This isn't what I signed up for! Oh wait...maybe it was...

Alright...
It's Sunday night. I'm putting off the dread of Monday morning by staying up late...it makes the weekend seem longer.
That, and I took a 2 hour nap this afternoon, so I'm not going to sleep anytime soon. That probably wasn't one of my brighter moments. Oh well. Now you get to read this!

Here I am - back for another semester of thrashing by my textbooks. It's a double thrashing, really: First, I buy textbooks for unreasonable amounts of money, just to have them kick my behind at their first binding crack. Self-inflicted pain! And they say college makes us smarter!

Junior year. I'm about ready to go around to the underclassmen to warn them NOT to have a junior year...But I feel that may do more harm than good. That being said, I am kind of regretting this whole junior year of college thing. I'm taking a solid 17 credits, working 2 jobs, and I'm an RA. That's intense. Good classes though - which helps immensely!

Physiological Psychology (yes, that's what it's called. Don't ask me to explain it, cuz i'm not sure I even spelled it right. It's 4 credits. I'm scared.)
Theology IV (Ecclesiology and Baptist Distinctives. Good material + Great professor = favorite class)
Psychology of Learning and Education ("POLE" Looks interesting. Sort of.)
Dynamics of Discipleship (Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about. A class about discipleship! Probably one of the most applicable classes BBC offers. Sweet!)
Women Counseling Women (Sounds good...except it's a night class. And we all know how dangerous night classes are...)
Issues in Professionalism (online class, which is cool, except there is still a weekend of lectures, and a good amount of work to be done.)

The good news is...only 14 more weeks to go!

We actually had a snow/ice day on Tuesday, the second day of classes! It was nice, except I'm still missing one syllabus (Night class on Tuesday was also cancelled), so that makes me a little nervous. But I'm sure it will be fine. At least it's the class with that prof that never knows what's going on! You know, that one prof who is really fun to listen to and learn about life from, but at the end of a class it's like, "Ok, so what did we learn today...?" Yep.

So anyways - I'll try to come up for air every once in a while and update you on this junior year nonsense. It's going to be a good semester, but a tough one. Hopefully I'll make it out alive. If I don't - you'll know what happened...another college kid driven to insanity, huddled in the corner with stacks of notecards, drinking espresso and mumbling something about MLA format. Don't say I didn't warn ya.

In other news, it's -11 here tonight. Hopefully it will be warmer tomorrow...always good to stay "positive!" The good thing about living on a small campus is that on days like today, you don't have to be out in the cold very long. Although the walk to the cafeteria is pretty long at -11 degrees. "Global warming" is at it again...!

At the end of the day (or the beginning, whichever you'd like to call it at this point. It's 1:15 am), God is good. He is faithful, and His grace is enough. His grace is enough to help me pass Junior year (nothing short of a miracle) and I will be smiling on the other side. :)

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness!"
Lamentations 3:22

What you learn in college...

What you learn in college cannot be found in a book.

Things like...

-Quarters are priceless treasures that are to be saved and used only for laundry.
-Said laundry may or may not be done once in a three-week period.
-Minutes are actually 120 seconds long on Fridays.
-Friday nights contain little or no brain power.
-A student will have at least one class each semester that he or she cannot stand.
-A student will have at least one class each semester that he or she cannot understand.
-Graduation day is the end of the world and the foreseeable future.
-A trip to Wal-Mart is the highlight of your week.
-Going to lunch or dinner in the cafeteria with a significant other would constitute a date.
-Dating couples can be spotted across campus.
-Lengths of dating relationships can be predicted down to the day.
-Coffee can be used as a bribe for many different things.
-Students would pay extra to have coffee run through the campus drinking fountains.
-Caffeine is considered a food group.
-Ice Cream is a reasonable option for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
-Dorm life is an experience that one will never forget.
-Dorm life is an experience that one wishes they would forget.
-Anything without a name on it is up for grabs.
-Anything with a name on it is up for grabs.
-No matter how many times you see a person fall up the steps with an armful of books, it will still be funny.
-Hilarious, actually.
-If you are brave enough to root for a rival team while on campus, you are brave enough to withstand the consequential swirly.
-Morning people are more annoying at 8am classes than they are at 9am classes.
-Time in the shower and/or in front of the mirror is rationed.
-So is toilet paper.
-The Library is a place of necessity, not of want.
-So is the cafeteria.
-Professors possess many things like Master’s degrees, Doctorates, and your entire college career and unforeseeable future.
-Package slips in your mailbox are to be removed and promptly bragged about to whoever is in the mailroom trying to get their box open.
-That is, if you can get YOUR box open.
-Learning comes in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes they look like the letters “A,” “B,” or “See you next semester!”