While passion and desire get you started, it takes discipline and accountability to realize change and see accomplishment. These basic guidelines will provide a framework for growth, allowing you to focus your attention completely on God during your first year at the Honor Academy of the Ozarks:

The average person listens to over four hours of secular music and watches six hours of television each day. As you strive to find purpose and direction, different forms of media can become a huge distraction.   
* For that reason, to protect the commitment to purity and renewing the mind, interns choose to set aside secular television and secular music, as well as refrain from watching rated R movies.

As a part of the intern family you will commit to developing and maintaining wholesome relationships with the opposite sex.   
* All interns will commit to set aside romantic relationships during their undergraduate year (both on and off campus).

While maturing as a young man or woman, each intern will strive to honor God with his/her body.   
* Any substance such as alcohol, drugs, cigarettes or anything that alters your ability to control your body is strictly prohibited. This includes abuse of any prescribed medications or over the counter drugs.   
* All forms of inappropriate sexual behavior, which include, but are not limited to pornography, are restricted.

There are other standards embraced by interns. These are available in the intern handbook.