Exploring a student’s options when looking for Weber State housing can be a bit like walking the path of the hero’s journey. The student begins as all heroes do in the ordinary world of the mundane, the known and the comfortable. He has received his call to adventure in the form of an acceptance letter to Weber State University. Perhaps the student refuses the call to adventure at first thinking that he cannot leave behind all his obligations that require his attention in the ordinary world.
However events will eventually conspire to push our hero over the threshold into the special world of Weber State University. Perhaps a mentor of some sort talks some sense into the hero causing him to realize that the ordinary world no longer has anything to offer him. Perhaps this mentor causes the hero to see that it is only fear of the unknown that is holding him back and that his so called obligations are merely tricks of the mind to keep him from facing his fear. Regardless of the impetus the hero will eventually cross the threshold into the special world and find himself in need of Weber State Housing.
Once in the special world the hero will meet allies to help him on his journey. Perhaps the allies arrive in the form of room mates, fraternity brothers or professors. Together the hero and his allies will be confronted with tests. Agents of the ultimate enemy (the hero’s greatest fear) will confront the hero both testing and strengthening him for his ultimate ordeal to come. The actual form that the ultimate ordeal will take is dependent upon the hero. Fears are uniquely different for every person and one person’s fear might not necessarily be scary to another person. Be that as it may the hero will plod on because the hero’s journey is not one to be ignored.