Welcome, new students! Welcome back, returning students! And welcome all of you who are pondering being students here someday.

I hope everyone is starting to get back into the groove of studying and driving in rush hour traffic. I also hope you all got a good impression of your new professors and classes like I did. Because I took summer classes, I only have to drive into Baltimore once a week this semester for my two classes: "Program Management" and "Clinical Practice with Families and Children in Child Welfare." Both professors seem really enthusiastic and experienced. I think it's going to be a good semester. Seeing familiar faces in both of these classes and in the lunch room also made it a happy day. Field starts on Tuesday. I can't begin to express how excited and petrified I am about this field placement. People told me that if I could handle my last internship (at a school for teen boys with behavioral and emotional problems), then I can handle anything. I pray that they are right.

Even though we just started the semester, I am already thinking about the spring after I (hopefully) graduate. Where will I want to work? What do I exactly want to do with this degree? Where do I want to live? Here or somewhere else? Will I be able to avoid working weekends and evening hours? I guess the more important question is, can I trust God enough to let him lead me to where He wants me to work and live? And stop worrying about things that don't need to happen for months?

"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?" -Luke 12:25-26

-Sharon