By Deepika Azariah

Deepika (front row, purple dress) with her class at an AC formal event

Are you a junior? A freshman recently asked this of me.

“Uh, yes. Yes, I am!” This realization, that I’m an upperclassman, has taken a while to sink in. I remember being a freshman at Herbert W. Armstrong College like it was yesterday. But then the upperclassmen graduate, and you fill their shoes. Along with that, you look back on two years of experience, education and training.

So what’s it like?

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Posted by Adar Kielczewski

Why did Mr. Armstrong write an autobiography? What can we learn from it today? These are important questions that can help you answer another: Why am I reading it? Mr. Armstrong is the man God used to introduce each of us to His way of life. All of us came to know God either directly from Mr. Armstrong, by his writings, or via our parents’ connection with him. This is why last fall, when I heard there would be a Herbert W. Armstrong College class on his autobiography that I just had to take it.

As God used him to do a greater and greater work, many people encouraged Mr. Armstrong to write a book about his experiences. He declined for a long time, however, because he did not want it to come across as vanity—and he had a lot of other things to do. But as he grew older, he changed his mind, seeing that his autobiography could help other people.

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Posted by Philip Nice

Hey guys, just checking to see if you’ve got Feast fever yet. You do? Good; so do I! I am really glad we’ve been hearing messages about preparing for it, or it would have totally snuck up on me.  I can’t believe we have just one week until the fall festival season begins! I hope your mind is already there as you plan ahead for each of these feast days. I’m going to Belgium—my first time overseas, or out of the country, really—and I’m looking forward to two things: meeting brethren from different countries and learning all about the histories and cultures of European countries. And fine cheeses! And Belgian waffles! And all manner of Belgian pastries and pastry-related things! And ….

Well, how about you, then? Where are you going this year, and what two things—or three, or four …—are you looking forward to? Post your Feast fever responses to Comments; I want to hear all about it!

By Rick Breth

“To be, or not to be.” That is, of course, a line from William Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet.

I just need to insert two words right here: “To be on time, or not to be, that is the question.”

Oh, I know. You’ve heard it so many times before. Over and over, probably. But just hang on a minute and keep reading. There is a reason you keep hearing about being on time!

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By Carl Hilliker

It’s not what you think!

Michael Jordan is perhaps the greatest basketball player of all time. Certainly he was the greatest player for the last 10 years, until his retirement.

What made Michael Jordan so great?

There are a lot of things. But the answer I am about to give will most likely surprise you.

Michael Jordan became a great basketball player because of government! That’s right! Government!

What do I mean? Let me explain.

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by Deepika Azariah

This past Sunday, Mr. Wayne Turgeon took his Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ freshman class on a field trip to the Oklahoma Museum of Art. An exhibition of Roman Art from the Louvre at the museum is on its third and final stop in America.The freshman class—along with Mr. Turgeon, two juniors, one graduate and one local teen—spent over three hours studying 184 artifacts of Roman life and culture which included full-sized sculptures, jewelry, mosaics, maps, manuscripts, timelines and more. Two online students, Aunt Bonnie & Granny Pat, drove all the way from Texas to be a part of this class trip. They were welcomed enthusiastically by the college students and left with plenty of hugs.

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By Lauren Eames

“I can’t do it,” I told myself.

Sitting in class at school one day, I was greatly excited to be picked as part of an extension maths program. The teacher gave me several papers to complete.  They had to be completed and handed in for marking by a certain date.

When I got the assignment, I was determined to achieve an “excellence” award for it, the highest mark possible.  But now, with under 24 hours until the maths assignment was due to be handed in, I wasn’t even nearly finished with the papers I had to do.  The goal I had previously set myself now looked impossible.  The time to finish this math project was fast running out.

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By Rick Breth

Just the other day, I was working on a fire sprinkler system installation in a new building. We had just filled the piping with water for the first time, and I found a small leak.

It was just a puddle about the size of my hand.

“No big deal,” I thought.

So I went and got a ladder and a flashlight for further investigation. I climbed up the ladder and began to examine the piping to see exactly what was leaking.

I found that the threads on a 1-inch pipe were leaking right at a fitting. Apparently the fitting was not tight enough. So I wiped away the water and watched to see how quickly it was leaking, and—SPLAT—another drop of water hit my hard hat from above.

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Hey Teens,

Only four more weeks until the Feast of Tabernacles 2008! We’ve posted a new banner (designed by Ivory Vendig) for the site to get you in the Feast mood, just in case the change in weather hasn’t done that already. With the countdown clock on the side, you can let your family know how long until the Feast—to the second!

TE Staff

By Adar Kielczewski

I should have posted this yesterday. It was yesterday, 9/11, seven years ago—wow! has it really been that long?—that was such a turning point in the world. It’s funny, to be honest, I didn’t care much about the world and what was going on before that day. Things happened, but it didn’t seem like anything would happen to the U.S. I knew major global events would eventually occur, but that was far off, wasn’t it? And besides, I was teen—how would it affect me personally?

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