Relief at last...LOL!
Oct. 20th, 2003 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
songofjoy02I got grades in both of my classes this morning. I got my biology test back...not perfect--far from it, in fact, but a 97, nonetheless. I got four questions wrong--out of about 45. My score without the bonus question was the same as my "real" score on my history test, interestingly. In a class of 19, 4 people got A's, 7 got B's, and the rest were lower...I don't know who else got A's.
I also got A's on my English papers--both my critique and my explanatory essay (anti-flirting paper). I was relieved about the A's, but thrilled when I discovered that my teacher did not have ANY marks on my papers regarding grammar. To me, that is success...not like an A+, but success nonetheless. And she didn't write anything on my critique paper, except a VERY brief comment at the end, with no suggestions for improving it. She had one comment about improving my anti-flirting paper, but that was it. I think, though, that I had ended up discussing both of the those papers with her somewhat, and that really did help. I got to talk to her about my analysis today, and that also was quite helpful. I feel as if I could just sit and talk with her about writing forever. I'm sorry I won't have her when I leave here.=( But that is looking too far ahead.
Today, I am really bored. My homework is as done as it needs to be for now...further done than it usually is on Monday. I guess it was from having all that time off. Yesterday, I did help get things ready for making supper for church--I helped peel apples and I cut all of them up. Then, I "finished" peeling carrots (I'm a perfectionist in some respects, if any of you haven't gathered that) and cut them up. I took my science book with me to AWANA, and read about genotypes and phenotypes. Remarkably, I actually remember the information quite well from when we studied it in the Wisdom Booklets...amazing how that stuff can come back after so many years. I DON'T remember the spiritual analogies, though. I wish I could think of some, but I can't.
I got to talk to one of the guys in my science class a little this morning...he's the 29 y.o. who's very studious...and he's planning on going on to become a general physician for WalMart.=) If hard work will get him there, he will do it...and I think he is being realistic in his goals. In a way, it doesn't sound very ambitious, but maybe his age and life experiences have helped him figure out what he can really do, and what would be truly useful.
Well, I now know for sure that one of my classmates is not a Christian...and now my prayers for the Lord to prepare the person's heart will be that much more intense as I look for opportunities to share Christ's love with the person. It was actually last night that I was really praying for the Lord to give me boldness in sharing the Gospel. I mean, it's great to study and to focus on the lessons at hand, but if I graduate from college without having told anyone about the most important thing in life, then my success will be a failure of eternal import. When I come down to it, being with people is one of the biggest reasons that I'm coming to a real campus instead of doing things over the internet. I wanted to have the opportunity to develop relationships and witness to people...and here I am. We will see what the Lord does. It is all very exciting, though, as I see already that He is answering my prayer from last night. Sorry I'm not being very specific at the moment! My ETEC class is coming up in minutes, so I guess I should check over my PowerPoint project, which really is "done." I'm tired of it, too.
I also got A's on my English papers--both my critique and my explanatory essay (anti-flirting paper). I was relieved about the A's, but thrilled when I discovered that my teacher did not have ANY marks on my papers regarding grammar. To me, that is success...not like an A+, but success nonetheless. And she didn't write anything on my critique paper, except a VERY brief comment at the end, with no suggestions for improving it. She had one comment about improving my anti-flirting paper, but that was it. I think, though, that I had ended up discussing both of the those papers with her somewhat, and that really did help. I got to talk to her about my analysis today, and that also was quite helpful. I feel as if I could just sit and talk with her about writing forever. I'm sorry I won't have her when I leave here.=( But that is looking too far ahead.
Today, I am really bored. My homework is as done as it needs to be for now...further done than it usually is on Monday. I guess it was from having all that time off. Yesterday, I did help get things ready for making supper for church--I helped peel apples and I cut all of them up. Then, I "finished" peeling carrots (I'm a perfectionist in some respects, if any of you haven't gathered that) and cut them up. I took my science book with me to AWANA, and read about genotypes and phenotypes. Remarkably, I actually remember the information quite well from when we studied it in the Wisdom Booklets...amazing how that stuff can come back after so many years. I DON'T remember the spiritual analogies, though. I wish I could think of some, but I can't.
I got to talk to one of the guys in my science class a little this morning...he's the 29 y.o. who's very studious...and he's planning on going on to become a general physician for WalMart.=) If hard work will get him there, he will do it...and I think he is being realistic in his goals. In a way, it doesn't sound very ambitious, but maybe his age and life experiences have helped him figure out what he can really do, and what would be truly useful.
Well, I now know for sure that one of my classmates is not a Christian...and now my prayers for the Lord to prepare the person's heart will be that much more intense as I look for opportunities to share Christ's love with the person. It was actually last night that I was really praying for the Lord to give me boldness in sharing the Gospel. I mean, it's great to study and to focus on the lessons at hand, but if I graduate from college without having told anyone about the most important thing in life, then my success will be a failure of eternal import. When I come down to it, being with people is one of the biggest reasons that I'm coming to a real campus instead of doing things over the internet. I wanted to have the opportunity to develop relationships and witness to people...and here I am. We will see what the Lord does. It is all very exciting, though, as I see already that He is answering my prayer from last night. Sorry I'm not being very specific at the moment! My ETEC class is coming up in minutes, so I guess I should check over my PowerPoint project, which really is "done." I'm tired of it, too.
