There's only four weeks left in the semester!!  Whoo!!!

This weekend was such a blast!!  Allen, Ben, and I went up to Chicago, and that was great.  When we got off the train, we went to Millennium Park and took some pictures, then we walked up Michigan Ave.  I found Jon's birthday present while I was there (quite late, I know).  It's a bucket of miniature chocolates that says "Hershey's Chicago" on it.  I love walking in the Hershey's store.  It smells like chocolate all of the time, and there is usually someone standing there as you walk in just handing out free candy!  How much better can it get?!?  We also went to Water Tower Place where I bought some white tea from Teavana, then went to the two story McDonald's for dinner.  I love Chicago, and I hope that we're able to make it up there at least one more time this semester.

We have watched SO many movies this weekend.  I feel like such a lazy person, but I never have any initiative to get any actual work done on days that I have off.  Here are the movies we watched:

1. I Know What You Did Last Summer
2. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
3. I Will Always Know What You Did Last Summer
4. Year of the Dog
5. Smart People
6. Seven Pounds
7. Behind the Mask
   
8. I'm Reed Fish
9. Sideways
10. Knocked Up
11. I Heart Huckabees

Most of them were pretty decent.  By the time we got to I Will Always Know, things just got ridiculous.  Watch it if you want a good laugh.  Otherwise, they are some pretty good movies in that list

I am all registered for next semester!  I'm taking Christian Formation, Fundamentals of Communication, College Writing II (APA), Intermediate Macroeconomics, and Principles of Finance.  I'm really excited for next semester.  I can't decide if it is because I'm fed up with this semester's classes or because I'm looking forward to the new classes, but either way I'm ready for it. 

So I am now considering something new after I graduate from here:  law school.  It's not something that I had really ever thought about until now.  When I met with my academic adviser, he recommended it to me, and talking to one of my friends who is a political science major, it's something that sounds interesting.  I could definitely see myself really enjoying law and it could be something I could get really passionate about.  Plus, it would really set me up to run for a public office later down the road.  I'm going to take Constitutional Law my junior year and see what I think about it, but right now I'm researching different schools to see where I would like to end up.

Well, I think this post is sufficiently long/boring, so I will wrap it up with some sweet Chi-town pictures!

 

I am so glad to be back at school after spring break.  While I love being at home and seeing everyone that I don't get to see here in Illinois, I'm happy to be back.  It is kind of a strange feeling of living two lives at the same time, completely separate of each other and not capable of understanding one-another.  In a way, it also feels that I'm two different people because of this.  I don't know, I guess that is something that I didn't expect about coming to school, and something that people don't warn you about.  But to be rather honest, I like the Olivet Michael a lot more than the Gaylord Michael.  It seems that while I'm down here, I'm making leaps and bounds in progress to who I want to become.  Once back in Gaylord, however, I tend to fall back into old habits around the people I've known the majority of my life.  Now don't get me wrong, I love my friends from home and they could never be replaced; I just wish that there was a way to make them coincide, to bring some fluidity to life. 

The transition back to school after a week off is TERRIBLE.  I could not for the life of me focus in any of my classes today.  I'm glad that I only have one test this week, otherwise that could be detrimental.  I am just so happy that there are only 7 and a half weeks left to the semester. 

I also encountered a major bummer over spring break:  Mrs. Trout can't come down to pick me up after finals.  :'(  I was so looking forward to hanging out in Chicago with her, but we'll definitely figure out another time for that.  It is more important for her to stick with her commitment to the bird watching club.  :)

Not much going on.  Not really an exciting post, I know, but here it is nonetheless. 

P.S.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONNY!!

Nearly three years have passed since my last blog entry.  Where to start...

Well college is going fantastically right now.  I absolutely love it here at Olivet and could never imagine myself somewhere else.  I'm beginning to feel a little bogged down from the workload this semester, but it should remain manageable.

Recently, I have really began to reevaluate my life and where I stand, especially spiritually.  I feel like the first 18 years of my life I spent just playing "church", and now that I'm at school I really want to turn that into something deep, meaningful, and most importantly, real.  The last couple weeks I have spent lots of time reading and praying.  I know that I'm on the correct track right now, but I know that I am only just beginning.  This past weekend that I spent at home was one of the most refreshing breaks that I have ever had.  It was so nice to see old friends and to be able to just sit and talk with them for hours upon hours about where we are and how God is working in our lives.  I am so grateful that I have a network of friends that I am comfortable enough with to freely talk about God.  There are many people that I still struggle with talking to about anything spiritual so that I don't offend them.  I suppose that is one thing on the list of things that I need to improve about myself.

I know that very few people I know still use Xanga.  For those of you who do, I pray that my ramblings will help you in some way.  But I am mostly doing this for myself, to help improve myself and continue my quest through this world.