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��ý University Agenda http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/ News and Events at ��ý University en-us Copyright 2026, ��ý University Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:29:00 +0000 Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:29:00 +0000 webmaster@andrews.edu webmaster@andrews.edu AUGSA's Kinetic Vespers and Game Night http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/70439 We would love to invite you to our AUGSA Kinetic Vespers & Game Night this Saturday, Oct. 24! We know graduate life can be busy with classes, work and family responsibilities. So, we want to invite you to take a break, worship God together, make new friends and enjoy a special evening with our graduate community! Saturday, Oct. 24 Location: Alumni House Patio 5–7 p.m.: Kinetic Vespers 7–9 p.m.: Game Night Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:11:30 +0000 Deeper Roots Bible Study http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/64206 Come join us for an amazing Holy Spirit-led and prayer-saturated Bible study. Journey with us as we commune with God in scripture. This is a Christ-centered study geared toward learning how to cultivate intimacy in our relationship with God, learning how to apply scripture to our lives, and navigating real life issues like emptiness, depression, anxiety, capacity, addictions, etc. Light snacks and fellowship to follow. Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:40:51 +0000 Kinetic Worship http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/64687 This Spring 2024 semester, the theme for Kinetic Worship is “Jesus is _____.” We are going to dive into Jesus’ “I am” statements and explore Him as King, High Priest, Messiah, etc. Ultimately, we want to understand more about Christ’s authority, kingship and priesthood in our lives and the riches we have available to us in Him because of our new identity as redeemed sons and daughters of God. We will be taking a Jesus-centered journey through scripture, and our hope is that the Lord will ignite a fiery passion in the hearts of everyone on the ��ý University campus (and online) so that people can experience Jesus, the Gospel and radical transformation of heart. We hope that you will see and hear scripture like you’ve never seen or heard it before! It is our prayer that through dynamic worship, powerful Christ-centered messages and loving fellowship, people will leave with faith on fire for Jesus because hope has been restored and they are able to see a clearer picture of who Jesus is and who they are in Him.  Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:40:29 +0000 Always on Time http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/64778 Join the ��ý University Graduate Student Association for warm drinks, bonding activities, free snacks and new friendships! Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:00:00 +0000 AUGSA Town Hall Meeting http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/64777 Graduate students, join the AUGSA for a town hall meeting on Monday, Feb. 12. Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:15:14 +0000 Kinetic Worship http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/64205 Theme: Identity in Christ Find community as you enjoy God's presence, amazing music and delicious food at Kinetic Worship every Thursday night at the University Towers Auditorium from 7:30–8:30 p.m.! Cocurricular credit offered! Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:54:22 +0000 AUGSA Graduate Student Brunch http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/63311 Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:22:03 +0000 My (Last) Last Word http://www.andrews.edu/agenda/60211 04.13.2021 We’re close. Close to finishing another scholastic year, close to being globally healthy, and maybe close to giving ourselves grace for not always being at our best. It’s been a tremendous battle, as the continent shut down, as the economy plummeted, and as the planet collectively went into shock because of the pandemic. For recent or soon-to-be graduates, it’s an incredibly stressful time coming into a difficult job and professional school environment. We’re plagued with constant sense of immediacy, and in a year where our societal institutions ground to a halt, it becomes all-too-easy to feel guilty for not making more progress. I’ve been personally trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to be able to look at life for the immediate moment––if something brings joy, fulfillment, and a sense of peace in and of itself, it’s worthy of your time and brings value inherently. It feels like an unnatural concept when those things that bring joy and peace don’t directly connect to your longer term aspirations.         I wrote earlier this year that I was applying to law school during the fall months. Now, nearly five months later, I’m still hearing back from law schools. In the law school admissions world, this application cycle was drastically impacted by COVID-19 and its impact on the economy. With a 30% increase in applicants from the previous year, the competition for the limited number of law school seats greatly intensified. It drove nearly all of the top-25 schools in the US to waitlist hundreds of applicants––with some programs, such as U of Michigan Law and Georgetown Law, waitlisting thousands. It’s part of a larger issue of yield protection, basically that law schools do not want to accept too many students that ultimately reject their offer. Normally, a law school waitlist would have a 100~ applicants, now thousands of prospective students remain caught in limbo.         What makes this application cycle all the more difficult is LSAT inflation; when LSAT, law school’s standardized test, was moved virtually, scores increased within all score brackets. This led to law school median LSAT scores increasing across the board; in short, the schools that would have been safety schools for me going into the cycles became reach schools. God only knows what happened to any reach schools that I applied to. It’s unfortunate that this year happened to be the year I was applying in – it’s been incredibly stressful and painful having to reevaluate my aspirations. Even with the acceptances I received, the increase in applicants and LSAT scores makes scholarship money even more difficult to attain––the prospects of signing up for a quarter-million dollars of debt don’t excite me. Broadly speaking, every element of this admissions cycle that could have gone terribly wrong went terribly wrong.         Why do I say all of this? Recently, I’ve been struck by the length of time we have in life. Maybe it’s just a defensive reaction to disappointment and perceived failure, having a mindset where acknowledging that you’ve done poorly in the immediate future but knowing that you can always try again helps. As a member of an intramural basketball team for three consecutive years that has only won a single game, I’m familiar with the adage, “we’ll get ‘em next year.” But if there’s something profound, and hopefully to an extent universal, I’ve taken away from this year, it’s that almost all things that plague our mind with anxiety and stress today mean so much less than the weight we give them. The missed assignment, the late meeting, or the unsuccessful job application all pass; if Shakespeare’s Hamlet is correct, that death is the great equalizer, I’m beginning to think that the passage of time is life’s great neutralizer. And by this, I mean you will return to your normal, or at least your composite normal of however long since your normal began. For better or worse, time passing will not inherently change your larger teleological path. Yet, time will gently guide you back to your normal life progression.         The next few years of my life’s trajectory has experienced a shift backwards. Instead of going directly to law school, I’ll be working at a South Bend Probate Court as a detention officer for their juvenile center. It’s not the immediate prestige of attending a top law school, but it’ll allow this cycle to pass, provide me a year to R&R and retake my LSAT, and reevaluate where and why I really want to attend law school. I’m not a particularly optimistic person, so I won’t say this happened for the best. I’d genuinely be much happier knowing my professional school aspirations were secured; however, I’m convinced that it’s alright to give yourself time. In my closing paragraph, to any people who feel a similar anxiety for their futures, I want to affirm that I’ve probably felt something similar. There’s no guarantee that life will become better, but I want to believe that when our societal normal returns, so will yours. For all of those reading this and wondering how they will be able to make back this year and a half that feels like they’ve lost, I wish you the absolute best of luck regaining your footing. <div>  </div> Thu, 24 Mar 2022 03:11:18 +0000