...and who wants to be eating chimini-chAngas in the cafeteria everyday? not me.
my practical conscience and my lj conscience have been battling it out for a while now--i really should not be updating right now, but have felt a constant nagging within to do so. so i will.
spring is here at vandy! (and all over the northern hemisphere, i'm sure) i have decided that spring is my favorite season. the blooming flowers and the warm air and the sunshine and the leaves and the green grass all serve to make me such a happy camper! i can't help but smile as i'm walking through campus. i never realize how drab winter is until spring finally arrives! how wonderful it is! wonderful, wonderful!
spring also brings a lot of work, however. i have a bazillion projects and homework assignments and tests and things coming up...eek. i am glad that i have the beautiful weather to counter-act the ickiness that school work brings. i'm itching for a summer break!...or even a graduation...a stable, normal life that is not based on test scores and tedious assignments--please! or just a break, that would be just as well.
as far as internships go, i was rejected from ALL of them! even the ones from morehouse--the all-black school--go figure! i just applied for one other one in atlanta...it is actually at a major consulting firm...and i'm pretty hopeful about it (just trying not to get my hopes up too high). i know that whether or not i get it, though, God is in control. i hadn't been trusting Him that much for the past couple months, and it definitely showed up in all of my relationships. but lately He's reminded me of how much I really DO need him...and i am starting to feel more peaceful about my situation. I had to give my testimony at community group sunday night, and it was a big blessing for me in that through the recounting of my life-story, God reminded me of all the wonderful reasons i have to praise him...he has always been faithful to me...why should i stop trusting him now?
i went to bible study last thursday for the first time since january...it was really weird, but i was really blessed by it. (for those of you who care, they are going through a series of the rolling stones' top 5 hits of all time...the study was on the song "i can't get no satisfaction" and we discussed how we can only get our satisfaction from christ. it was a pretty 'rockin' study.) it's weird being at bcm when none of my really close girlfriends are there...it was still great and all...just strange...i feel sort of out of place, which is silly, but the truth. i really can't wait until everybody is back next year! really really!
i got confirmation from my grandparents today that i can use their frequent flier miles to go to europe...i just have to let them know dates. i have no idea when i'll ever plan that though, since i have no permanent plans yet for this summer...eek. trusting, trusting. and also excited that this is going to be very probable possibility!
i just got back from dinner w/ deBo and nathan. deBo cooked some amazing chimichangas... a. maze. ing. and the famous cheese dip. wowzers. and spanish rice. deBo and nathan are perhaps the two most awesome boys to ever walk vanderbilt's campus. also, from their sweet 11th floor suite i witnessed the greatest sunset of all time (at least that i've ever seen in nashville). it set behind a backdrop of tennis courts filled with tennis players and fields filled with people playing an assortment of intramural sports. i mention this because it is so nice to see people outside again, taking advantage of the most wonderful weather of all time.
i feel like there is so much more that i could possibly write about...hmmm.... oh well, nothing is coming to me at this moment and i have a feeling this is way longer than expected. oh yes! i do want to share one verse that's been on my heart and in my mind lately. it is daniel 9:18b--"We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy." that verse has had a huge impact on the way i've been praying lately...god really does answer prayers and wants us to make requests of him, even if we are not completely right with him...because he is so full of mercy. wow.....anyway...wow, i've actually written about serious things. i will have to end this by saying something witty:
something witty.
love,
mackenzie kate thomas
spring is here at vandy! (and all over the northern hemisphere, i'm sure) i have decided that spring is my favorite season. the blooming flowers and the warm air and the sunshine and the leaves and the green grass all serve to make me such a happy camper! i can't help but smile as i'm walking through campus. i never realize how drab winter is until spring finally arrives! how wonderful it is! wonderful, wonderful!
spring also brings a lot of work, however. i have a bazillion projects and homework assignments and tests and things coming up...eek. i am glad that i have the beautiful weather to counter-act the ickiness that school work brings. i'm itching for a summer break!...or even a graduation...a stable, normal life that is not based on test scores and tedious assignments--please! or just a break, that would be just as well.
as far as internships go, i was rejected from ALL of them! even the ones from morehouse--the all-black school--go figure! i just applied for one other one in atlanta...it is actually at a major consulting firm...and i'm pretty hopeful about it (just trying not to get my hopes up too high). i know that whether or not i get it, though, God is in control. i hadn't been trusting Him that much for the past couple months, and it definitely showed up in all of my relationships. but lately He's reminded me of how much I really DO need him...and i am starting to feel more peaceful about my situation. I had to give my testimony at community group sunday night, and it was a big blessing for me in that through the recounting of my life-story, God reminded me of all the wonderful reasons i have to praise him...he has always been faithful to me...why should i stop trusting him now?
i went to bible study last thursday for the first time since january...it was really weird, but i was really blessed by it. (for those of you who care, they are going through a series of the rolling stones' top 5 hits of all time...the study was on the song "i can't get no satisfaction" and we discussed how we can only get our satisfaction from christ. it was a pretty 'rockin' study.) it's weird being at bcm when none of my really close girlfriends are there...it was still great and all...just strange...i feel sort of out of place, which is silly, but the truth. i really can't wait until everybody is back next year! really really!
i got confirmation from my grandparents today that i can use their frequent flier miles to go to europe...i just have to let them know dates. i have no idea when i'll ever plan that though, since i have no permanent plans yet for this summer...eek. trusting, trusting. and also excited that this is going to be very probable possibility!
i just got back from dinner w/ deBo and nathan. deBo cooked some amazing chimichangas... a. maze. ing. and the famous cheese dip. wowzers. and spanish rice. deBo and nathan are perhaps the two most awesome boys to ever walk vanderbilt's campus. also, from their sweet 11th floor suite i witnessed the greatest sunset of all time (at least that i've ever seen in nashville). it set behind a backdrop of tennis courts filled with tennis players and fields filled with people playing an assortment of intramural sports. i mention this because it is so nice to see people outside again, taking advantage of the most wonderful weather of all time.
i feel like there is so much more that i could possibly write about...hmmm.... oh well, nothing is coming to me at this moment and i have a feeling this is way longer than expected. oh yes! i do want to share one verse that's been on my heart and in my mind lately. it is daniel 9:18b--"We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy." that verse has had a huge impact on the way i've been praying lately...god really does answer prayers and wants us to make requests of him, even if we are not completely right with him...because he is so full of mercy. wow.....anyway...wow, i've actually written about serious things. i will have to end this by saying something witty:
something witty.
love,
mackenzie kate thomas