I'm Back in the Saddle Again

Well, that's an Aerosmith song most of us have heard before... a decent song. Anyways, I haven't posted anything in three weeks. My excuse is that after Thanksgiving, things would up and got pretty busy. I could have mentioned something about how in addition to giving God thanks for how he has richly blessed us, Thanksgiving is also about the virtues, the benefits, and the triumph of capitalism or free enterprise. Not that I would write that myself, though, as the late libertarian giant Murray Rothbard has already done that for us. After Thanksgiving, though, things really wind up here at school, with two weeks of classes remaining before finals week. And so I've been too busy to blog, especially with the difficulty of my academic load this semester. I'm glad I had that break, though, because it was a good time for mental and physical rest, as well as acquiring a great novel called The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, as I visited my uncle in Alexandria. One of the things that was so refreshing about the break was spending time with a great guy like my uncle, who is one of the nicest people I've met (probably the nicest lieutenant colonel you'll ever meet) and has a great positive attitude and outlook on life. Spending a few days with him made me more positive, hopeful, and motivated. This was a good thing, because while my classes weren't so bad earlier in the semester, by Thanksgiving, I felt as though academically, I had gone from swimming to frantically treading water. I feel as though I've been able to recover a bit in the past two weeks, though, swimming with a shaky stroke, but swimming, and the ship has seen me, my rescue imminent. I almost certainly won't match last semester's Dean's List qualifying 3.5, and I may not even match may 3.34 cumulative GPA. I'll just have to study hard and be clutch like Josh Brown, Matt Bryant, Ralph Bironas, and Adam Vinatieri on the exams and eschew Lawrence Tynes(to his credit, the winner against the Chargers this season), Mike Vanderjagt, and Jay Feely. I'm not going to earn below the 3.0 required to keep my scholarship, but while knowing that I can still improve things and even have done better, I don't want to get my hopes up. I haven't been clutch on exams so far, especially in chemistry and physics, where I seem to know the material on the exam, but fail to properly execute. Some examples of this included not reading problems correctly, not transferring multiple choice answers, forgetting to answer parts of a question, not noticing changed story problem parameters. But what's done is done, and what I must do now is move on and not repeat such mistakes, which could be difficult at an 8:00 chem final. Fortunately, the answers will be all multiple choice and there will now be enough time to check my work. Anyways, there doesn't seem to have been that much to post about, and most of what I have seen interesting is on another blog, which is why I will direct you to Will Grigg's Pro Libertate, an excellent blog for real patriots who love liberty. There are some things I'd like to write about soon, but I don't know when I'll be able to get to them. Take care and God bless the college student during this finals week.