Return to Columbus

It's finally that time again: I'm going back to Ohio State. It feels like forever and a day since I last stepped foot on campus for a class. The last time I was at school was June 8th, over three and a half months ago, which feels like forever when all your friends are back in school already. At least next year we'll be on semesters like everyone else, but for this year I'll have to deal with one final dose of quarters, meaning I go back later and get out later, not a very fun situation.

But still, this year is bringing with it a lot of excitement. On Friday, I'm moving in to my new house (new in the sense that I have never lived there before. It's not in the best of shape) where I'll be living with nine other guys. All of us are in Cru, so it will be fun to live with other Christian brothers for a change. Our house is called the Bruderhof, which either stands for brotherhood or house of brothers, I'm not sure, but I'm looking forward to creating a lasting brotherhood between all my housemates. It's definitely going to be a cool experience and I look forward to what God will do in our house this year.

Other excitement comes in the form of new responsibilities on campus. I am deeply involved with the Campus Crusade (Cru) movement on campus and this year I've been given the opportunity to act as head tech guy for the weekly Cru meetings. I almost stumbled into the job by accident. I was in Indianapolis for Christmas Conference and got to talking with an OSU Cru staffer about how I used to do tech for my high school youth group. As it happened, the guy who ran tech was a senior who was graduating so the staffer introduced me to him and the rest of the crew and everything went from there. I got training for most of Spring quarter and now this year I'll be heading up the Cru crew. I'm really excited because I love technology and making sure things run smoothly for meetings, so this year is going to be fun.

I'm also planning on leading my Bible study with one of my buddies this year. We lost a couple of our leaders to graduation, so I felt like this was an opportunity to step up and live out the gospel more by leading underclassmen and freshmen to Christ. I want to make an impact on my university before I graduate and this will be an awesome way to maybe change a few lives or the whole campus for Christ. It will be interesting, as I've never lead a bible study full time before, but if God really wants me to do this, He'll give me the words to say.

Classes will be different as well, since I'm out of the freshmen sequence finally. I'm excited to try new and different subjects and to get a taste for what being an ECE major is like. Hopefully things won't be too terribly difficult, but as an engineer, there's not that much hope on that front. I just pray that I end up enjoying what I'm doing because I don't know what else I would do. Maybe become an orthodontist like my dad. (He says he doesn't care if I do or not, but I know he wants me to ;-P)

Other than that, I'm looking forward to seeing all my friends again, especially the ones I made during my time in Chicago. I feel like I'm building a bigger, more solid group of friends and I'm hoping to build that group even more. Chicago taught me a lot about socializing, something I am desperately poor at doing, so I feel more confident around different types of people. This year is going to be exciting!