10. A pleasant surprise?

Yesterday was a very fortunate day. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have my marketing class at 8:30. As expected, it is kind of hard to be cognizant of what is going on in that class, much less waking up for it (this week especially). Because of this, when I went to bed at 2:30 I was pretty pleased, since I would get over four hours of sleep (which I had gotten the previous day, and oddly enough a lot of people were up as long as I was too, but I digress) and I set two alarms for myself, per usual. I figured that I would be much more ready than on other days. So, when I woke up at 8:50, the first thing that probably went through my mind was "You have to be kidding me. (emphasis on the period)" (also, this is not the first time I have somehow slept through two alarms without remembering them going off).

Now, normally, I wouldn't have been so sad and I probably would have went back to sleep and said "oh well" without any thought, but on Tuesday we were assigned an extra credit assignment that specifically states at the top "due at the beginning of class," which I had just missed. It wasn't a hard assignment at all (like, at all) which is a good thing, but it was still extra credit that I would have liked to have had. I wasn't sure how lenient the professor would be, since I feel like things are weirdly intense in the business school (probably due to my heuristics seeing as how two days before I was signed up for a marketing study but missed the start time by one minute and was not able to participate), so I thought about just skipping since it was the last class before spring break anyways.

I decided to go anyways to see if maybe I would be able to turn it in. Now, in my mind, there was no other incentive to go to class. Yes, they do take attendance, but I had never skipped it any other time, so one absence probably wouldn't matter for my participation grade. Also, over the semester there are six pop quizzes. However, we had already had three of them, and since spring break is the halfway point of the semester, I thought that the rest of the quizzes would occur when we got back. However (again!) this assumption was wrong! We ended up having a quiz, which made be very happy because I decided to go to class and I was also able to turn in my assignment, because apparently not a lot of people turned it in at the start of class and they just turned it in with the quiz. Success!

Anyways, lately I have been thinking about how just a little initiative from myself lets God work out disproportionately larger things and allows me to get much closer to him. Ironically, I had skipped going to prayer meeting the day before (which is probably one of the reasons I was thinking about this..). In my defense, I went to bed at 5:00 and the meeting was at 7:00, so I probably would not have been in a state to make effective prayer times anyway, but in my not defense, Jeremy didn't sleep and still went. But anyways. This instance was a much more physical iteration of this lesson, where it would have been so easy to sit idly by, but because of a little initiative, things worked out in a way I wouldn't even have guessed!

And later that day we had a class discussion about Batman, so that was cool too.