Hi how are you!
Hi, Im good! How has your day been so far?
Its been wonderful how has yours been?
Mine has been pretty good too! What do you like to do in your free time
I like to play musical instruments. I play the piano, I sing, and I play the guitar. What about you. Do you play any musical instruments?
Wow! That's so cool! I love the piano, I don't play but I think it's beautiful. I love to sing!! When I was younger, I played the clarinet, but I didn't enjoy it very much
Oh awesome what do you usually sing? My music teacher last semester was a professor of the clarinet. I took music 101 from him.
Haha I just like to jam out in the car, and sing church hymns. That's so cool!!
are you going to byu?
I am! I am an incoming freshman this fall! I'm super stoked! BYU has been my dream school since I was little
Oh wow that is so awesome! I am actually a student here!
That's so cool! How long have you been at BYU What do you study? I'm not quite sure what I want to study, but I have a few things I am definitely interested in
I am studying applied and computational mathematics with an emphasis in business it is in the general catch all of mathematics What do you plan to study?
That's so cool!! I plan on maybe linguistics....and I have thought about becoming a foreign language teacher I'm not certain though. It's so hard to choose and decide
Oh wow that is really cool
Thanks!!
Are you going on a mission at all? Maybe you can learn another language when you go
I have thought about it, but I won't be old enough until I have a year of school done. That would be so cool if I could learn another language!! I would love to become at least bilingual
Do you know any of a second language yet?
I took four years of spanish, however it's been a year since I've taken a class, so I would definitely need some review I love spanish, and there are so many spanish speaking peoples in our country, and so I think that it would be very beneficial to become fluent eventually
Oh that is awesome I speak a little spanish I took two years in high school
That's cool!! Did you like it
yeah i like the language unfortunately I didnt like my teachers very much they werent very inspiring
Oh darn, having teachers like that is hard, and makes the class not as fun
yeah
I have had 4 spanish teachers, and I really liked 3 out of 4 of them So what are your favorite foods
She was always scolding other students and never really teaching. I liked my second teacher even if she was a bit odd. I never got the spanish teacher that i wanted to get he was way cooler and a great guy Served his mission speaking spanish
Haha yeah 2 out of four of my teachers served missions as well! That stinks, teachers can sometimes make or break a class
Oh wow that is awesome! yeah i believe
Haha yeah!
most of my math teachers have been absolutely amazing I can only remember one that i didn't get along with
That's nice! see, I have had really bad luck with math teachers. I fell like I have only had two really good math teachers my whole life Wow thats impressive
really? wow what were the bad ones like?
They just didn't teach us; they expected us to know everything. Or they taught in a way that was confusing for everyone My precalc teacher was pretty cool I liked him
Some of my teachers probably matched that description
Haha yeah sadly a lot of teachers I know match that description
The one i didn't like didn't let me do math without showing work hahaha
Oh yeah I know several math teachers like that
I kind of just got a lot of the math so i didn't struggle with stuff like that
i think Showing your work is important ohhhhh i see, that's nice
I think it is important to show your work when it is a complicated problem not when you are doing 2
Yeah that's true too
2 + 2
Haha yeah well you can't show your work for 2 plus 2 can you?
which is ridiculous and annoying
haha i agree What's your favorite topic in math?
teachers only really want you to show work so that you can prove that you actually were the one who solved the problem and that you didnt cheat I like algebra and calculus not trig though
Yeah, and it also shows that you understand the process to get the answer
yeah
That's cool!
but if you get the answers right all the time you obviously must understand the process
I haven't taken calculus yet, only precalculus Haha well yeah
it is 100 times harder to accidentally get the right answer in math than in most other subjects
That is true Haha yeah that's very true
Answers just don't come out of thin air unless you honestly did copy someone Now when you get further into math you reach a point where you have to show work but it is different
Yeah, I get that
it is called writing a proof and is much much more meaningful and I don't have a problem doing those.
Haha yeah I remember doing those in geometry
It is like a way to fight off the skeptics of your methods.
Haha yeah
I hope I can get into the artificial intelligence industry it seems very promising
that would be pretty cool! And super interesting!! so do you have any siblings?
yeah i have four siblings my sister just graduate with her masters I am going to a small barbecue with her today to celebrate. It is kind of a family thing.
Me too!! That's exciting!!!
What  about you do you have siblings? oh wait you have four siblings?
Yeah I have four siblings two brothers and two sisters They are all older than I am though That's pretty cool that your sister just got a master, what did she get her degree in I have to get going here soon, but it was so nice to chat with you! Have a great day!