Hello Yay. It's not glitching. Now is there anyone there?
Hey
Cool. I see you.
Haha has it been glitching on you a lot lately?
Yes. A lot. It's hard enough to connect with people and the glitch makes it very frustrating Have you had any issues?
Yeah. It's unfortunate they changed it so it's harder to build up those points now Not too recently but of course I have
They were supposed to just eliminate multiple windows
Yeah so you can't have multiple chats But there's still a few like ghost chats
Originally multiple windows and dialogues was not an issue and it accomplished their objectives
Yeah. Now if they need more data I don't think they will get as much because there's only so much you can do in one chat But I don't know maybe they have plenty at this point
One person discovered they could open 50+ windows at a time
Woah Okay well I mean that is kinda overdoing it
They would say two sentences and close quickly
They would still have to connect to somebody though
It gave them a quick 8k points but held everyone else down
How do you know? were you doing it haha
Nope. I was being blocked.
Being blocked? Just having them end the chat on you?
You can tell who was doing it by the unusually large number of chats compared to words Yep
Ohh
Lots of people could manage multiple chats. It's crazy but three to four seemed manageable More than that and there was long lag between responses while the person answered other open chats. They should have limited to three chats at once But the edit did fix the problem. So that's good.
Yeah it is rather annoying when you just want to keep a couple conversations going but you don't get replies back forever
But it created the glitch of not being able to see dialogue Ya. That's true. So if you open multiple windows, you need to be focused and committed to responding timely
Yep. Anyways, what have you been up to?
School classes are in full swing and crushing my time. How about you?
Ooh. Well you got like 4 million ish to go in the next couple days. Gonna make it? You are pretty set in your spot though Let's see, I had an interview this morning. I'm trying to get like two part-time jobs
How did it go? Did you get an offer or second interview
I've been hired at Walmart the other week but I'm supposed to do some background check and they haven't given me any information. Like they were supposed to call me So I have no idea what is going on with that And then I have chartway federal credit union that I had an interview for last week that went pretty good, they just said they would want me longer than the time I am down for the summer
I debated working or taking spring/summer classes
So he said there is like a 30 percent chance of me getting that job just because I couldn't stay long-term Then this morning I had one for goldenwest credit union so I will find out about that one for sure by Wednesday or Thursday
Well. It sounds like both were positive. I understood that it was tough to get a good summer job
Yeah it is. No one wants to spend the time training you when you are just going to leave
Those are great. Are you an accounting or finance major? Ya. I can understand that
Going to apply for the finance program.
That is great!
It kinda stinks. I would go back to my first job maybe if they paid more
My focus is math and music. I don't know of summer jobs to get me exposure to my field professionally What did it pay?
But hey Walmart is probably a somewhat easy one to go back to and they paid better Hmm. Right, well there's tutoring or something?
Walmart can transfer easier
My first job I ended with pay at 8.25
Tutoring really does not pay much. Some roommates chose to sell bug spray services in Texas or home security
And then I had a sales job with a base pay of 17 last summer but I hated it
That's good pay for college student Sales is so hard if it's commision based and bad product or service
Yeah...but it was 17 per appointment I had. And  each appointment was usually like an hour and twenty minutes. I also had to go to team meetings in which I didn't get paid
I am on academic scholarship that will cover summer sessions so I figured saving money is like earning
Yeah that is good haha. My GPA is not quite good enough for an academic scholarship
My parents have an arrangement with me and my siblings called "GPA as a JOB" If I spend 20 hours per week extra on homework like it were a job, then I get $20/ hr
Dangggg So that's 400 from your parents like each week? Or do you do it?
So it is risking burn out to push all your on academics but it helps motivate me to do better and get out of school sooner Which I guess benefits them too
Hmm so how much do your parents help out with paying for things?
Ya. For school costs.  I guess it's better than mowing lawns and paying the bills from that It keeps me on campus. Base tuition only But if I get a scholarship then that money is mine.
Your parents pay base tuition which is like 2500 each semester/ ?
If I get 4.0 I get a $1,000 Bonus.  I don't think they expected I would get 4.0 at BYU Ya and books.
And you pay for all the housing and food and such but you can use their money if you have a scholarship?
Housing, food, clothes and entertainment is on me. Ya
Ah nice
I'm hoping this competition chat time does not hurt my spring GPA
Haha are you thinking it will? It's over in two days So there's plenty of time after to bring it up haha
It was fun until it got so competitive- which is part my fault
But hey how much is that ipad worth? You're like earning money here
I don't have a laptop and thought winning it could be like a job Haha but so did a lot of other people. Some more committed than I Or they don't have summer classes to juggle.
Yeah. It was pretty good when I was in like fourth place but now that I've dropped quite a bit I'm really thinking I need to do this like all day for the next two days haha You know to make it worth it
iPad is worth 600 to 800.
Pretty good
So I am below minimum wage now.
Haha considering all the hours you've put in? Yeah they are getting more data than their prizes are worth I think haha
Yes. But that's okay. I think it's good to help the school and meet people. It's been fun. It's funnier when I am not pushing as hard.
Haha yeah. It is fun to get to know people but it has been time consuming that is for sure
What was your goals or objectives with the challenge
Was or is? I mean to win haha
Haha. Both I guess. But how do you define win?  By their definition or yours?
Above chocolate You?
Will you achieve that.
I sure hope so..
I had to redefine my "win" so that I didn't end a loser if I didn't win the first prize.
Haha yeah
So I am focused on all the other objectives now than going crazy on hours.
All the other objectives?
I went almost 36 hours without taking any real breaks twice.
Like on a weekend?
The little sleep was making me foggy.
Geez
Well. I wasn't skipping church or some other important activities and I didn't want to be the cause of someone else doing it to beat me. Am I making excuses now? :-) I have had some great dialogues and made a couple friendships that I hope will continue this fall when school starts There are a lot of really smart people in this challenge
Haha yeah that is true. I know someone was getting like snapchats which I don't know if that is necessarily allowed to give user names haha
I just met up with a couple at the library and computer labs. It was not hard to see those people stuck in a chat. :-)
Haha oh well I guess that works as well! That's awesome.
Because they will make the chats public, there can't be any private data that could be abused. Which makes good sense to me.
For sure. And there are always secret ways that you can find out who someone is through weird connections
Have you made any good contacts?
Such as your roommates sister as my teaching assistant haha
Ya. True.
Any good contacts? Well not like meeting at the library or anything because I'm not close by But got someone's user name for something using like code words haha
Ya but you're smart and can figure out how to contact the ones you want to Ya. I was not very creative in my screen and user name. Oh well. I usually don't hide well in a crowd anyway -- too tall :-)
Yeah that is kinda cool how you can do that with your first and last name ha Ah you stand out that way? Well yeah makes things easier
It's been great talking with you again. I need to jump off to do something at 9. I hope we connect again. You are a nice person to visit with.
Ah alright. Well then have a great night! You too!