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The End is Near!

So the school year is winding down to an end and I could not be more excited. I have one and a half weeks of actual class left and then finals week. To finish out the school year I have to finish my exegetical, give a persuasive speech in my public speaking class, write a 10 page paper for my Classic Social Theory class, and also finish a community service project for my public speaking class. I wish teachers would not pile all of these due dates on top of each other and yet it happens every year. I've just been trying to convince myself that it's not that much to do and that we don't have that much longer before summer break!

There have been quite a few events happen this week! On Sunday I was formally inducted into Sigma Alpha Iota and so now I get to wear my letters and I am an official member! Monday the brass quintet that I am a member of got the opportunity to play at the Composer Symposium, where students and faculty from Ouachita arrange music and ask ensembles from campus to play them. It was a really cool experience. Tonight was the Prism concert, which is Ouachita's spring concert involving most of the instrumental music ensembles on campus. The ensembles set up all around our performing arts center and we play through the entire concert with no applause until the very end. It's was a very interesting and neat concert. Tomorrow, a couple of the guys from the quintet and I get to perform as sort of background music for the opening ceremony of Scholar's Day, where theses are presented and presentations for other works are given. I have been very honored to be asked to play at all of the gigs that I've been offered this semester. I really enjoy getting to play for different kinds of occasions and events. It makes me grow as a musician and gives me more experience! 

A sort of big decision I have made is to undeclare my Spanish major. I've just struggled with it quite a bit and I'm not in love with it anymore. I considered just switching the major to a minor, but I would have to take two more difficult Spanish classes and so I decided that it would be best for me to just drop it. I also know that I can learn Spanish outside of school and it can be more leisurely and casual without having an impact on my GPA. I now have to find a minor that I want to declare and I'm leaning toward Psychology because it's the most logical choice for what I want to do when I grow up. I've got lots of decisions to make very quickly, especially since I am trying to graduate a year early. It's one of those things that I sort of just have to hand over to God and let him take control. As I continue to pray about my future, I know that God will show me where I'm supposed to be and he will reveal the path that he has drawn out for me. 

Well, I think that's about all I have to fill you guys in on! I hope y'all are as ready for summer as I am! ~Em

An old pic of me and Darrell (my trumpet) because of how much we've been together recently