What are you thankful for?
By Megan Kinney// Staff Writer
High Point University is a place filled with thankful students who feel extraordinarily blessed to be a part of the HPU family. There is so much in life to be thankful for, and as Thanksgiving approaches, students come to reflect on the question, “What are you thankful for?”
Your families are the ones who have been there from the start, and will be there until the end. They guide you through life and shape you to become the person you are. “I am really thankful for my family,” Logan Carter said. “They are responsible for who I am. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be blessed with all the opportunities I have today.”
College life is all about community, friendship and connections. Once a student builds that, the opportunities to succeed are endless. “I am particularly thankful for the community of friends I have built here at High Point,” Kacey Ruben said. “I attribute that to the Media Fellows Program. I am very lucky to have 16 people who I can call my best friends, and who I can go to for anything.”
Life itself it taken advantage of every single day. “I am thankful that I can wake up every morning and breath oxygen, eat and have shelter,” Dan Burniston said. “People a lot of the time forget that these things are privileges, which sadly, many people have to pray, hope, or fight for in their lives.”
HPU is a university filled with endless windows of opportunity, so go out and get them. You are living in a community of extraordinary people. Simply remember to be thankful for family, friendship and opportunity.