AHHHH!!!!*!#$%^^&* Finals

~ This is my Brain these next two weeks!@#%%^&%^

Did you ever stop to think how do college students survive and live to be old and decrepit with only a piece of paper and a lot of memories to show for all the hard work. Today I was thinking how do we students survive! After living on espresso and granola bars it's a surprise I'm still alive!
I know everyday I get up, I have to ask for God's help just to do all the things that I need to do {homework, practicing, etc} because without him I'm incapable of anything. Can you imagine the people that don't have Christ? How do they do it, what makes them successful?
I would have to say that hard work and perseverance is the key to success.

This week I'm preparing for finals and Piano Jury's {no it has nothing to do with court}. Yesterday I did a 12 hour marathon of making a presentation on keynote for my Music History class. It was so much fun and by 4 o'clock this morning I had to force myself to go to sleep. As a result of only ingesting coffee and granola bars for the past two days, I woke up with the jitters and was very energetic in my presentation, which went very well. Josiah A. and Jason G. were my presenting partners and I'd have to say that our presentation was top notch. Thanks MAC without you my presentation would have been on poster board and flash cards! hahaa

Good luck and Blessings to all of you that have to endure finals these next two weeks. You can do it!!

Here's a little story to get your mind off of finals and all that hard thinking.




In 1986, Dan Harrison (pictured above) was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University


On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Dan approached it very carefully.

He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Dan worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.

The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Dan stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Dan never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Dan was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Dan and his son Dan Jr. were standing.

The large bull elephant stared at Dan, lifted its front foot off the ground, and then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. Remembering the encounter in 1986, Dan couldn’t help wondering if this was the same elephant.

Dan summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Dan’s legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn’t the same elephant!