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Summer Plans

6 Feb

Well, I’ve dropped Calc 2 for this semester (soon as I get my professor to sign the drop slip). 18 credits was too much to handle and Calc seemed like the best thing to put off.

That means I’ll need to stick around Ames this summer and finish Calc 2 (May 17-July 9), so my summer break will run from July 9 until August 23rd (or 44 days without class). That’s still plenty of time to have fun.

Laziness

23 Jan

The following is actually a re-post of a note I wrote on Facebook in August 2009. Now that I have a real blog, I thought I’d re-post it here.

This morning’s message at the Ames E-Free church was about laziness. Pastor David Staff has been preaching a series of messages out of Proverbs, and this one came at a great time for me.

First though, notes from the sermon are available. Scroll to the bottom and search for “Proverbs about WORK – A Call to Diligence” and click the icon that looks like a sheet of paper. In the zip file that downloads, the file name that starts “Got Wisdom #8…” is probably the note sheet you’d want to read (either PDF or Word format, they’re identical). That page also has an MP3 as well as video of the sermon.

In the notes, it lists how Proverbs describes a sluggard:

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ISU, Tuition Costs, and Me

18 Jan

I’m a part of the Dean’s Student Leadership Council, a group that meets with Dean Whiteford about every other week to learn more about the college administration and the issues faced by the university, as well as offer feedback and a way for the dean and his staff to interact with a varied group of students on a personal level.

Over break, the group was assigned to answer the following questions regarding ISU and the tuition we pay:

  • What is my education worth?
  • Where do I think ISU’s tuition should be?
  • What kind of strategies should the college use to convey to students that we are a valuable entity?
  • What are the three most important things I am getting from Iowa State?

Although I hadn’t initially written my response with the intention of sharing it, I think that someone may find it of interest, so I thought I’d post my thoughts…

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