With Thanksgiving right around the corner, Lancers have plenty to be grateful for. For example, we can all be grateful that Thanksgiving break is mere days away. Plus, the debate and election are over, and we have returned to the normal Lancer life. Students around campus are grateful for a wide variety of things.
One: We can be grateful for our family, friends and support networks.
Longwood students can take a little time to appreciate their friends and family, both back home and at Longwood.
“I'm thankful for my family, my faith and my wonderful friends, of course,” said Madison Lewis, a sophomore liberal arts major.
Jordan Berkompas, a freshman math major, is grateful for her friends and her professors’ commitment.
“I am grateful for the loving awesome friends I’ve made here at Longwood. I’m also thankful for the professors, how kind they are and how much they care about our success,” she said.
Two: We can be grateful for our academic and professional opportunities.
“I’m also thankful for the amazing internship I was able to land and for the library staying open until midnight on weekdays,” said Adonel Grubb, a freshmen environmental sciences major.
Three: We can be grateful for the Longwood experience. We can express gratitude for the things that make Longwood home.
“I'm also thankful for so many ‘Longwood’ things, like professors who drop everything to help me with last-minute crises, my fellow Lancers who make me feel nothing but proud of the community I chose,” said Lewis. “All my little families I've found through this university, the opportunities I've had to travel and learn in new ways that I've only had because of my involvements at LU and the opportunity to give tours to prospective students who might end up having all of this to be thankful for themselves one day.”
We can be grateful for the opportunities to be citizens leaders and grow as people.
“I'm so very grateful to be a citizen scholar at Longwood each and every passing day,” Lewis commented.
Junior communication studies major Marci Logsdon said, “I'm grateful to be in at a university that has allowed me so many amazing opportunities to work with other students and meet people that I know will be in my life forever. Coming to Longwood led (me) in a direction I never imagined myself in as it's showed me a passion for student affairs that I didn't know I have, and because I came to this school I know what I want to do for the rest of my life.”
Four: We can be appreciative of the little things in life.
Lancers can stop and appreciate the little things like communal lounges and seeing friends in D-hall. We can take a moment for small stuff.
“’I’m thankful for the STU, for open until midnight,” Berkompas said.
It’s small, but sometimes it’s the little things that matter.
As a community, we can and should utilize the opportunity to think about what we are thankful for this Thanksgiving.
Lancers have a lot to be thankful for, but here are four things in particular.
