“When you get to college, you go from being carried by your guardian's wings to having to quickly learn how to fly with your own. It's the scariest yet most liberating experience once you find your way, and Guilford made it easy to take flight."

"So much happened in the first Initiate that we will be unpacking it for a while! Working on teams with instructors and students in a three-week format allowed us to boost academic confidence, create a shared experience, and build community in ways that cannot be understated."

"The intensive class structure gives students more opportunities for collaborative learning and builds a strong foundation of the organic chemistry concepts, allowing students to successfully transition into Organic Chemistry II during the 12-week session."

"The three-week Organic Chemistry Class was, as my instructor puts it, 'the intense in intensive.' I appreciated that because I am interested in pursuing my MD after undergraduate, and I need to be trained and ready to handle academics that are challenging."

"The three week block provided both faculty and students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the study of causal systems through a variety of lenses, while surrounded by history and pastoral beauty that was magic for the senses and medicine for the soul!"

"The best part about the Mechanisms of Medicine and Magic class was the community that formed which was something truly special and unexpected; it was a delight to think about magic in different cultures, the meaning of religion, the history of biology and Darwin, and postmodernism outside by the river and the sheep." 

“The three-week class in Food and Faith allowed us to travel to many different off-campus sites and observe communities all around North Carolina. We would never have been able to do that in a regular semester. To have such intensive time together as a class pushed us to open up about our personal relationships with food and faith, which made the class very fruitful.”

“The three-week Food and Faith class, co-taught with Wess Daniels, offered us the chance to see each other through a different lens. Bringing together spirituality and a personal sense of ethics regarding food was a powerful bonding experience, not just for Mallory and me, but the entire class.”