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The Crunch Continues!
As with most of my post during the last few weeks of a semester, this will be short.
Advent is wonderful. The readings and psalms are so beautiful in the breviary every day, it is so awesome to read everything in light of the coming of Christ into the world (in Bethlehem, at every Mass, and at the end of time), even the old, familiar things that I say every day take on a new, profound meaning.
The metaphysics paper is slowly coming together (meaning I'm a few pages into it, but it isn't by any means in my head yet). I am really hopeful to get a bunch done tomorrow, but my hopes weren't very accurate today, so we'll see...
I'm tired. Gosh, I thought that the last weekend would push me into the final stretch with tons of energy and enthusiasm, but I am starting to feel the pressure of the end of the semester. I've got a few things left this week (metaphysics paper being the biggest, but also a psychology test and the senior seminar paper). Next week should be even more fun, I have 2 finals on Monday (psychology should be easy, calculus will be more challenging), 1 on Tuesday (Augustine and Aquinas, shouldn't be bad if I study enough), 1 on Tuesday/Wednesday (it's the senior seminar take-home, which should be long, tough, and cover plenty of material that I haven't seen yet...), 1 on Wednesday (moral issues, shouldn't be bad.), and 1 on Thursday (metaphysics, should be hard, but I will have time to study, so that's good). There you have it, the negatives...
How about some positives? I had a fun time this evening going out to celebrate one of the guy's 21st birthday. I'm not 21, so I didn't participate in any drinking, but it was a fun meal anyway, and a good break from the philosophizing. On Wednesday we will celebrate the annual Brute Christmas (basically a good meal and a fun time giving each other presents. On Friday I'll be done with the papers!, and we are also having the first ever Brute talent show - should be quite the evening! On Saturday I will be going out caroling with a bunch of other guys. We are going the same place that Ray and I go for our ministry (a Catholic nursing home), so that is cool too! On Sunday, I'm going over to Cincinnati for a Christmas concert of some sort put on by the seminary over there (Mount St. Mary's of the West). Basically, the next week will be daunting and awesome!
On that note, I'm going to get a decent night's sleep - I feel like I need it right now. Hopefully the run that I'm going on with a few other guys tomorrow will galvanize me for the rest of the semester. I'm usually not the guy that wants the semester to be over, I have so much fun and grow so much while here, but this semester has been pretty tough. Hmmm. This post isn't overly positive, sorry about that - it's late, I'm tired, and I guess the school work is getting to me...
Good Night, I hope that your Advent is a blessed as mine!
keep up the good work, you can do it! And don't forget to ask Sts. Thomas, Albert (his teacher), and Augustine for help.
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