Everyone said that it was coming, and it has sadly crept up on myself sooner than I anticipated or would have liked it too. We are now entering midterms, which I hear are weeks of stress, frustration, late nights, and more coffee than is deemed acceptable. Although I feel as though I have learned enough material for an entire semester, learned how little sleep my body can function on, and learned where every nook and cranny in the library is, I realize the fun has only just begun. As we divulge into another week of killing trees due to note taking, endless equations, and chapters upon chapters of reading , I pray that, as ironic as it sounds, we thank God for this stress and obstacle we are currently facing.

Despite the fact that the semester, if you are like me, has already sent you into mental overload, we have something to be thankful for. We are blessed with the capacity to learn and develop more knowledge than at times we see utterly possible, but we are able. We have a gift that God gave us the day we drew our first breath, the day that we began to learn, even if it was maybe how to cry or how to open our eyes, we were learning.

God in His infinite wisdom looked down from His omnipotence and blessed you with the capability of accessing knowledge, but not only that He gave us the means to pursue it. He gave us parents who loved us enough to help us set BIG goals that we can use to help us set the path for our future, but not only that he gave us the will and dedication as well.

However as the “newness” of college has worn off and the realization of the magnitude of this endeavor settles in, so do the nerves, but thankfully you’re not alone. I know if you read my articles most of them have to do with feeling alone or something along the lines of “Don’t worry God is there”, but it is because I know that as a college student I feel alone, far too often.

You see sometimes as the homework on my desk stacks up higher, as my hair seems to fall out more and more, and the circles under eyes get darker and darker, I forget who gave me the ability to even form thoughts. I forget that even though sometimes as I sit in a quiet room for hours upon hours by myself, my Father is with me. I so often forget my Savior, but as soon as I look to HIM take a deep breath, and realize He is in control, the homework seems to slowly decrease along with the worry, stress, and loneliness.

As college Students, we are on the go from the time our eyes open until the coffee wears off sometime in the wee hours of the morning and our brains are constantly on overload. I also know you have so many other things to do than to read articles written by your peers, but slow down, take a deep breath and remember why you’re here.

We each have a purpose no matter if we are going to be a teacher or a doctor. We each are going to feel alone and like no one understands, we are each are going to have that doubt if we can graduate, and we each are going to feel like the playing cards are stacked against us, but maybe it is because instead of placing our worry into a God who is bigger than any worry or problem we have, we hold on.

So if you are having one of those weeks where you have test upon test and assignment upon assignment seem to be piling up and nothing else can go wrong, just remember “This too shall pass.”