I am not quite sure where to begin. I could explain so many things about college, but I think that this note would be a little too long for you all to read, so I will try and spare you. I'll try and just talk about the highlights so far.
First of all, I have never run on such a small amount of sleep in my life. During class, I cannot keep my eyes open no matter how hard I want to or try. Secondly, I never expected to be so swamped with homework ALL the time. I knew it was going to be hard, but not quite to this extent. Thirdly, I have been meeting so many great people here and I am so excited to see where these new friendships lead to. Lastly, chapels on fridays are amazing. They are called "Songfest" and it is one of the best parts of my week. More people than can fit in the chapel go to sing and praise God, and it's amazing to worship with so many believers in one room.
College has been a great experience so far, but sometimes I find that I get a little homesick, even though my home is across the street. I miss the slower-paced life and the feeling of having someone watching out for me. It's easy to feel a little lost about classes, homework, day to day decisions, and life in general. But a nice quote we were told during Prelude (Prelude is basically a class introducing us to Calvin's community and telling us Calvin's mission) was this, "The will of God won't lead you where the grace of God won't support you." This quote made me think of the verse from 1 Corinthians 10:13 which says, "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."I think that is so comforting, that no matter what comes our way, we can get through it, because God never gives us more than we can handle. (Not trying to be preachy, sorry!)
Hope that is a good enough summary of things for now. There is so, so much more that's going on, but I can't possibly write everything down, you'd get bored eventually :) Here are some pictures so far though...
Description of each going down- Getting my parking sticker, being sworn in a senator, surround wrapping someone's room on his 21st birthday, chaos day, squeezing into a car, and in Chicago with Student Senate.
