Hello?
Hi!
Oh, my goodness, a real person. Hallelujah. I was just ghosted five times in a row.
Haha really? That's lame
Yeah, but what do you do about it, right? You know, these servers aren't as active as I'd thought they'd be.
Same, you'd think more people would want in on this
Right? I mean, c'mon. iPads free for the taking. And even if you don't win, it's nice to participate.
How long have you been chatting on here? I'm basically new
Just to say, "You see Eve? Yeah, I helped with that." Oh, really? Um, welcome!
Haha
It's nice to have new chatters. I've been here since last winter.
Oh really? Nice!
They hosted the competition then, too. Yeah, it is! Especially since I got a pair of headphones out of the last contest.
Oooh, nice. Are they like, good headpohnes?
Well, I like them, at any rate. They're Bose headphones.
I would say ipads are definitely a step up from that though
Definitely. Hence why I'm back here for attempt numero dos.
Niice Hey I actually liked that propmt question for once, though. It's better than "what if you woke up and everyone were gone" at least So what IS the best thing that's happened to you this year?
You know? That's a good question. It's been a nice running, I guess, now that we're here in October.
I agree
Lots of good things, lots of good people. I'm kinda surprised by how blessed my life is.
Me too, honestly. It's been a dang good year For me at least
I'm glad. A lot of people I know have had less than stellar yaers. *years
Yeah?
I have a friend who is crazy talented and experienced--only nineteen years old--but got a few things messed up his first two semesters. His GPA is, um, not pretty. For mistakes that I'm not sure he could have avoided given his circumstances and pressures.
Aw, that's the worst
Yeah, he's not happy. He's wondering if he blew his chance to make it into graduate school.
It definitely helps keep things in perspective when you see other people with challenges way worse than what I have going on
Heh, I guess so. What's up with you?
He's thinking about grad school and he's only 19?
Yeah. You have to understand, this guy started doing internships at age 15 or 16. He's already interned at, what, three different tech companies?
Man. That's impressive
No kidding. He's got a lot of reputation built up already.
Which I'm sure makes it even harder to feel like you blew it I mean, everything works out though, right?
That's what I try to tell him.
As long as you're living right
It's all kinda messy, I suppose. He's wondering if it's possible to recover from what he did.
And keep trying
He certainly is. And I guess you just gotta be there for support, right?
Yeah
And then there's another friend of mine who nearly committed suicide over a bad breakup and depression and nasty classes. It . . . really hurt him. He's still not the same man he was.
Gosh That's a lot a lot to deal with all at once
Crazy, right? I mean, I'm okay. I have a good life.
Haha, that's good Me too
I'm just a little stunned to hear about others' lives, you know?
Yeah, I totally know what you mean
You're a computer science major, yeah?
I'm minoring in it
Ooof. Minoring is hard.
How do you know? Does it tell you that?
Nah. Most people on here are computer science related.
Haha, makes sense
Hence why I asked. Why the minor? It's one of the hardest you can get. Not as many classes, but the classes are brutal. You go through, like, three weeder classes. No, wait, 224 isn't required. Two weeder classes, then.
Is it? I hadn't heard that before. I thought about majoring in it, but I decided to apply for the commercial music program instead That's what I'm working on right now
Oh, wow! That sounds so cool! Commercial music program?
I'm getting ready for a piano audition this winter and a portfolio submission
What do you do in that? I take it you're a lot more musically inclined than I am.
Yeah! Basically it's everything in the music industry, all lumped together in one major.
Oof.
They have classes on music business, audio engineering, songwriting, film composing, basically everything
So, you can compose music and stuff? Sight sing? Decompose classical compositions?
And I'm not really sure what direction I want to go with that yet, so I kind of just want to try everything
Hehe, you sound like me.
Haha, yeah. Mm, not so much classical stuff, that's more for composition majors I love writing music though, and the program here is really good for that
So are you into contemporary music, then? More, uh, pop-ish?
I guess so. The songs I write are more that style, but I've also written a couple songs for choir, and some instrumental stuff
I'd actually be really interested in seeing your stuff.
Haha, that's nice of you! I don't have anything "out" per se right now, I've been working on recording a bunch of stuff but nothing's really finished
Nothing published? No clips on the web? No links to websites?
The hope is that I'll be able to do a lot more of that if I make it into the program
Oh, right, you haven't made it in yet. What're the requirements?
Haha, I really really should have stuff out there, but not really You have to make it into the school of music, which is hard in and of itself, so that's what my piano audition is for that I'm preparing for
Wait, so it's like a major that you can only get into if you're in a different major?
And then you have to submit a portfolio of 3 of your own works too apply for the commercial music program No, it's like, you have to get accepted into the School of Music and THEN into the major itself
Eeeee, that seems hard. Especially since everyone here at BYU is crazy musically talented.
