This week has been filled with a lot of painful good-byes.Tuesday was my last day of classes at Holy Cross until Fall 2010. I\u2019m glad that I could end with Professor Perry\u2019s Honors Seminar, though. All of my classes have been fantastic this semester (actually, make that this entire year!), and I\u2019m missing out on a lot of amazing classes that are being offered here next year. I will survive though, methinks! Also, this past Sunday was my last Mass at Holy Cross for a year. It didn\u2019t hit me until I was counting people during the homily. I was standing up in the choir loft, and that\u2019s when I realized that that would be my last time doing that for quite a while. It\u2019s just a weird feeling to think that I won\u2019t be back here as a student until Fall 2010. Am I excited to study abroad? Most certainly. Am I nervous? Most certainly!<\/p>\n
Today, I turned in my Tolkien final paper. I\u2019ve been working on this paper for quite some time, so I\u2019m glad that it\u2019s finished. I argued that Tolkien mimics the Beowulf poet (or at least Tolkien\u2019s understanding of him) by combining pagan philosophy with Christian theology, specifically with regards to the body and the soul. I know that this is going to sound crazy, but it was such a fun paper to write. It was difficult, and all of the librarians think I\u2019m a little weird for checking out the entire Anglo-Saxon section in Dinand. But it was still so much fun! Who knows? Maybe I\u2019ll continue that theme for my Honors thesis. But I don\u2019t want to talk about that right now, because that\u2019s a 100+ page paper.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m finished with three out of my four classes now. My last final is Wednesday, and it\u2019s for my Early Christian Literature class. Between now and then, I\u2019ll be studying and packing up the room. Packing is going a whole lot better than last year. Remember my frantic posts? Those feelings of anxiety are no more! I actually have more storage than stuff; that\u2019s an exciting feeling. Another reason why I\u2019m better off now than a year ago: my computer is fully functional, so I don\u2019t have to rely on the O\u2019Kane computer lab. That\u2019s always a good feeling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week has been filled with a lot of painful good-byes.Tuesday was my last day of classes at Holy Cross until Fall 2010. I\u2019m glad that I could end with Professor Perry\u2019s Honors Seminar, though. All of my classes have been fantastic this semester (actually, make that this entire year!), and I\u2019m missing out on … <\/p>\n