Howdy, and welcome to the Breakaway podcast. Thanks for listening.

Breakaway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M. For more information,

visit Breakaway Ministries.org. We hope you enjoy the message. Well, the end is near, is it not?

The end is near.

Here's the reality.

At this time, two weeks from now, all finals at Texas A&M University will be completed.

They will be over.

And here's some crazy news.

If you're planning on graduating two and a half weeks from now,

all commencement ceremonies will be complete,

which means that in two and a half weeks,

you will be a former student of Texas A&M University,

which is pretty crazy.

The end is near. Now, let me just tell you this.

As I was thinking back upon my time in college and this time of year, I just was reminded that I really had a love-hate relationship with this time of year in college. And the reason that it was a

love-hate relationship was because in just a matter

of days, I would experience one of the worst feelings within the college experience and also one of

the best feelings, a part of the college experience. The worst feeling, in my opinion, that is associated with the

college experience is the feeling that you're probably feeling right now. Maybe it hasn't hit you

yet. It will hit you next week at this time, but it's the feeling that there are four or five

finals standing between you and summer. I hated that feeling. And if any of the finals were cumulative,

or if there was two finals on one day, it just intensified the feeling. That was one of the worst

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