Endings are always new beginnings.
Well, we've officially hit the first full day of finals. I've got my Spanish exam in about 2 hours, a transforming conflict and violence exam tomorrow morning, and one final project to finish up. The stress of crunch time is mounting and students are flooding the library and sometimes taking up permanent residence in some of the cubicles.

Last weekend student life, sodexo, CAC, and res life sponsored a huge night of fun at the Rec Fitness Center. There was a movie, Wii games, Basketball tournament, Wally Ball, Racquetball, Table Tennis, Watermelon Polo in the pool, Rock wall climbing, a live band, board games, and free food! The evening was a blast and a great way to celebrate the ending of a semester.

Also this last weekend were three good concerts. Friday night was the final PAS show of the season, the Swingle Singers. They did some really impressive things with their voices that I'm sure many people in the audience can only wish they were capable of. Saturday night was a very wonderful Earth Tones choir concert. A highlight of that concert was that male family members of the mens chorus and friends sang a song together, and likewise for the females. The music that evening was just spectacular. Finally, Sunday was a tribute concert by the gospel choir "Voices-N-Harmony." The choir picked selections by the artist Kirk Franklin for their concert.

Weather has continued to improve. I'm now sitting in shorts and a t-shirt awaiting the 75 degree high today, of which it has been the last several days. If there's one thing that really hinders the studying, its the gorgeous weather epidemic that has finally hit home here on campus.

The ending of this semester, while also bringing finals, brings a time to say goodbye to many friends. Some people choose not to stay for may term and either go on to may term classes elsewhere (like marine bio in florida), while others are beginning their summer SST units next week (like my roommate), and others choose to start their summer work early back at home to continue saving up money. Seniors are also graduating at the end of this week, and as always it will be difficult to say goodbye to them.

These goodbyes aren't really the end though. Next year there will be a new batch of faces on campus (hopefully you might be one of them) and more friends will be made. May Term is also a new, more current, beginning and will begin next week too. This brings a time to welcome in some new RA leadership in the dorms, as well as returning SST'ers.

The end of the year wrap up is always an exciting time. So much going on, and so much to be doing. But, we're not done yet. Back to my studies! Enjoy your day everyone!

-Tim
Posted at 11:06