Tis the Season of Finals

Well for some of us finals are upon us and that means a lot of fun and a lot of work. Finals bring headaches, long nights, hours upon studying material, and no life for a week. Leaving the testing center totally exhausted you look at the screen and you either see the grade you were expecting or a big reality check you had no idea what you were doing in there. For me I hope I can look at that screen and see the grade I was hoping for. The countless hours in the library, in the classroom, come down to this one test that has everything in the balance. For those who are done with school and finals look at us taking them and pity and if you have no heart laugh at us because you are now finished. We in college look up to you who are done and wish we can skip the next few years and be in the work place. But alas college is where we are and we cannot change that, neither can we change our grade but we are the ones that hold all of the cards.

As for me I need a strong showing in all of my classes. Especially in my accounting class where I need at least a 90% to get my B+, that means out of my 36, 250 point final I can miss only three questions...sounds easy huh? Well it is not, but like I said earlier I hold all the cards. Geography...ah yes geography one of my least favorite classes. Our final is 100 points with two essay questions each worth 50 points. Humanities is part comprehensive but I am not too worried about this final I love my humanities class so I will dominate this final. Same with New Testament, I have a greater appreciation of the Gospels and what Jesus taught in those sacred versus, and chapters. My Information Systems final will once be again definition based and hard. We need to know well over 150 definitions. Which to some of you may seem not very many, but as you can tell from reading my Blog I do not have the best grammar skills let alone a big vocabulary. All in all this semester has been fun my highest grade will probably be an A in both Humanities and New Testament. I should get a B+ in Accounting, and hopefully in Information Systems as well if the cookie crumbles the right way. Finally a B in Geography a solid B at that though which is fine for me.

Please those who are done with school and do not have to worry about finals anymore think of us who do and remember us in your prayers. Even though you may be done there are those behind you that need all the help we can get just like how you pleaded for help from those who were older than you. God bless you all.

3 Years

Today November 2nd is my 3 year mark of entering the Missionary Training Center (MTC). I cannot believe that I have almost hit a year of being home. With hitting a year, it has helped me reflect over this past year. I have done an entire semester at JCCC, finishing up my 2nd semester at BYU. As someone has told me every year after my mission is the best year of my life. The question I ask myself is this: was this year better than the 2 years of my mission?

School?

Alright I have been messing around with next semesters schedule even though I cannot apply for classes until November 7th. I am taking a busy schedule and hopefully will have enough time for everything that I want and need to do. I have scheduled a religion class but if school starts kicking my trash then I will be dropping that class and just working on school. The classes I am taking are Accounting 200 with Nemrow, Humanities 202 with Parry, Math 119 with Robertson, ISYS 202 with Hansen, and New Testament 212 with Parker (he is the man). Three of those classes are prerequisites for various majors within the Marriott school. Also the best thing ever invented is ratemyprofessor.com I am just saying it is pretty amazing and has helped me pick teachers I think will work best with my personality and skills.

School is going well, I took a NT quiz today and rocked that mug. I also am doing well in all of my classes with high B's and even the occasional A. Things are looking up and I am loving life.

Danté

Well a few weeks ago Scott decided that he needed to have more fun in his life so he bought a dog. When we moved in the landlord told us no pets ESPECIALLY NO DOGS!! When I walked into my bathroom one day after a long day of school and saw dog food and the bathroom smelled like pee i knew something was up. Scott's dog is Danté and he is a cute little thing but he pees everywhere and craps everywhere as well. I cannot wait for our landlord to find out and yell at Scott. Also Scott just leaves his dog at our house and expects us to take care of it while he is with his girlfriend or off doing whatever Scott does during the day. Since he does not work or go to school.

this is me and Danté just chilling one night

Exciting news

A few weeks ago I had to write a paper in my Humanities class over the Greek tragedy Medea. As all of you know I probably have the worst writing skills, as you can tell by reading my blog, but I did take a writing class over the summer and the class has helped me out. I checked my grade on the paper on Friday and I got an 84 out of 100. I was happy and felt good about the whole thing. Today I got my paper back and on my paper it said that if I let her use my paper for future semesters then she will give me 10 extra points on my paper, now I got a 94 out of 100 on my paper. Those things do not happen to me because I am not a strong writer, I was happy that my writing has improved some enough that my teacher is willing to use it for future classes.

More about accounting...

Well I do have a few options with accounting and having that be my degree. I have looked into the program at BYU-Idaho and even emailed the head chair person over the program about the program. He told me that there is no application for the program, here are his exact words

"Thanks for your email. We do not have applications for the BYU-Idaho Accounting Program. If a student is admitted to BYU-Idaho, they can choose whatever major they want. As long as a student gets at least a C- in our courses, they can continue in the program. Our charge is to take ordinary students and help them achieve extraordinary things. To that end, we do not take applications."

I really enjoy that second to last line, take ordinary students and help them achieve extraordinary things. I looked at the website and I need 150 hours before I take the CPA exam so they recommend that their students either get a MAcc or a MBA. I could try and get into the MAcc program at BYU or somewhere else. My other option is to work my butt off and get the grades I need write an amazing essay and get into the program here at BYU and just dominate everything.

I DID IT!!!

Well I decided to be like the rest of my siblings and get a Blog. I like it so far cause I can write on it and just talk about what I am up to. Yesterday I took my accounting test and I felt confident about the whole thing but I got a 56% and I felt like crying when I walked out of the Testing Center. All that I can say is I got a better grade this time than my first test in my other accounting class. I talked to a counselor and she told me I have a small chance of getting into the accounting program. I am retaking an accounting class during the winter and taking an Information Systems (Isys) class as well this winter. I am going to apply for 3 programs in May, the accounting, ISYS, and the management programs and just pray that I get into one of those so I can stay here at BYU. I am working even harder now in my accounting class and just praying that I will receive some mercy and get into the accounting program here.