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So.....Yeah, I haven't updated in a while. A lot has happened.

First off, fall quarter at RIT did not do me well. I had a very low GPA which was bad. I struggled for a good portion of the quarter as to why I was there. I wasn't enjoying my classes, and I wasn't able to perform up to my potentional. I also had a bad teacher for Engineering Statistics so as a result I am now re-taking that class. I think part of my problems came from being out in the real world, living on my own, working and earning a living doing the job I had chosen as a major. I learned a lot over the summer, so my classes felt useless. The other thing is that for the first 6 weeks of the quarter I had nearly no want to learn.

One day I was struggleing with all this and I remembered why I was at RIT. I had been focusing on the here and now and had forgotten my overall goal of coming to RIT.

My Goal:

Become a sucessful software engineer making enough money to do the following things (least to most important):
1) Live comfortably,
2) Incurr as little debt as possibile,
3) Be able to help my mom and sister with their financial problems, and
4) Be able to make enough money to have time to devote to whatever the Lord needs me for.

I had forgotten those things and as a result was living for the now. I was like what can make me happy now. Class wasn't doing it, hanging out with friends was good, but wasn't helping my stressing over the academics.

After the 7th week, I finally was able to regroup myself and finish out the quarter, but I did not do as well as I am able to. I think if I had realized it while it was still the beginning of the quarter I would have done much better.

So, now I'm doing much better now that I've got my priorities back in line.

Spritually it was a great time, I learned a lot even though I was co-leading a bible study. I have a great group of guys that I learn from while they learn from me. We went through a curriculum developed by Mark Randall of Rochester CCC. It was good and helped us all to solidify our foundations. I believe that my group of guys will be ready to lead/co-lead their own studies next year which is great.

This quarter is looking to be a lot better than the last and I'm looking forward to it. I am in good classes that I am enjoying. I am able to learn from my professors. Things do not seem impossibly hard.

I am looking for financial help going to a conference with Crusade called BWC. You can check it out at BWC 2007.com. My goal is to raise $400 dollars, and I'm nowhere near there yet. The conference fee is $270, and I'll be neededing food and money to drive up. Let me know if you can help.

people wondered what happened to my blog.

Back to my ADD.