Just a thought...

I was finishing up the Beartrail this morning... hating the fact that at 6:45 in the morning it was already getting nice and toasty, and I happened to look up at the science building. Now, for those of you who don't go to Baylor, this is a quite impressive building... it is actually the largest academic building in North America (SIC 'EM!). But across the left side, next to where I was walking, it proudly proclaims in stone "BY HIM ALL THINGS ARE MADE."

And as David Crowder blared in my ears, it made me stop and think. We do not make things in our own power. We do not do things in our own power. He gives us the strength, the tools, and the knowledge we need to do those things. And He gives us just enough for the task ahead. 

It was a comforting thought... I'm facing some big scary choices, and I know I don't have all the answers. But I know the one who does. And I know He will give me enough to make it through each day in His strength, so that I can look back and say that it was not me who made this work, it was Him.

-->>FiNALS!<<--

4 more and I will be a SENiOR!!! So since I am sleep deprived, sick, not wanting to look at advertising terms, and dreading my 9am final tomorrow, here are some things I have encountered/learned/wondered while studying this week.

10. Prostitution expenditures in the US are at about $20 billion, roughly equal to that of the domestic shoe industry. WHO RESEARCHES THAT AND HOW DO THEY KNOW???
9. Tiger Woods is the highest paid celebrity endorser of products. This was actually a question on my final from hell. I mean, why is this a test of my knowledge of the course???
8. Why is it that, when studying in the business lobby, someone ALWAYS has food, and it always makes you famished, even if you just ate? And the pizza that appeared every Wednesday at 5 last semester that nobody ate, what was that for???
7. Why do professors think we don't know all these technology chapters in our textbooks, and insist on putting them on finals? Honestly, who do you think created, tested, and perfected this stuff? Plus, its all just a bunch of hokey terms made up by old dudes trying to be cool.
6. Whoever was supposed to close the Panhellenic computer lab tonight and chose to just walk off and leave it all open is my HERO... because I should have been kicked out two hours ago.
5. Studying the same subject by the pool 3 days in a row will result in a slightly warped textbook. Sadly, this was my advertising book, which happens to be silver and very nice looking. I have yet to decide if I am keeping it or selling it back... maybe this is my sign to keep it.
4. The screen shots in my advertising book bother me. Some are on a Mac, some are on a PC, some are from a VERY old PC... consistency people. Use the Mac!! I mean, look what you can do on a Mac...
3. Do not lay out in the same chair every day. Mix it up. Otherwise, one side of you will be darker than the other...
2. When Baylor opened in 1845, tuition was $15, and room/board/laundry was $8 per semester. That comes out to about $396.22 in 2007 dollars for tuition, and $176.10 in fees. So please tell me why tuition for 2008-2009 is $23,664, and with required fees, the cheapest dorm and meal plan, it totals $35,472???? (Which, I also might add, is about $4000 more than 07-08...)
1. Whoever invented online flashcards was brilliant. I'm nuts for not using them for the last 2 tests.