I am now in my fourth week of my first semester in seminary. I'm taking an Old Testament class that is three credits (units). Up to this point, I've been working pretty hard. I finished one paper two weeks ago that was due this week. I finished a timeline assignment of Israel's history last week, which isn't due until November. I had a day off from vacation and spent 12 hours writing it. Phew...The reason why I finished that one so early is because next month my schedule will get crazy.
Next month, I will take two more classes: one is one unit and the other is two units so in total, I will be taking three classes at the same time. For my O.T. class, I still have one more paper that is due in October, but my goal is to get that paper done before the other two classes begin. Then I will only have to worry about quizzes and lectures for my O.T. class.
So how can I describe seminary up to this point? Very interesting but the work is intense. It's not necessarily difficult. It's just extremely time consuming. For example, last week, I had to watch five lectures: 54 minutes, 37 minutes, 28 minutes, 9 minutes, and 15 minutes in duration respectively. I had to take notes as I was listening to the lectures, so last week I had 15 pages of notes. On top of that, I had to read one chapter from one book, 12 pages out of another, and 8 chapters out of the Bible.
All I can say is that thanks to help from the Lord and me working my rear end off, my current grade in my O.T. class is an 89%. We'll see how strict my professor grades my papers. That will determine if I have a chance at an A in this class or not.
All I can do is do my best and hope that I can get a Master's Degree. Unfortunately, I need to get through 95 units (credits) to graduate. After this semester, I will have 89 left, which will pretty much have me graduating in 2023. It's a long way to go, but the beginning has been okay so far despite the intense amount of work. To God be the glory!
Scott Worden
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