Education

As my formal education winds down in the next few weeks, I've been pondering the privileges and opportunities I've had as a student.  I can honestly say, I've learned a lot.  A lot about the world around me and how it runs in particular.  I've been reminded of many things about history and the arts that I'd learned once upon a time.  Ultimately, I've learned a lot about myself.  Although, that is still very much a work in progress, along with the rest of my education.  Hopefully though, the road will have fewer detours than it seems to have had up to this point...



Something that has recently struck me though, is the example of my professors.  As I've had to run around to various professors and departments to deal with paper work to allow me to graduate, I've noticed the sincerity and goodness in the men who have been my instructors over the course of my Chemical Engineering career.  They are not perfect, but they are in my opinion some of the best representations of what men of God should be.  Men who stand in the world, and do their best to make everyone and everything around them better.  It definitely has given me something more to aim for.  In addition, it's made me appreciate more my father.  He, like me, has his flaws, but his heart is always in the right place.  Not to mention as I've learned more secularly, I've come to understand how much more he knows about so many subjects, and that he is in fact one of the few geniuses I've been able to know, and fortunately for me has been helping me to grow my whole life.  For which, I am incredibly grateful.

Of course, none of these people started out this way, they step by step, line upon line, grew in knowledge and stature, and favor with God, just as our Lord and Savior did.  This concept, more than any other gives me the thing I need most in life, hope, and along with it faith.  I know someday, if I keep pursuing the course that I currently am, I will someday be the man I hope to be, and the man I want and need to be.