Life!

Last week I had a conversation with my nephew about life. Not the meaning of life, but life and what his expectations of life are. See, an unfortunate turn of events came about and we did not know if a family member would be OK or not. This went on for several days. My nephew became increasingly uneasy each day. At one point he indicated that he needs to know something so life can be normal again. Everyone else in the group remained silent. I spoke up and stated that this IS life – it comes with ordinary days, it comes with unpleasant days; there are good times and bad times. I went on to say that no one’s life is uneventful, no one gets the advantage of living an even keel life. I summarized by telling him that we have to face this difficult time to make those days on the beach with a colorful sunset that much more amazing.

Several times I’ve heard you guys say you ‘can’t wait to get out of school and start your life.’ Please take your time, please stop rushing things, please enjoy these moments. You will never get them back.

Some of you may be familiar with my suggestion of planning things … today’s plans are in pen and future plans (10 yrs & beyond) are in pencil. Why? Because Life Happens! You may know what you want for your life … then you meet this amazing person who wants something different - what to do? You take out your pencil, erase and modify your future plans is what you do.

Imagine this … 10 or 20 years from now you will be staying up late to plan your family’s Disney vacation – finally go to bed at 1. Thinking things are normal you leave a note for your spouse to wake you at 6:30 instead of 5:30 because you are not going to walk the dogs. Perfect plan. Only you get woken at 4:30 because your spouse took the dogs out (he/she wakes early for whatever reason) and the dogs found a skunk. This, my friends, IS life.

Extra Info
Due to my absence last week and pending absences in the coming weeks we are going to modify the meeting schedules a bit. (Life!)

I would like to meet with all sophomores to review your Intake forms before October 12. Around October 12 we will start with required Course Request meetings – this meeting time is required for everyone who will be taking classes in the spring. To schedule a meeting with me please open your Google calendar, on the left side you will see a drop down option to view other peoples calendars. There you can search for my calendar using my VT email address. Once you open my calendar you can select a meeting date & time.

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Important Dates
10/3 – LAST DAY TO DROP, this is a change
10/12 & 13 – Senior Pictures
10/14 – Fall Brake
10/17 – Last Day To Resign
10/18-25 – Course Request

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Random
When a bald eagle loses a feather, it will automatically shed the same feather on its other side to maintain balance.

Words to Live By  
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. – Carl Sandburg

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