Three years ago, as a high school student finishing my sophomore year, I started this blog. My first three posts were all an attempt to explain what classical education looks like as a homeschooler. Now, I’m a college student about to start my sophomore year. In those three and a half years, classical education has…
What Does It Mean to Be Excellent?
One of my favorite verses is Philippians 4:8. And one of the many reasons I love this verse is that it contains my favorite word in Greek, arete. Arete means excellence; in fact, it encompasses a concept so excellent that we don’t really have a good word for it in English. Often in my mind,…
Joy in Anxiety
You might be wondering about the title of this post. Most of the time, we tend to think of peace, not joy, as being the solution to anxiety. But today, I want to look at that a bit differently. I want us to realize that if we focus on joy, our anxieties and worries will…
First Week at Cedarville
It’s been a while since I posted, but I have now officially wrapped up my first month at Cedarville University. I had a great time during Getting Started Weekend and Welcome Week, and I want to provide some details about what that process looked like. Getting Started Weekend Getting Started Weekend started on a Friday…
Sight Without Vision
I was looking to the future, but I couldn’t see what was in front of my face. I was thinking about the what ifs without living in the present reality. I was seeing opportunities today, but my vision was clouded by tomorrow’s worries. I have done this so many times, whether in deciding about college,…
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