As college rolls though this first semester, more and more differences are noticed from the years in high school. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! "Experience" from Essays: Second Series (1844) by Ralph Waldo Emerson _____________________________________ <Tab/>I'm not a very emotional person (Thank God for that!!) that's why defeats don't really get me. Sure, I mope the first few minutes upon realization that I lost something …showed first 75 words of 385 total…

…showed last 75 words of 385 total…than the people around me realize. But if there's one thing I've learned for the past 18 years of my life, it's that God makes us undergo all of these trials for a reason. He lets us make mistakes not to emphasize that we have failed, but to make us realize that no matter what, we will somehow find a way to move on. He has faith in us more than we have faith in Him.