Category: Rosemary Cruse ’23

Picture this: It’s the morning of Thanksgiving, turkeys cooking, the TV is switching between the football game and the Macy’s parade, cousins running around the house, and you are cozied up on the couch. Who would willingly leave this environment ?! The answer… the ANGEL of a tour guide who decided to break away from…

During my time at Furman, I’ve found that I’ve been poured into by so many people and in so many aspects. I have incredible professors, advisors, friends, peers, and bosses who are constantly giving their time and resources to help me succeed. For me, it seems only fitting that I give back in some way…

With the admission decision season upon us, it’s easy to forget that stalking the mailman or refreshing your email 3000 times a minute to see if you got in, are not the only important things in life. I can say this because I was in your place almost exactly a year ago. I was frantically…

What has chanting, yelling, singing, and a bunch of girls in matching outfits? SORORITY RECRUITMENT!! From an outsiders point of view recruitment can seem a little intimidating so I thought why not breakdown my own experience to help it all seem less overwhelming!  Furman sets up their Greek Life formal recruitment to be in the…

Wow! It feels like just yesterday I was packing up my bedroom, driving seven hours, unpacking my bedroom, saying goodbye to my parents and hello to my new life as a college student. The first semester truly has flown by and now I’m sitting here reminiscing on all the memories made in such a short…

Ahhhh the holiday season… hot chocolate, ice-skating, thanksgiving, Christmas decorations, cozy sweaters, ABC’s 24 days to Christmas movie marathon, oh and FINALS!! If you’re anything like me, you get major test anxiety; making the holiday/Exam season more stressful than the mall parking lot on Black Friday! So to help myself, and all the others struggling…

I don’t know about y’all, but one factor I found to have great importance in the college decision process is the city in which the college or university resides. Now yes the city or town itself is important, but when I say city I guess what I am really meaning is the proximity in which…

83 days, 2 months & 22 days, 11 weeks & 6 days, 1,992 hours. Sounds like a long time right? This is exactly the amount of time has passed since I packed up my life and moved 7 hours away from home and to me it feels like its been maybe 25 minutes.  Even as…

I don’t know about y’all but I get bored… easily! And I’m no art major but I’d like to think of myself as somewhat creative and I’m always looking for new ways to spice up my dining hall experience.  The only problem is I’m also very much a creature of habit and am not ashamed…

We have officially made it through midterms! So you all know what that means… it’s time to sit back, breathe a little, and fall back into our finally established routines. As a freshman, settling into Furman came easily for me. I never was hit with the homesick plague (sorry mom!!) and I was able to quickly…