7 Hours from now I'll begin my last final for the semester - that feels good. I really am a bit worried about this one, it really could go just about either way and is probably going to take me the entire 3 hours to complete. However, I've really just been in a solid mood tonight.

    At midnight, I went over to Sparks for midnight munchies. Thats where the professors and administration cook breakfast foods for us during finals week. This was actually the first time I've gone and loved it. I will not miss another midnight munchies as long as I am here. I literally had 6 pancakes, about 14 pieces of bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy, and hash browns. It was delicious. I would like to say I think our President is probably about the best pancake maker out of any college president. In fact, I would like to challenge any student who thinks their college president could make a better pancake than President White to come forward. That's Dr. White serving pancakes along with Professors Porter and Cook.

     So there I sat, brain-drained, eating away across from the visiting religion professor and President of the college, 12:30 on a Tuesday night in Sparks Center over light discussion full of contentment.

    I would like to congratulate professors Porter and Baer for recently being tenured.

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    It's finally here. I am actually in pretty good shape, I think - not ready to take any finals yet. My schedule for finals isn't too bad, CNT monday, Organic Tuesday, Art and Biology Wednesday. So really it's about how I would have hoped it to be, one a day first part of the week - couldn't really ask for more.

    I get pretty tense around this time too because I haven't really had any manifestation of my course grade. It's still hard going from High School where I pretty much knew exactly my grade before report cards, but now theres a little more randomness to it so really just put forth my best foot and hope for the best.

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     It's true, this is my 100th blog. It's really neat for me to look back on my time at Wabash and read all the ins and outs that I've discovered or experienced. I was really hoping to make this a neat entry, but it's 4:30 AM on Monday morning of dead week and I'm not feeling so deep; plus I have class in 4 hours. 

     The weekend was fun, I actually ended up at IU both Friday and Saturday nights - so you can't really feel sorry for me being up so late. The important thing is that I got my work done and can catch up on sleep some other time.

     This week shouldn't be too bad, I have an essay due tomorrow and a few more art projects to finish on top of studying for finals - but I really don't think it will be too bad. It's down to the final stretch and I'm up the latest I've been all semester just now... figures.

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     Literally, 2 weeks from today, I'll be heading back to Indy for Christmas break - where did this semester go? I remember how amazed I was last year at how fast the year went, but really this is absurd. I think what really got me was how busy the first 7 weeks were. When you're literally busy all day long, it just flies by - so I had class, chapel sing, class, studying, meetings, house manager stuff, etc. It really makes sense kind of but I'm still a bit baffled that I'll be declaring a major next semester - something that seems so far off as a freshman.

     When I look back at my college decision, I'm still very happy. I've had the advantage of seeing close friends go to colleges like Notre Dame, IU, PU, and Butler and seeing/hearing about their experience and education. It's not that they're getting a bad education or zero attention, it's simply that what we get here at Wabash is different, it's special. It's not a simple matter of training to be a dietitian or some ridiculously specific field of study. We're learning how to be intellectuals and leaders. I really do feel pushed everyday to work at becoming a man and really discovering who I am and what I'm doing. It's really hard to take a course like Cultures and Traditions and not at some point question oneself.

      Who I was a year ago and who I am now are two different people, I feel much grown up and have such a better appreciation for knowledge. It wears on me sometimes yes, but I am so proud to be a Wabash man.

Another art project - linear perspective of one of the rooms over in the Fine Arts Center.

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