Graduating

I am so totally excited!!! I have got things pretty well worked out that I can graduate next spring!!!!!! OK, I a a little scared too, but mostly excited.

I have been a student for so long that I wonder if I can "cut it" outside these walls? I feel like I am on the verge of being a "grown-up." (imagine that..me - a grown-up?). Intil now I have been able to depend on taking the next class and living in campus housing, but now I am going to be free from that and weighted with all other types of responsibility...hehehe. It's going to be great and I know that the Lord will be guiding me every step.

This first week of classs has been quite the struggle. I ended up dropping 3 classes and adding one. Fortunately the ones I dropped were full of a lot of busy work, and now I am simply left with papers and projects (much more manageable for my personality type). In the end, I am taking 17 credits and, so long as there aren't scheduling problems, everything will be in order for me to be finished with this part of my education.

You know what's funny? I never thought this day would actually come. I have been in and out of college for almost nine years now and I guess I just figured that I would neer actually get through it. But now I am faced with the exciting prospect of having the college experience completed! So, this week has been a whirlwind of emotions. Some of sheer excitement and joy, some of fear and pain of leaving something so familiar. But the truth is life carries change and change sometimes is hard. This particular change is going to be amazing. thrilling, exciting, brand new, happy, relieving, relaxing, a little painful, but all-the-way worth it. Praise Jesus! The impossible is being acomplished!!!!

Thank you for your prayers. OK, I should go do some homework. ;) hehehe, or watch a basketball game...the Lions are playing at home tonight and I really want to show some school spirit while I still have a life :) Thanks again!!
Laura Jean