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I remember at the beginning of my current year of high school (Senior) stressing about writing my college essay and just continuing to put it off. I had absolutely no idea what to write about or how to even start. College is a very large next step in my life and I am kind of nervous and excited at the same time. I’m excited to pursue what I want to really do in life, meet new friends, meet new teachers, and just explore being on my own. I know that I am really going to be homesick for the first month or so, and I think that’s okay because almost everyone is. I think college life won’t be as much as a difference from my current life now; I just think it’s a lot more freedom and responsibility to take care of yourself. Nobody to tell you when to wake up or when to go to bed, nobody yelling at you to finish your homework or to get chores done, nobody to cook for you or make you dinner anymore.

I think it’s a big step that nobody will ever be ready for until they experience it for a year or more; thinking about it now I don’t even think I will ever be ready to buy a house or rent an apartment. I’m so used to living with family around and having a lot of people around me at home, and thinking that this will all be gone in a few months is mind boggling. My parents have always told me that college can be very stressful, but fun at the same time. I’ve always heard stories of being overwhelmed with assignments, projects, and labs; seeing how vastly different classes and assignments are from high school classes and assignments. As I’ve been on a few tours for an engineering major, I can see the amount of work I will have to put in compared to my high school classes. I went on a tour of Otterbein University, and they showed a huge spread sheet of the classes over the four to five years of college you would need to take to have your bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. I have always hated school as a kid and have always been told if I apply myself more that I would excel in my classes. It’s just crazy to me as proceeding through high school I somewhat started to enjoy going to school and looking forward to going to college. I think the big turning point for me to start enjoying school was the number of projects/labs my school started to implement. The freedom to pick classes that would relate to my career of interest that I want to study when I leave for college and being able to apply myself further in those classes.

Most of my classes now relate to my engineering career or that are just prerequisites to what should be known for the career. I think the freedom of choosing classes really helped me narrow down on what I wanted to focus on transferring from high school into college. I am extremely nervous to pick a college that will be the correct fit for me especially after having to go through writing essays, answering supplementary questions, asking for recommendation letters, and just applying for college in general. I think every teacher has impacted me in a very positive way pushing me to focus and achieve my goals by focusing on the positives of my current education and how it can help me rather than seeing it as boring, although school can always be boring most days.

Even though I’m pretty nervous for college I’m also pretty excited for this next step in education, and in my life. Having the ability to do co-ops and pay for school while I’m doing something I enjoy will be great. Overall school has shaped me personally and academically. I have had my ups and downs going through challenges and huge accomplishments like being accepted into dream colleges I would have never thought I would be able to attend. As I look into the future I will continue to look back at experience that have enabled me to pursue my future mechanical engineering career, and use them to further educate myself and eventually earn myself a job with top engineering companies such as GE aviation, Lockheed Martin, and even NASA.

The Ram and the Lamb originates from a collection of fables and short stories that seems to date back over 6000 years, although some sources say this could date back to the Game itself- although it's hard to say. Given the language the original text was written in, it's safe to say that the author was most likely carapacian. As they chose to remain anonymous, they were given the title of Record Keeper, or RK. Most of the tales and poems recorded are fairly short and concise.

So our story begins with, you guessed it, a lamb. Now this lamb is going around doing whatever the hell lambs do. She then runs into a bull who has been torn to pieces and eaten. The lamb is quite upset about this development because the bull was a close friend of hers so she’s a little pissed.

So the lamb goes off and finds the bull’s killer- a wolf who lived in a nearby forest. The lamb is like, “Hey? Hi? Uh, why’d you kill my friend man, that’s kind of fucked” and the wolf goes, “Sorry man, that’s the deal, I’ve gotta eat, sorry about your friend but this was inevitable.”

So now the lamb’s even more pissed and is like, “Okay, well, I’ll just kill you myself” and the wolf’s like “Ha ha, go for it.”

Then they fight and the lamb is, predictably, killed immediately.

So now the lamb’s in purgatory or a ghost or maybe in the dreambubbles or something like that- it changes- and is predictably really bummed about having been killed. She’s wandering around for a bit and runs into Death herself.

“Why so sad, little lamb?” Death asks, and the lamb explains her predicament. Death feels really bad for the lamb, although she knows she can’t really do anything- this was inevitable, so she offers the lamb another solution.

Death can’t reincarnate the lamb, but she can give her purpose. Taking pity on her and admiring her compassion and sacrifice, Death grants her the status of godhood, where she would essentially act as a ferryman for souls.

Man, I wish I could achieve godhood by being self destructive.

I jest.

The lamb is most commonly depicted as a ram after her transformation- thus associating the animal with death.

Now the Time aspect is often a misunderstood one. Most people take its core tenant- sacrifice, as a sort of looming threat, but the outcome isn’t always so black and white. Sure the lamb was destined to die, but she was also destined to become a God.