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But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you." ~Matthew 6:6

Haley Williams

Jan 23, 2017

Culver-Stockton College

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Whether you are in middle school, high school, college, or the real world, it is easy to lose your place. We have this image in our minds of how life is supposed to be, what we are supposed to end our lives having, but we so easily forget that what we make of our lives is up to ourselves. You choose the effort you put into your classes during grade school, you are the one that finally chooses a college, you choose what job you want, and you choose how you want to spend the rest of your life.

But, as far as college goes, it is merely your decision. The college you choose should make you happy, it should make you feel like you belong there. Don't be that person that chooses something because your best friend or boyfriend did.

The biggest part of your life is finding your place in this crazy world. Let good people in, let the toxic ones go. You need people in your life that are going to support you, no matter what decisions you make. It is more than impossible to live your life with people who make you question your every move.

Relationships, the same goes for them. Don't settle too soon. Don't do anything because you're afraid of being 'forever alone.' You need and should want to find a guy that helps you find your place, and who wants to be just as successful as you. Believe me, there is plenty of time to find that special someone. You can accomplish your dreams, without a special someone by your side.

Eventually, you're going to get your dream job, the job that you've wanted from the beginning. There's always a chance you could end up somewhere you never thought you'd see yourself, let it be. Put yourself out there and the opportunities will be endless.

We're all searching for something: money, love, happiness, worth. Most of us have a bed, shelter, nourishment, loving friends, and family. I was struggling to write this and I stopped to think of what I'm pursuing in my own life . . . I always try to stay positive, learn as much as possible, love everyone and everything, and pursue a career, because these things are the most important in my life.

You don't have to figure everything out just yet, life isn't perfect. Perfection is unattainable. Live your life, live it with passion, and you will find happiness and a purpose.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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