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Could I please ask your prayers for my oldest daughter, who's having a rough week at college, and a difficult semester overall. She's taking two history classes (one with two big research papers) and a lit course in the novel, so has hundreds of pages of reading every week, as well as German and biology, with which she struggles (bio, not German so much -- that's her bright spot right now).
This week she has lots of tests. She called last night in tears, saying that her bio test had gone badly, despite all the work she had done, and now she felt behind in everything else.
She's a sophomore and made Dean's List last year, so has kind of set herself a high bar to try to meet in a semester with a hard, heavy load. I'm encouraging her not to think she *has* to make As in everything, though she does have the added pressure of needing to keep her scholarship and make the grades needed to stay in the UD Rome program for next semester.
Anyway, we're carrying her in prayer here at home, but would surely appreciate some extra shoulders!
Thank you.
Sally
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Praying for your dd.-Annie
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Praying- I remember weeks like that! 
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Prayers. I remember too well the weeks like that.
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 I agree with everyone else. Those were some difficult days. I wish her the best and I know that she will get through it!!!!!!
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Praying!!
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Praying for her...
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I prayed for her, Sally.
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Praying for her as she wades through these difficult class times.
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Praying.
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Thank you all so much! Haven't heard from her today, so I hope things were better. She does tend to catastrophize a bit, and tie herself up in knots over things -- I'm really wishing that she'd get, or give herself, a break somewhere.
Again, thanks for your prayers.
Sally
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Dear Sally, praying for her. May she find peace this week and not forget all of her accomplishments thus far.
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I will keep her in my prayers today. Poor thing, I remember college as being so stressful. Bridget
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Praying. Sounds like she has a really heavy course load.
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Thanks again so much. I hope she's feeling the love!
UD just is tough, and she really loaded herself up this semester. Back when she was registering, it all looked so fun -- Western Civ! Anglo-Saxon history (her favorite class, but it's upper-division and tons of work, with 70 pages of the Venerable Bede to read every week and two research papers)! Novels! German! And . . . biology, because she has to take it. Plus violin and chamber ensemble, for which she's struggling to find time to practice, because everyone else seems so effortlessly *good.* She's a smart kid, but not so smart that she can breeze through things without lots of work to master the material, and she's really feeling it, especially as her best friends don't seem to be doing all that much work. She's always the one dragging herself off to study while they play, or so it seems to her. So there is a tiny bit of a "poor-me" element to all this, too.
Again, though, I'm hoping that the clouds will lift soon, and I thank you all for your prayers for her.
Sally
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Thank you all again. I spoke to my daughter yesterday, and things were much better. The bio test did go badly, but other tests went well, and she was feeling far less out of control than she had been -- it really unnerves her not to feel totally on top of all her work. These little humility wake-up calls are never much fun.
Again, thank you all! Praying for all of you as well.
Sally
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Glad she's feeling better. Will continue to keep her in our prayers.
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Ah yes, the humility calls! Been through many...she is still in my prayers, as college was so tough. God bless you for being a good Mama. Bridget
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Thanks! I just booked her on the Megabus to Memphis for next weekend, where we'll all be converging for a dear friend's wedding -- even an all-night bus ride sounded pretty good to her, which really says something (!), and we can't wait to see her.
Thanks again, for all your prayers.
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