塔克罗素
毕业一年
2025
故乡/你称之为家的地方
达拉斯,TX
主要
心理学
你是怎么听说威尼斯人平台的？为什么选择威尼斯人平台？
在我9岁的时候，我们全家去纳什维尔自驾游。 However, my parents knew about Covenant and wanted to stop by to look around. So, we went on a "detour" to Chattanooga to pay a visit (it certainly didn't feel like a detour to 9-year-old me). Flash forward several years to my senior year of high school, and Covenant was the only place I could really imagine going. After digging up more information on it and observing the strength of its psychology department, I decided to apply!
你最喜欢圣约的哪一方面？
毫无疑问：教授们。
教授和/或学者对你影响最大的是什么？
Throughout my time in Covenant's psychology department, its professors have not only nurtured my academic potential, but my potential to be a person whose style of engagement with the world reflects an inner kindness for, respect for, and genuine curiosity about the individual in front of me. The intense academic rigor of the psychology department (bolstered by each professor's extreme overqualification for the position they hold), paired with genuine interpersonal connection between myself and my professors, provided the environmental conditions requisite for the unhindered exploration of ideas, research, and application. I consider the marriage between intense, research-based academics and genuine interpersonal connection to be integral components of the Covenant experience.
你最喜欢你专业的哪一部分，或者觉得你准备得最充分？
I often think of the psychology major as the bridge between STEM education and liberal arts education (to all my fellow psychology majors, don't let anyone tell you that psychology isn't a STEM field, because truthfully, you do more math than biology majors and know more about experimental design than anyone on campus). This being the case, every psychology major graduates from Covenant with both tangible, quantitative analysis skills, and a deep, semantic understanding of course material; that is, psychology majors not only know math and meta-level concepts--they truly understand the mechanisms of both, and understand how they interact with, and relate to, each other. An education in psychology at Covenant focuses on this holistic integration of information from differing levels of analysis, and teaches you how to synthesize conclusions informed by this approach. The importance of this type of education emerges from an analysis of what most post-graduate work requires of an individual: decision-making that is informed, not by an ethereal sense of intuition, but by mathematics, statistics, experimental design, and prior research. Compressed into a sentence: the psychology major gives you the tools to detect patterns, analyze patters, and understand what they mean. The potential applications of this are endless (i.e., it applies to all areas of life, ranging from one's career to one's interpersonal relationships). What is life but a collection of patterns we have the privilege of identifying?
What do you hope to pursue after Covenant and how do you see Covenant supporting your future career or calling?
我希望从事研究工作！
How is Covenant equipping you for active membership in the church or discipleship within the body of Christ?
Covenant prepares its students for active church membership by providing a very formal education on the institution of religion itself--in this case, the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). Through a variety of required core classes, students learn about the specific system of beliefs the PCA espouses, and expects its constituents to espouse.
《圣约》在哪些方面促进了你的属灵培育？
Importantly, mere education about the structure of a religious institution doesn't necessarily foster personal spiritual development (i.e., describing and experiencing an institution doesn't necessarily mean that you will be socialized into it). In my experience, spiritual formation doesn't occur within the clinical constraints of classroom doctrine, but within the context of affective, human relationship. In recognition of this, Covenant emphasizes community engagement in a variety of ways, ranging from campus-wide events to intentional one-on-one conversations with others on one's hall.
圣约社区是如何支持你成长为一个完整的人的？
从本质上讲，我对这个问题的回答是先前答案的集合。 Covenant's rigorous academics set me up to be competitive in a swathe of potential careers/professions; 《威尼斯人平台》的结构促进了宗教和精神学习； Covenant's community accelerated my interpersonal skills and development.
How have your relationships at Covenant shaped your expectations for the other communities God will call you to in life?
As my fellow Covenant students can attest, relationships that are the product of the Covenant environment are imbued with an otherworldly intensity that is uncharacteristic of the broader population's relational style. Recognizing this counterfactual produces a twofold appreciation and understanding: 1) appreciation for the fact that one inhabits a specific stratum of society that allows such deep connection to blossom, and 2) an understanding that once one leaves this particular stratum, the environmental conditions fostering such relationships are void, thus transferring the responsibility of creating such relationships to the individual. Overall, then, my expectations for other communities are characterized by a deep sense of responsibility and action; in a very real way, I'm not going to simply inherit the perfect community--it is my responsibility to create the community I wish to participate in.
你在圣威尼斯人平台最美好的记忆是什么？
During my junior year, I had the privilege of working with Dr. Washburn on some psychology of religion research; 我珍惜和他一起做这个项目的记忆。