Home Sweet Home

          After pulling your car off of the highway and into the city of Oxford, most Ole Miss students say “home sweet home.”  For sophomore, Cheasea Brock, that saying means just a little bit more.

          Ocean Springs, “the Coast”, is where Chelsea used to call home.  It is where she is from and lived with her family until she graduated and traveled to Ole Miss.  Since coming to Oxford so much has changed for her.

            Coming to Ole Miss was a no brainer for Chelsea.  She has many friends here and is very actively involved on campus. “I prefer to sit in the front of the class because I like to be actively involved in class and I’m that person everyone gets mad at for asking a lot of questions.”  

            Not long after her college career started her parents dropped the bombshell on her that they would be divorcing and would eventually be moving away from the place that she had called home for so long.  When asked where she calls home these days Chelsea said, “I really don’t have a place to call home anymore.”  She went on to say, “Since I don’t have a car I spent most of my break here in Oxford.  It just seemed more pratical.”  She was quick to assure that some of her family lives close by, so she was not alone over that vast amount of time.

She is enrolled in 18 hours of classes and is also employed in the work-study program on campus.  In the beginning she was not very interested in the Greek life that Ole Miss has to offer but after some time and thought, decided to give it a try.  For a short while she was a part of the Christian sorority Sigma Phi Lambda.  Ultimately she decided that it was too much to handle with school and a job and respectfully dropped the sorority.

Though she had obstacles to hurdle and a handful of adjustments to make, she overcame it all and pushed herself forward to continue on in her new found life in Oxford.  Chelsea is a remarkable example of today’s thriving generation.  She is fast-learning, open-minded, smart, and all around a happy person despite the cards the world has dealt her.