Well everyone, I have officially been a student at BYU for 2 weeks. It is awesome. After Christmas break was over I headed back to Provo and with the help of Riley (W) found all of my classes for the next few days. I'm glad I had someone show me around or the first day would have been scary. Here is my schedule: Wake up and work from 8-12 everyday. Then I head to school, I haven't figured out whether walking or driving is best. What I do know is the stairs by the Richards building are like death and I refuse to walk up them. But me protesting the stairs looks silly and I end up walking, or should I say, crawling up the stairs with a 50 pound backpack anyway.
On Tuesdays/Thursdays I have Political Science 110 which is required for my major. I have Quin Monson and he is excellent, keeps you engaged and interested for the most part. I have started reading the New York times as that is what the quizzes are based off. Then I go to Marriage Prep taught by Jason Carroll. He is easily the best teacher I've ever had and I love this class. Not only is it a good time to take this class but I can use it if I decide to minor in Family Life (which just might happen)! This class ends at 5:15 so I usually study for a bit and then head home. On Monday I have LDS Marriage and Family which is the religion version of the above mentioned marriage prep class. It is a little more centered on the gospel rather than research. It's a good class but I wish I had taken a different Religion course... Too late now. Then I got to History 201 taught by Professor Hamblin. This class.... ugh. I don't mind the lectures or the material, but this stupid book report he is making us do is ridiculous. We had to submit the title of a book we'd like to do that met very specific requirements. I chose a biography of Leonardo da Vinci (it had to be about someone born before 1500) but he denied it. So now I'm doing Joan of Arc. Let's hope he approves, because 2 TA's did!On Wednesday nights I have Geography 101. Which I already took at UVU but it didn't transfer.. Luckily I have an adjunct teacher who teaches full time at a middle school. Pretty sure he doesn't change the course material at all. Only problem is it's a two and a half hour class. It's very hard to pay attention! Overall, I'm enjoying my experience and hope the rest of the semester is just as good! For Christmas Riley (S) gave Riley (W) and I ski lift passes to the Canyons! So we went on our day off for the Marin Luther King holiday. We had a wonderful time! Scott and Riley joined us for the day but we were slowing them down on the bunny hill so they took off and did some really fun stuff. It was Riley's first time so we kicked it on the bunny hill for a while but moved up to the bigger stuff after lunch. I had a great day!
For those of you who care, 93 days till April 23rd.... You know what that means!
These pictures were taken with my phone, so excuse the poor quality!
Alli--awesome post and glad you had a good day skiing
ReplyDeleteWow, are you getting married or something? Because you are going to be so prepared! :) I'm glad Riley had fun on his first snowboarding trip! And we'll see you on Thursday for our first soccer game.
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