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Name: Joel
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Chattanooga
Gender: Male
Interests: Music (This includes everything that anybody calls music, with the exception of a lot of rap and country. I enjoy everything else.) Movies that really make you think about stuff, movies that don't make you think about anything at all, (I had to add this because of Napoleon Dynamite) hackey sack, Psychology, good books that I never have time to read, the well-being of my friends and family, God, His Word, and whatever He happens to be teaching me through life in general at any given moment.
Expertise: Being a sensitive, caring friend. (Please correct me if you feel I haven't been doing this in your case and I'll try to improve) :-)
Also, I sing and play the piano and a tiny bit of guitar but I'm not sure I'm good enough at any of those things to call them expertise... but oh well. Hackey sack, and random philosophising.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Hospitality
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AIM:  FairWarningsJoel
Member Since:
1/10/2005
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| I think it's safe to call this my first significant post of the whole semester. I'm not sure how many of my posts last semester would qualify as significant either. I'm not sure this one will actually qualify as significant... I guess it depends on what we mean by significant. If we mean of a reasonable size, it may turn out to be significant; if we mean of some larger importance, it may not.
I have one more final to take before I'm officially done with my junior year. That pretty much blows my mind. I'm not sure I'm ready to be a senior. Whether or not I'm ready, it doesn't feel like it should be this soon. I wonder how many people are ready for senior year when it comes. I know a lot of people are ready for the end by the time it shows up, but it seems like everybody gets that strange feeling of, "What? Senior year already?"
This year has been a crazy one. Being an RA has been... well... an experience that I cannot adequately communicate in words. It has had very good points and very rough points, but overall I think God has used/will use it to help me grow in some huge ways. I'm looking forward to next year in an excited yet nervous way. I'll have mostly freshmen on my hall, and that usually means a pretty crazy mixed bag. It did this year. I've learned a lot this year so hopefully there are a lot of things I will do better. I feel like I should apologize to all my guys this year for not having followed through on everything I wanted to. I feel like I shortchanged them a little because I was so busy all year. I guess I'll just have to do my best to make up for it.
I miss some things about freshman year. I miss having a core group I would hang out with, feeling like I was perfectly at home when I was with them, and feeling like we had forever. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I don't have great friends right now. I'm not saying those same friends aren't still amazing, or even that I'm in any way unsure who my friends are. I'm just saying that along the journey from freshman year to the impending senior year, really amazing people have come, and gone, and more have come. I've gotten to know a lot of those amazing people pretty well - with some of them it's felt like I got to know them too little and too late. It feels now like there's not enough time to get to know a lot of amazing people as much as I want to. I'm going to build relationships with these freshmen next year that hopefully I will touch in some meaningful way, and then I'll leave... It just makes me wonder sometimes how each of these relationships is going to matter. How will we be changed? Which ones will last? Will they all be worth the pain of loving and leaving? I think they will. I just wish it didn't have to be this way, you know?
I love you guys. I love the upperclassmen who welcomed me into the Bryan community when I was a freshman and taught me what leadership is all about. I miss you terribly. I love the seniors that are going out to change the world soon. I've felt a little more empty even just this last week with you all gone on senior trip. I love my fellow juniors who are feeling the things that all college kids feel, but at the same time as me. I'm honored to be sharing this experience with you guys. I love the underclassmen who have come in behind me to bring new blood and ideas to the table. Some of you occasionally make me wish I had waited a while before coming to school, and although the thought of leaving Bryan (and you all) is sad, I know we'll be leaving it in a lot of good hands.
It's too early to be reminiscing like this. I need to finish this year first.
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| Hello friends.
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| I finally got my cast off, but now I can't make a fist and the doctor told me I need physical therapy twice a week for the next four weeks. This begs a poignant question...
Why can't I ever heal right?
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| Thanksgiving break is over.
Thanksgiving was good.
I should be thankful for a lot of things... but I'm usually not.
Something to work on.
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| Anybody from Physio Psych have suggestions on how to record "Pulled an all-nighter" on our sleep tracking chart? I'm not sure how best to do it...
(May I direct your attention to the irony of my music choice?)
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