Tech just canceled classes tomorrow. I mean don’t get me wrong I have no problem with not going to class, but really?! Is the weather really going to be that bad here in Blacksburg?
A picture I took of my friend Dylan at the Blacksburg Skatepark.
I had two quizzes today, two of which I didn’t know about until earlier this morning….. Yeah, this semester is killing me already.
Going out tonight!
It was only the first day of classes and I’m already stressing out. This semester is going to be the death of me.
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We are Virginia Tech.
We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning.
We are Virginia Tech.
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
We are Virginia Tech.
We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.
We are Virginia Tech.
The Hokie Nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong, and brave, and innocent, and unafraid. We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imaginations and the possibilities. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness.
We are the Hokies.
We will prevail.
We will prevail.
We will prevail.
We are Virginia Tech.
"We Are Virginia Tech - Nikki Giovanni (via aaamanda)
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Shooting at Virginia Tech, stay safe Hokies. We are Virginia Tech.
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Today I found my iPod. Someone had turned it in at the library, and honestly, I had thought it was gone for good. God is faithful even in the little things. Tonight at Bible study, we discussed the time when God parted the Red Sea for the Israelites. They walked for miles with walls of water on both sides, trusting that God would protect them. I can’t even trust God to help me find my iPod. It seemed inconsequential, I guess. Like God is too big and too busy for me to bother Him by sending up a prayer for my iPod. And maybe that sounds dumb, asking God to return an item that I was irresponsible enough to lose, but it was the heart of the issue that struck me. I had no faith I would get my iPod back, zero. I had already resolved myself to getting by without it. I’m struggling over big things, like decisions about school, and hoping God shows me the way, when I can’t even trust Him in the tiniest of things. Then He practically dropped my iPod back in my lap, almost if saying, “Here, look at this. Look, Grace. I love you, and you have to believe me when I say I’ll provide. Sometimes, you have to let go of things so that I can bring them back to you.”
