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The Insufficiency of Striving; The Sufficiency of Grace
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The Insufficiency of Striving; The Sufficiency of Grace

March 21, 2022 | By Maddie Soule PC ‘25

In the thick of my second, and definitively more challenging, semester at Yale, I am becoming increasingly more aware of the temptation to run on autopilot—to exist in a sort of survival mode, doing what needs to be done without paying much attention to anything else. […] After a few weeks of trying not to fall into bad academic habits, I realized I had instead fallen into a detrimental lack of rest, release, and joy.

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