By Alyssa Navarre Oct 4, 2022

The Millsaps Campus is 100 beautiful acres. It creates a feeling of belonging when you

walk through campus. The sidewalks are lined with traditions and secret campus

superstitions.

Nothing beats walking through campus for a tour.

I could go in and give you an entire tour in word form, but it wouldn’t do the campus

justice. However, I will share some of my favorite stops!

Murrah Hall

My first favorite is Murrah Hall. Murrah is the

business center on campus. That building also

houses the Center for Careers. Millsaps does

a great job at making sure that all of their

students, if they want, be placed in a job that

they want. They will also provide free interview

assistance, resume building, meetings to

discuss graduate school applications, and

anything else that you might need to be prepared to enter into a career. I love Murrah

because of my tour during my senior year of high school. My tour day as a prospective

student was rainy and humid, yet I recall vividly deciding halfway through my tour route

that I was going to attend Millsaps. My dad and I were standing in front of Murrah Hall,

and I looked at him and told him I was going to go to school here and I was going to be

a tour guide. Today, I am finishing my last semester at the college and I am, in fact, a

tour guide.

M Bench

My second favorite stop is the M Bench. The M Bench is simply a bench that is shaped

like an M. But Millsaps has a lot of superstitions, and the M bench is probably my

favorite one. Supposedly, if you sit with your boyfriend or girlfriend at midnight during a

full moon and kiss, you are destined to be together forever. I know this sounds crazy,

but one of my friend's parents attended Millsaps, kissed on the M bench, graduated and

married each other and now both of their kids attend

Millsaps as well! I also enjoy asking visitors to guess the

name of the bench. Some of my favorite responses are the

W Bench, the Squiggle Bench, and the Secret Garden

Bench.

The Bowl

My third favorite stop is The Bowl. The Bowl is one of the

most active places on campus. The space is a large grassy

area that resembles a bowl and because the elevation dips.

The bowl is an event space, a study spot, and another

superstition. At the center of the bowl is the Millsaps Seal. As a first year, you participate

in what’s called 4th Night. 4th Night is the first and last time that you can step on the

seal in the bowl. The class walks across the seal together to signify the start of their

Millsaps experience on their fourth night on

campus. The next time you walk on the seal is at

graduation, which is also held in the bowl.

Legend says if you walk across the seal before

your graduation day that you won’t graduate and

the only way to break the curse is to streak

across the bowl... Good news, I haven’t heard of

anyone actually doing this, but Millsaps

students know better than to step on the seal.

Millsaps is beautiful and full of fun, if you end

up in Jackson, come check it out! Maybe I’ll

give you a campus tour!

GO MAJORS!