Welcome to College

"I've got values that would make the White House jealous" -Rich Mullins

Can I just start off by saying; college is hard.  I am now a senior in high school, yet simultaneously I am enrolled as a full-time freshman at the University of Akron.  How is this possible?!  I'm in the post-secondary program at my school.  This allows me to get both high school and college credit for the college courses I'm taking.  Hopefully, this will save me thousands of dollars on classes when I attend Asbury University in the fall of 2011.

And again I state, it's hard.  They never really tell you just how important time management is to be successful in college.  I have four teachers, each assigning 30 page readings with ambiguous due dates that seem to mysteriously coincide.  And somehow my life has gotten a thousand times busier, and I can't seem to find any time for homework.  Only the Lord knows what I'm going to do when they start assigning readings AND legitimate homeworks.

By the way, two of my professors are gay.  One just fits the stereotype so clearly that it is absolutely undeniable, and the other doesn't seem gay, but is very open about it and decided to tell all of us students about his much younger "partner" on the first day of class.  May I also state that the adamantly gay one is my POLITICS teacher?  He has this lovely way of making conservatives sound like horrible people- for example, he phrases questions like this;

"Is it more important for the government to lower the deficit or to help the poor and helpless?"

WHOA THERE.  Now isn't THAT a loaded question?!  The "poor and helpless" are hardly ever truly helpless, they're more or less just lazy or uneducated.  Plus, if the government doesn't get its crap together before it tries to "help" any more people, it's going to run clean out of money to "help" with.

Also, I have come to discover that in college, assigned materials that are explicitly sexual and filled with bad language are typical.  Well, that's just the kind of stuff I want to fill my mind with!

Okay- so all else aside, it really isn't so horrible.  It's practical.  It's almost fun.  And it's going to save me money.  But, Lord help me, I know I can't make it through this semester without having a heated debate with my politics teacher.  ;)

Pray for me?