It's 3:35am the day of New Year's Eve. I am up, as usual. I don't know why it is I have such abnormal sleeping habits. Sometimes I think it is just that I like to exist when the rest of the world is sleeping. Is this true? I don't know. Perhaps. Another year has gone by, and what have I got to show for it? I think that dental school is rough, and just getting through these past few quarters have been very trying spiritually, emotionally, and physically. The other day I was chatting with a friend, and she had mentioned that dental school makes her forget to be happy at times. And to this I have to nod my head in absolute agreement! Sometimes you just get wrapped up in the impossibility of it all. It's just these seemingly insurmountable tasks that the school is always pushing us to accomplish that drives one mad. I believe that it is perhaps one of the greatest character builders that I will have to endure. I know that I am about to enter a very trying 10 weeks. But I suppose one can look at it and say that we are just right there. I was counting down last year the number of midterms and finals it would take before we finished Winter quarter of our second year, and now I sit at the brink of it all. I can't say that I'm completely prepared for the madness that will ensue, but I suppose that I am as ready as I will ever be. I pray that God stays by my side as I know I will need Him more than ever. But He has never let me down before, so I can enter this quarter in confidence.