Text Box: Dorm Living News Text Box: Challenges Build You Text Box: Take on a difficult challenge and bring yourself fully to life. Whatever the challenge demands from you, it also gives in even greater measure. For when you step forward to meet a challenge, you connect with the best you have. As you work through the challenge, whatever strength and ability you possess grows even stronger. There is treasure contained in each challenge you face. Your effort and persistence forge the path to that treasure. Text Box: Often you'll work through a difficult challenge only to be met with an even greater one. Rather than curse the unfairness of it all, stop and consider how fortunate you are. For the first challenge has well prepared you for the next. And the next challenge will take you where previously you never could have dared to imagine. As the challenges come, let them build you. And the richness of life grows and grows. Text Box: ~After several “ghostly” speeches this week, several students are keeping wary eyes out for any more unexplainable presences. So far, neither Mary D. or her friends have been spotted around campus this year. ~Bathroom progress is being reported in the ILD. During the day, one can glimpse the beautiful tile that has been laid and see that the massive renovation project is making strides Text Box: everyday. Hopefully ILD residents will be enjoying their new lavatories by Christmas break. Please remember not to enter the bathrooms at any time due to the on-going construction. ~The middle school students celebrated Halloween on Thursday night with a pizza party and treats. They did a fabulous job decorating (and un-decorating!) their dorms for the season. Text Box: This Week in the Dorms