Study study study
I'm studying in my Mammalian book and going through the lecture slides along with it and come across this… need I say more? ha Dr. Wit is too funny!
Sick days are not Vacation days
Listening to: Lost - Michael Buble
Quote of the Night: The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
Last Day of Class
Well today was our last day of classes and was a little bittersweet. This semester was Dr. Wit's last semester to teach and today was his last day. He is retiring and has been a professor at Auburn University for a long time. He is honestly one of the smartest, most respectable men I have ever met in my life. Mammalian was definitely a very hard class but you know as a student, I know Dr. Wit was just trying to stretch us to our full potential which is exactly what we need in preparation for Pharmacy School. I am so thankful and honored to have been able to be in his last class and learn from him. He gave a speech in class today about the measurement of human life and our self worth. He told us that in our age we measure ourselves two different ways. One way was performance, we tend to measure our self worth by how well we are doing in class and what grades we are making. He explained that this is a slippery slope because you will never be satisfied. Even if you make A's, you will then want to be the person with the highest A and so on. The second way of measuring our self worth is by appearance. If we look good then we are better and will get somewhere and of course he said he was sorry to break it to us but our looks will fade, we will get wrinkles and we won't stay this way forever. He went on to say that our self worth was neither of those things but by who we are and who we are becoming. He said that he thinks each one of us as a unique creation that has a self worth of well over $6 billion and that we are very special. I was seriously moved to tears. Too bad I couldn't have heard this at the beginning of the semester. It was just so crazy that while he was saying all of this, I was thinking "Oh my gosh! This is exactly why I have felt this way the whole semester." All semester I have measured my self worth by my grades. My grades have not been great at all and it's almost immediately that I start thinking about shopping or getting my hair done or what do I need to do to change my body, weight, hair color, clothes, makeup, etc. I wasn't making the grades and it made my self confidence so low that I was trying to find a way too "look" better so I would "feel" better about myself. Dr. Wit could not have possibly described me and my emotions this semester anymore to a T than that. It hit me driving home that this Nike quote I found a few days ago stated the same thing and everything started to make sense. This semester has been rough on me and I have had many ups and downs but I would not take any of it back because of what I have learned through it all. The down times keep you grounded and make you appreciate the ups and I would hate to think differently. So lesson of the day??? All we can do is our best, measure yourself by who you are and who you are becoming and not by numbers or looks. If you are doing your best in everything, you will reach your goal and be successful. I know it's a hard concept when those things make you feel so good about yourself but like Audrey Hepburn says "Happy girls are the prettiest girls." If we have the confidence and love who we are and who we are becoming, that will do wonders on our looks and confidence will definitely help with our grades! We got this! Finals are right around the corner and I am ready to take the challenge! *Hope you all have a blessed week*
Listening to: Use Somebody - Laura Jansen
Springsteen
"I have such a reverence for Bruce Springsteen's career and how he's built it, the interesting part is it's a love affair that takes place in an amphitheater between two people. It didn't happen with Springsteen, ironically, it happened with another artist. I went to a concert when I was younger with a girl, and to this day when I hear that artist, it's the soundtrack to that girl. I never think about her any other time, except when that song is on. That's where the 'Springsteen' came from, and he seemed to be the perfect guy to craft that story around because of my love for him. I lived that song. I was 15 years-old and she was 16. We had that love affair where you connect with someone, and the artist that was playing becomes a soundtrack to your relationship. We didn't stay together, but to this day, when I hear Bruce Springsteen, I think of her and I hope she thinks of me." - Eric Church
Love Love Love this song, definitely takes me back to being 17 and my first love. Ironically, he had a jeep as well. We both went our separate ways but I do think of him often. There is a sense of innocence and naivety that comes with your first love that I think, for the rest of your life, you wish you could get back. When you experience that first love, you are on top of the world, no one is ever going to tear you a part, you are going to be together forever and everything is just so happy and wonderful. Through experiences and the ups and downs of life, you become a little hard, a little broken down, a little less expectant of the "happily ever after." I guess the hardest part of all is trying to keep the innocence and high expectations despite life's let downs. The best part of it all, is how much you learn, grow, and discover yourself through those let downs. For some, they may have their happily ever after with that first person, which I think is just fabulous. I hope you enjoy this song and it takes you back to your first love, in a positive way! :)
RIP My Little Pat
Well I came home from class today and found Pat laying at the bottom of his bowl. :( He has been sick for a while now and I actually thought he was starting to feel better but he left this world this morning. It was pretty sad just because he was my first betta fish. He was so pretty and would swim around and jump in the water all excited when I would talk to him. Cleaning him out of the bowl was so hard and so sad. Pat will be the first fish I have ever had and my last. RIP Pat! Me and Coco miss you!!! Hope your having fun in Heaven's lake! :)
Listening to: Sound of a Million Dreams - David Nail
Quote of the Night: Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. - Winston Churchill
*Happy Easter*
The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. ~Henry Knox Sherrill
Listening to: At The Cross - Hillsong
Good Friday
Good Friday is the mirror held up by Jesus so that we can see ourselves in all our stark reality, and then it turns us to that cross and to His eyes and we hear these words, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." That's us! And so we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. We see in that cross a love so amazing so divine that it loves us even when we turn away from it, or spurn it, or crucify it. There is no faith in Jesus without understanding that on the cross we see into the heart of God and find it filled with mercy for the sinner whoever he or she may be.Robert G. Trache
Sunday Night Movie
Romeo and Juliet is one of my all time favorite movies and of course, Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio are the perfect couple to play them. If you haven't seen it, this excerpt will definitely make you want to. Hope you have had a great weekend! <3
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