Katelyn Mitchell: WRD 110, Fall 2022

 My research question was about how being involved in on-campus ministries help you to transfer to college. I can develop a persuasive argument in this by including the opposite bias of people who do not believe that on campus ministries can affect you. I plan to interview people who are and are not involved in on campus ministries. I can further research into scientific background of on campus ministries in relation to the academics of students. While talking, I need to understand that people in my audience may not be religious. Some may not believe in God, and some may even be of a different religion. 

  How does getting involved with campus ministries help students' mental health? How do campus ministries include everyone, even people who are not religious? 

  Make the Shift Leaving for college is a concept that comes with many mixed emotions. Most students in high school are eager to “just move out and leave already.” Other students may be sad to let go of all the things that come with high school like the student section at all the football and basketball games, dances like homecoming and prom, pep rallies, and their sporting events. The reality of college hits you on your first night away, all alone in your dorm, after your parents have said their goodbyes. Many incoming freshmen will start to feel overwhelmed and get homesick. Personally, I am very much a homebody and a momma’s girl. For weeks leading up to move-in day, I would get so anxious at the thought of having to leave the house that I grew up in for eighteen years of my life.  Organizations around campus have activities planned from the moment you open your eyes to start the day until two in the morning, allowing you to go back to your dorm and easily fall asleep. ...

 https://uky.campuslabs.com/engage/event/7683238  This article explains what Synergy is at CSF. Synergy is described as a place for students to come together and worship.  https://www.ukcsf.org/weekly/shift/  This article explains Shift in more depth. Shift is described as a place for freshman to be able to find their way to fit in during college. Shift helps freshmen figure out where they are able to let God fit into their new life at college.

  https://podcasts.ukcsf.org/podcast/the-blue-crew-boys-ep-5-our-first-interview/   I would like to also use an interview with people from shift to be able to show how people are personally affected by shift. I would like to use a picture like the one below to show all of the students coming together for shift. 

  https://www.mediafire.com/file/95xxmuae83n09dk/CNAE.m4a/file   Around Valentine’s Day for the past six years, I have been called to the office in my middle and high school for a meeting. Usually getting called to the office meant trouble. As I hear my name getting called, everyone turns to look at me. I get nervous, even though I know why I am getting called. I had to miss class, my teachers would get mad I was leaving, and I always had to make up my work. I dreaded going to this meeting every year. I was not ready to start our three hour tennis practices in the freezing weather with a group of girls and guys that I was not close with. For the past six years, my team was a group of people who had one similar interest, tennis. I never talked to any of the players on the team, and often felt like an outsider. Why didn’t I just quit? I started playing with my two best friends in seventh grade and we promised each other we would make it to our senior night.  This year, my f...

       In the first recording I listened to about Jackie Robinson, the communities that we were hearing about were the baseball community, but also the African American community. Robinson was the first African American that joined Major League Baseball. He told about the challenges that he faced and how he had to get through them. I found most interesting the positivity and belief that Robinson had in society. He truly believes that if we work to make society good, then it will be good. I found this interesting because as a teenager today, people all around me are telling me that society is bad and that people of today’s world are bad. I have been told that there is no fixing our world, so it was refreshing to hear of people that have hopes.  https://thisibelieve.org/essay/16931/ The second story I listened to was about a mom who found her place in her children’s school life by bringing in juice boxes instead of trying to make sandwiches. The community being...