Always Impressed

I decided to tag along with the men's tennis team last night when they headed up north to work out in preparation for their spring season. I got a chance to talk with Mark, one of the players. Mark's a junior engineering major and a resident assistant in one of the dorms.

During the trip to the racquet club and on the way back to campus, we had a chance to chat about any number of topics - class work, life on campus, future plans, the upcoming season. I am always impressed with the ability of many of our students to articulate visions of their future that are not all about them.

While I don't have the opportunity to meet with many upperclassmen because the vast majority of the students in the classes I teach are freshmen and sophomores, it is exciting to see and hear how God's plans for their lives are being worked out. That's not to say that freshmen and sophomores aren't interesting or that God is only at work in the lives of students who are nearing graduation, but juniors and seniors are more aware of their dwindling days before graduation.