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Oftentimes many may wonder what the differences in students between liberal arts colleges and national universities in the U.S. and, which is better? The answer to the question depends on your personal interests, educational needs, career prospects and maybe where you live. Here at Belhaven University is a private Christian liberal arts university located in Jackson, Mississippi. Already with its location and Belhaven being a Christian university, it brings it a lot of diversity within students. I will discuss in this essay on the categories of students, I feel I see that exist at Belhaven. I believe there are three categories, Athletes, Dancers and what I call Belhaven knight’s. Belhaven knights are people who attend Belhaven because they want to or because it’s the easiest choice. They are the ones without any obligations like athletes and dancers. A Belhaven student athlete is a person who is in an organized competitive sport that plays for Belhaven. For example me, I am apart of the Belhaven golf team. . Student athletes must typically balance …show more content…
Now there are Belhaven knights, Belhaven knights are people who attend Belhaven just for the education or other reasons like it’s easy for them because it’s local or, because it’s a university with a Christian worldview. This group of student’s tends to be a half portion of homeschooled student’s and half portion of students that are commuters. They so often tend to be the one’s normally do really well with their education and other non-sporting extra curricular. Not only that they are the most friendly and outgoing bunch of people. What I have written so far is not based on fact’s it is based on personal opinion. Not only that it is also through observing what people are like and getting to know student’s from each group. This by no means that everybody is like this but it is a low-key trend that I have obeserved through my first year here at Belhaven

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