Jacob?
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okay!! you have to type properly part of the rules
oh okay i didn't know so how does this work? did you watch black panther yet?
man! I still haven't gotten around to watching the first part When and where did you watch it?
i watched it on netflix! it just came out wakanda forever
I thought the movie was really good. But don't think Black Panther's powers are very impressive. It was an example of a great movie with good characters, even though the powers were a little underwhelming
true but which superhero's power would you rather have?
Honestly, I'd be happy with being able to go through things Flying and all the other powers are kind of flashy, and realistically, they'd start passing laws to prevent it and you'd get too much attention how about you?
i would love to go invisible not for any bad reasons or anything but I would love to observe animals in the wilk i mean in the wild but i guess wilk works too haha!
yeah I was thinking, I'm pretty sure there are no animals in the wilk.... except all the hungry boys
some of these guys in the wilk be like predators searching for their prey
Yeah invisibility would be good. I guess going through things is kind of similar. I'd just hide in a wall. haha yeah that's true So do you play any sports?
i actually play on the BYU rugby team what about you?
yeah?? That's sweet I love sports and I used to do a lot of it in Highschool but mum told me that I shouldn't play rugby so that I can take care of my body and avoid injury I guess that's kind of stuck to me ever since I've stuck to safe sports ever since
haha yea it can get quite dangerous sometimes but american football is way scarier in my opinion there are so many stories about lasting damage from concussions from player's careers
yeah that's nuts. They're not even paid what do you think about that do you think that collegiate athletes should be paid for what they do? Or at least given a lighter academic load??
I don't think that player's should get paid salaries but have the freedom to explore sponsorships from companies
are they not allowed? didn't know that
nope the ncaa regulations are crazy
wow tell me more
they can't have any benefits basically
lots of detail
a lot of the players from the university of north carolina tar heels football team were suspended for selling their team jordans on ebay the ncaa said that they were earning money off of their "student-athlete" status its pretty crazy
yea??
nuts man
Why are they so strict about everything? I feel like they're too concerned about the appearance of their athelets even though the whole university and coaches rake in million of dollars
its even more crazy cause coaches get paid so much money exactly
Do NFL coaches or uni coaches make mmore money I get the feeling that NCAA coaches probably make just as much
i think I heard that the coach of the alabama football team, nick saban makes around fourteen million a year yea its pretty crazy and coaches can get sponsored as well
what's the reasoning behind that what does NCAA say about it
its because the ncaa says that they are students amatuers they say that school should be their priority when in reality students spend so long practicing and being pressured to perform well for the university and their community, that they rarely ever have time to homework
so what happens with GPA and stuff
its even worse for me on the rugby team because byu puts it under extramural sports
Don't they hide all of that? or get teachers to pass the students
a lot of students take easy classes
wow so you don't get any of the benefits of being an athlete in the first place
and professors may be lenient yea i actually pay to play rugby here its crazy because we are 5 time national champions i feel like we don't get respected at all and not many people know about how dominant the program has been i would say we are arguably more dominant than volleyball
wow sorry if my replies are a little late, I'm reading a textbook at the same time... so when rugby was still a real sport under BYU did the students get any benefits? what is BYU the best at sports wise
its never been an "official" sport but they used to be able to recruit overseas players and it really helped to grow the program and offer them scholarships
so what happened to all the foreign students after it became non-official
all of our coaching staff just left in the middle of the off season without warning and went to coach at uvu which was super annoying there are no more foreign students on scholarships they all work and pay for school
classic but what can they do
not much
so is your current coach even paid?
he's only part time now
but he's still compensated or nah?
yea i think he's still paid but its not nearly as much as other coaches on campus
yeah true There's so much involved in running a University so what's the best rugby team in the States now?
rugby is growing super fast now that there are many teams looking to recruit players
oh wow so it's even harder for BYU to stay competitive is the sport growing here?
teams like saint mary's in california, life unversity in gerogia and cal berkley are all strong teams i hope it grows a lot here in the near future we need as much talent as we can get what textbook are you reading though?
I'm reading a textbook that the teacher wrote for POLI110 it;s about the political history of Utah really good actually
hmm that sounds like a class that I would not enjoy
the teacher really cares about the learning and doesn't really do any of the silly things that some professors do
i am awful at politics
like make students pay crazy money for books that they write themselves and get the royalty money our professor told us that he waived his royalty so that we're only paying for printing costs and he told us all these sites to go to save money
thats awesome that you have a professor like that
whats your favorite class at the moment
what sites did he recommend I feel like i've been spending so much money on textbooks that I don't use that often
yeah I agree!!1 Some classes are actually useful but they're really not cheap It's okay when they're about 50 dollars or so but hundreds of dollars for a textbook is just insane
even that is small kine expensive
umm the websites he recommended were specific to the textbook that we use but there's plenty of alternative sites out there what does small kine mean??
haha its slang for kind of back in hawaii
oh wow are you from Hawaii?? that's so cool
haha no but i live with 4 hawaiian roomamtes so i've caught on where are you from?
I'm from asia wow 4 hawaiian roommate I've probably met around 4 hawaiians in Utah total all play on the football team without fail
what part of asia?! i am part asian too
Hong Kong!!! Have you ever been there
no way!!! i was there lat summer last* my grandparents are from shanghai!
yeah? no way that's pretty sick don't you just miss chinese food I know that the food here is okay, but it's pretty expensive
every single day especially hong kong style pork it literally melts in your mouth do you speak chinese?
I do but it's really getting sloppy I feel like my accent is changing here too I had a pretty lazy english accent before
same here my mom used to take chinese classes every week
yeah?
and I used to be fluent
Isn't she chinese? why did she need to take classes
but now i've lost almsot all of it
or did she teach them
she was born here in the states and when she had me she wanted to teach me chinese so she went to take lessons too
oh wow So did you grow up there in Shanghai or here in the States? sorry there are just so many different people at BYU I can't tell who's from who
here in the states my grandparents are from shanghai but moved to california before having kids
how was growing up here? I imagine that to be a very different life from one you might have had back home
thats the weirdest part because i guess the US is my "home" i had never even been to china before last summer and it was culture shock for sure because everyone "looks" like me but I couldn't communicate with them well
oh wow do you ever feel like you're being judged because you can't speak the language
all the time
like it's almost an expectation and you feel bad for not being able to fulfill it
its crazy
I wonder whether white americans feel that way about being in Europe I'd doub tit
it may be different because many europeans speak english well too
right there's such a high bar for asian people in general high expectations for everything
yea seriously tell me about it
I have class in like 10 minutes so ask me one last big question and I'll type out a huge response and ill ask you one too
okauy sounds good
if you were president of BYU, what would you do to improve the atheltics program while at the same time still consider budget and funding for academic opportunities
wow that is a big question here's my question do you think that the "asian privilege" exist in the us?
Yes! I think asian privaledge is a thing. But not in the way that people would expect. I'd say that stable families, invested parents and low levels of crime are  privaledges
if i were the byu president, i would base the number of scholarships given to the team on how much money it brings in for the school
The essence of "checking your privaledge" is just being grateful I think. But what people forget that asians had to work an awful lot to get to a place of privaledge so it's not like some divine or institutional power grants favorable wishes to asians, they worked hard to put themselves in a place to find success. but that doesn't mean we can't be grateful anymore
so I think that sports like football makes sense to have lots of scholarships but not things like golf the rugby team sells out south field bleachers often and get crowds rivaling the women's soccer team so rugby should be given some number of scholarships as well
hmm makes sense good chat! see you again good luck
yea that was awesome! see you