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Virginia Whealton ’07 is a violin performance major. On an average day, she begins practicing her violin at 8:30 a.m., attends chapel, classes, a violin lesson and a strings lab, and has a meeting with her independent study advisor before catching her roommate for dinner. By 9:30 p.m. she is weary but still hard at work—this time practicing the piano—until finally returning to her townhouse after 10:00. “Fourteen-hour days on campus, mostly spent in the music building and library, are typical,” Virginia says. “I spend much of my day alone, working on long-term projects—broadening my violin technique, learning the Mendelssohn violin concerto, applying to graduate school, researching for an honors project—for which I can make, on any given day, very little progress (in relation to the sometimes crushing immensity of these tasks), and to which any true measure of outcome lies far in the future. I have no guarantee that these long days will eventually materialize in my desired outcomes at all, but I do know that God calls me to faithfulness each day, and that He will be faithful, no matter what the eventual result will be.”

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