Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood
as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving
that we receive,
it is in pardoning
that we are pardoned.
And it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life.

Currently Listening My Generation: Very Best of By Who My Generation see related

Quote of the Day: "I learned three important things in college: to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, and to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes."-- Agnes DeMille

I survived my first semester of college.  For a while, i didn't think i was going to make it.  But i came out with a 3.3 GPA, a renewed scholarship, and a wealth of knowledge (but not necessarily from the classroom).

I guess my New Year's resolution is to learn from last semester and improve this semester.  I pledge to study harder, arrive earlier (or at least on time), spend less, save more, and return my library books before any charges occur. 

For those of you who i saw Friday night: It was great seeing all of you before our break ended. Good luck, and God bless :)

Currently Reading Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Arthur Golden see related

Quote of the Day:  "Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions."--Mark Twain

Well, I hope everybody had a good Christmas.  I was so ef-ing busy, i didn't even make a Christmas xanga entry...unbelievable...

So, to wrap up these past 3 weeks in a few words: work sucks (nothin new there, though).  I worked 37 hours DURING FINALS WEEK and will end up working more this week and the next week...some break...

Anyway, Christmas was great for me, it just sorta snuck up on me this year.  Since i probably won't make another post till February, I hope the rest of everybody's holiday is wonderful.  Be safe and get as much rest as possible before next semester.  And don't bother trying to buy your textbooks from our bookstore until late next week...

Here's to 2006...

Currently Listening The Lost Christmas Eve By Trans-Siberian Orchestra see related

Quote of the Day: "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."--Bertrand Russell 

Attending a college that lost 3 weeks of a 16 week semester due to a nautral disaster sucks.  Now ALL of the classes (not just mine, everybodys) are having to cram in another test the week before finals, which is just completely ridiculous.  I'm so tired...I think everyone is ready for this break. 

Now i have to go write a paper for my final in English. It's due Monday.  Should I even bother with studing for my precal final, since i'm pretty sure i've failed the class?  I hope 10 years from now i look back on this and know it was all worth it.

I leave you with some advice:

Don't wait till the last minute to write a research paper (and by last minute, i mean the week before it's due) :)

Currently Watching To Kill a Mockingbird see related

Quote of the Day: "I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."--Janeane Garofalo

I made a 98 on my first English paper.  It was a much needed self confidence booster, since i failed my precal test and probably failed my biology test.  Funny how i'm a science major, and the only A i have is in English...

I have a research paper due in a week.  I don't even have a decent outline. 

I'm loving this cold weather.  But not so much when crossing the Montagne Center bridge at 8:00 in the morning. 

It's kind of depressing to think that, if the hurricane hadn't hit us, next week would be our last week of school, like every other normal college...

My schedule for next year is shaping up to be pretty awesome.  Hopefully everyone else is having the same luck...

That's all i've got for today, guys...my brain is still trying to comprehend why Lost wasn't a new episode tonight...