Housing Options
The Problem
Graduate school can be an isolating experience. As we learn to be independent thinkers and researchers, it can be easy to lose vital connections to others that strengthen our relationship with God.
The Bible describes both the benefits of close fellowship and the hazard of isolation.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!... And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him — a threefold cord is not quickly broken. [Ecclesiastes 4:9–10,12 (ESV)]
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. [Proverbs 27:17 (ESV)]
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. [Proverbs 18:1 (ESV)]
One Possible Solution
While it is a completely valid choice to live alone, a number of GCF members have found living with other Christian graduate students to be a spiritually enriching experience.
What To Do
If you are a Hopkins graduate student or postdoctoral fellow interested in living with Christian housemates around the Homewood campus, we can put you in contact with one or more Christian graduate students/postdocs of the same gender. You can then contact the other people and see if you think living together would be workable. We may also be able to help you find a place to live in the neighborhoods immediately surrounding the Homewood campus.
If you're interested, please e-mail gcf-housing @ jhu.edu. Please include...
- your name,
- gender,
- academic program,
- contact phone number,
- email address, and
- when you're looking to move.
This is most likely to work out if you contact us by the following cutoff dates:
Fall Semester — July 15Spring Semester — December 15
Summer — April 15
Updated: 2010.09.03:18:20
