I should like to tell of how Christian Science helped me as a college student, and I hope that it may be helpful to others who are students. Before I knew anything about this religion, I had taken a college intelligence test, and I had been informed that the results of the examination indicated that I would never be more than an average, or C, student. Not knowing a better way of thinking, I had accepted this statement as final, and for several years regarded myself as having only limited academic ability.
Later, I started graduate work on a master's degree, not realizing at the time of enrollment that only the grades A and B were acceptable for graduate credit. When I did learn of this, I was filled with despair, for I was convinced that I did not have the capacity to earn high grades. Examination days were especially terrifying to me, and yet I did not want to give up.
It was then that a friend spoke to me of Christian Science and lent me her copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I had read only a few pages in the first chapter, entitled "Prayer," when I realized that here was a satisfying concept of God, one that I had been searching for. Not long afterward, I learned that Mind is one of the synonyms of God, and it became clear to me that God's children reflect the qualities of their heavenly Father.