It's like the 2nd lowest acceptance rate of any program here, but I'm optimistic, and if it doesn't work out, I'll just do CS :)
Yeesh.
So are you a CS major then?
You've got guts, I'll give you that.
Haha, thanks
I wonder what the number one lowest accepting program is. Animation? Nursing?
It's animation Yeah
OOOF. That's what my friend is going into.
But I mean, if you graduate from that program you've got a serious chance at going to work for disney or pixar or something. So it's worth it, if you're good enough to get in Really? One of the friends you talked about, or a different one?
Different one. It's his first semester here.
That's crazy
I think at one point I'd considered animation, but then I decided I didn't love it enough to try.
He's already in the program? or he's applying
No no, he's applying.
That's intense
No way he's in the program coming in his freshman year. No kidding.
You like drawing, then?
Not much more than doodling. And even then, I get bored. I thought it might be fun to make cartoons, but never seriously.
My little sister is thinking about going for the animation program. She's a junior in high school but she's crazy good at drawing
Similar to how I thought it'd be fun to be a video game tester or something. Oh! I wish her good luck.
Haha, video game tester would be living the dream
I dunno. I THOUGHT it would be, but I suddenly lost my desire to game. I don't really know what happened.
Well, you're probably way busy with other things
That's the thing, though. I used to be, but not right now. I'm not even enrolled in class.
Yeah? What are you up to, then?
The most I have going is a part-time tutoring gig, really. Not much else. Don't know what to think about all the free time I have.
Haha, that sounds pretty nice, honestly I could use some free time
You and every other student, right? If only there was a time-leveraging site where people could sell the time they have for money. "An hour? I'll pay you $15 for it." "No, no, I'll pay you $20! Finals are this week."
Ha. There's days I would pay a lot more than that Haha exactly That would be interesting A supply and demand economy for time
"Ahhhhh, I forgot the deadline. I'll pay $50 for another hour! No failing this class again." It'd be really cool.
Sounds like the premise of a scifi novel
I think it's already been made. Have you seen, um . . . In Time, I think?
Haha really? I'm not surprised Oh wait! Is that the one where they've got those things on their wrists
Yeah! That's the one.
I think I have seen that, actually
I haven't, but I heard my dad talking about it a few years back.
I don't know if I'd want THAT per se, at least not the "if you run out of time you die" part That's cool
Well, considering student life, it's kinda like death when you fail an assignment. Does that count?
Hahahaha Good comparison
Just like my friend . . .
I think they could make a pretty good movie out of that
WHOOPS.
Ooooof
Out of students failing classes? They'd certainly have the material for it, if nothing else.
Hahahaha
But I've totally never failed a test or midterm, nope.
Of course not Psshh who even fails tests
Never gotten a C once. Fails tests? What is this "fail" you speak of?
I don't even know. Probably just a rumor
I've gotten nothing but perfect A's since I was born! Oh, a new feature? I wonder how that'll pan out. Failing sounds kinda fun!
Haha Yeah they thought school didn't have enough pain and despair, so they're stepping it up
Ah, must be part of the new initiative the government is pushing out. "Every child left behind" or something.
Hahahahahahahahaha That's the one
See, I THOUGHT I recognized it.
Hahaha
No, but seriously, it's midterm season. How're you holding up?
Ehhh. I have a research paper due tomorrow night that I haven't started yet. This is my form of procrastinating
Uh, dude. How many pages?
5 So, could be worse It's just for Book of Mormon
"Could be worse." Uh-huh. On what? Just comparisons between symbols or something?
Nah, I have to choose a person from church history or something who gave a witness of the book of mormon and write about their testimony and stuff It's kind of vague
That sounds like a class I may have taken. Bro. Wilcox?
Haha, yep! It's such a good class
Yup! I remember that.
Who did you do your paper on?
I can't remember, to be honest. All I remember was that it was pretty trashy. I loved sitting for his lectures until the first midterm hit.
Hahaha Why's that? Are his midterms hard?
Not "hard," per se, just really detail-oriented over things that don't sound important when he's talking about them.
Huh. Okay, good to know
I didn't realize how much of what he said transferred directly to the test. Yeah. If you can get notes from others, do that. I ended up acing the class, but not without a few stressful nights.
How is it, watching everyone else go through midterms while you're not enrolled in anything?
It's . . . strange.
Haha, tomorrow night might be one of those for me, finishing this paper
Good luck on that, by the way. It shouldn't be too insane.
Yeah, I don't think so. I just need to do it Actually I should really probably get started on that It's been good to talk though
Definitely a good idea. Yeah, it has! Thanks for chatting. I really enjoyed it.
Yeah! Me too. Have a good day!