As I reflected on what to write about this week, I could not seem to get my mind off of college. Yes, Im sure everyone feels the same way right now, but I decided I would try to be useful with these unproductive thoughts. Basically, the college process is parallel to Aquinas' views of heaven and God. Aquinas claims that human reason cannot disclose to the use of the true nature of God. Baumer says that things that are not objects of sense cannot be comprehended by the human intellect, except in so far as knowledge of them is gathered from the sensibles. This is essentially the same to when we apply to college. We try to compile all the necessary materials to apply to certain colleges, whether it is a good transcript, an outstanding extra curricular sheet, or a phenomenal essay. These are all the objects that we try to gather from the sensibles. We think we know what colleges are looking for, so we try to emulate that in our application. While in reality we really know nothing of the college process. There is no way for us to determine what aspect of our application matter more to any specific college or admissions officer. Therefore we attempt to reason what they will want but there is not true way of knowing. Baumer continues to say that some principles altogether surpass the power of human reason. These are what we call a connection. Human reason tells us that those who are qualified get into the college that they should be in. There is no rhyme indaor reason to why someone who is completely unqualified should get into a specific college. But if they have a connection or an association with the college then that college may admit them without any valid justification. We try to tell ourselves that if you work hard and do well in school that you will get into the college of you choice, but that is not always the case. This idea is what I think creates the largest counterpart in Aquinas' thought. Aquinas argues that if salvation were e