WHAT IS HAPPENING.

Something quite unbelievable has happened.

The fourth semester of my college career… has ENDED. What! WHAT?! I know. Your jaw is dropped in awe and amazement of the skillful stealth of Father Time, who has so quickly stolen the last few months of my sophomore year at Roberts.

It really is hard to believe. I feel like it was just yesterday that I moved in. I also feel like a 90 year old grandma using the phrase, “I feel like it was just yesterday…” but so be it. That’s what it’s like. And this year, something truly remarkable has happened… as finals approached, (and then started… and then ended…) I realized that for the first time in the history of my life, I didn’t want school to end. (What! WHAT?! I know. Your jaw is dropped in awe and amazement…) But folks, this is the scary thing: I’m serious!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m more than ready for a break from school work, and I wouldn’t have minded if finals had been about one afternoon long instead of a full week… but after a semester like the one I just had… I just didn’t want it to end! One huge reason is that my friends this past semester have been just awesome, supporting and encouraging one another through rough days, weeks, or semesters… we’ve grown so much closer than before and I frankly just don’t like having to spend the summer about 300 miles and a state border or two away from most of ‘em. I love these guys!

But another reason I didn’t like this semester ending so quickly was big bad GRADUATION DAY. Yup. That’s right. Graduation. From college. First of all… this year is the first year I feel even indirectly affected by this day, because it’s the first year that some of my close friends include seniors. So now, (this second, if you’re keeping track) as they graduate and find jobs, I’m not only watching them (even helping them!) move out of Roberts apartments and dorms and into real apartments for real jobs but also (and yes, this is third… you were spot on!) but am realizing how soon this whole process could be happening to me! (Assuming I finish my bachelor’s in four years as planned and I decide against grad school.) HOLY TOLEDO, WORLD. I’m coming to meet you so soon! After 15 years of just being a student, I have 2 years left before my job description will read… something else! WHAT IS HAPPENING. I’m just hoping that by the time that huge jump to the real world comes around, I’ll be ready for it… because right now, I definitely am loving this whole college thing.

HOWEVER, it is now SUMMER!!! Which means, Mission Trip to Guatemala with RWC SIFE NEXT WEEK, starting a new job in Hershey in TWO WEEKS, and a road trip to the beach in THREE! Many things to be excited about right now. Check back in a few and maybe you’ll see an update! Now get outside and enjoy that sunshine. :)

Doesn't anyone care about finals around here?

It sure doesn't seem like it. My roommate and I feel like we're the only ones studying. There's too many people watching movies and playing frisbee around me on a daily basis that I feel as though I may be taking this studying for finals thing too seriously. But then I actually get to the exams, and realize I should have actually studied more. So whatever. If I'm the only one on campus concerned about my GPA so be it. I'm the one paying for this education. (Well, okay... and my parents. And the government. And Roberts, actually. But for Roberts to continue that I have to keep my GPA up, so that kind of goes back to square one...)

Anyway, I don't have much time today, obviously, since I have a final tomorrow and 2 on Friday, but I just read something that I thought was super awesome and share-worthy.

For my speech class I'm reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I don't care who you are or what your faith is, or even if you don't have faith. If you have eyes and a brain, read this book. It's freaking good. Logical, intelligent, and helps make sense of this faith I call my own. It's not even one of those crap "I will convert you into my religion" books. It's just one that makes sense. In the chapter I just read, called The Three-Personal God, Lewis writes:

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

Whoa, Lewis. Whoa. I like your in-my-face-ness.

Off to study the history of music....

P.S. On an entirely unrelated note and one that completely contradicts the book I was just quoting... I'm really enjoying listening to The Audition, lately. Feel free to check 'em out.