the area), random "Dorm sweeps" where they (the dean of womens staff) go through everyone's rooms and all their stuff looking for "bad" music and other "uncheckable" stuff.

They preach personal standards. I don't have a problem keeping their rules- my issue starts when they start preaching that the Bible teaches these rules (about the only way to dress, the only music to listen too, the only type of church to attend, etc)

Go here if you want to be coached in "separation." Don't go here if you are looking to develop a lifestyle based on the "faith and love" found in Colossians 1. I'm desparately trying to understand that my works don't earn me God's favor- because this is what they teach (without meaning to, or even realizing this is what they are doing). If they find out that you disagree with something they believe is a "fundamental" of the faith- like separation- they will separate from you.

Oh, and btw- they block this site on their exclusive web server at school. You have to be off campus to access this.