I love the smell of freshly baked bread What about you?
I know it sounds cliche and all, but I absolutely love them smell of pine trees. There's nothing better than being camping or on a hike and surrounded by that scent. Do you bake bread often?
I don't think that's cliche! It kind of brings me outdoors and helps me feel more relaxed, you know I try to, maybe once every 2 weeks but it takes time :( Do you go camping a lot?
Yeah I totally get that. Cooking alone takes time, and sometimes the time you save to just buy the loaf is worth it. During the school year not as much as I like, just because life gets busy and all. But over the summer I go almost every weekend. Last summer I was able to camp 12 /16 weekend
No way! Do you have any recommendations? I'd love to get out more and go camping
I do! My favorite place locally here to Utah County is hands down Silver Lake. It's up American Fork canyon, and there are places along the dirt road leading up to the trail head that you can just pull off and camp. The hike is probably 6 miles round trip, but totally worth it
Wow, I looked up some pictures and it looks gorgeous. My hometown is right by the ocean so I love just being by the water Is it like a 2-3 day trip or more like a day trip?
Just a one day trip. I know boy scouts sometimes backpack in and then camp by the lake overnight I'm from Southern California, so I feel you on the whole being in the water thing
Maybe I'll try to go for a like a sunday walk or something :) I've always wanted to go to california! I think I'll be going for Thanksgiving
Going up to Silver Lake you turn off by Tibble Fork Reservoir which is also a cool place to go and just enjoy nature. Perfect on a Sunday One time over Thanksgiving I actually drove two girls I met at devotional down who wanted to go to CA but had never been. It was actually a crazy story because they didn't really have plans and thought they could just hitch hike everywhere... haha yeah, they were odd but I guess their trip
Thanks for the suggestion!
turned out ok. I never saw them after that haha Do you bake often?
Haha you reallly had just met them once and then had them over for Thanksgiving? Yeah I try to make something like once a week but I do get busy This last week I made molasses cookies and chocolate chip cookies
Oh no, they didn't stay at my house for Thanksgiving, we just carpooled down to Southern California where I dropped them off at a Greyhound station...sketchy! Molasses are probably on my top three of cookies. What's your favorite?
That's way sketch... My favorite are probably basic chocolate chips to be honest haha but molasses, ginger snaps, and snickerdoodles are also gold though
Have you ever made pizzookies? Like the super warm chocolate chip cookie that you scoop ice cream on top of right after it gets out of the oven?
Wait, that's a thing?? Those sound so good to be honest
Oh it's one of the best things ever. You basically cook a giant cookie, I usually use a pie tin, but you could use a cupcake pan, and then you cook it until it's almost done but still a little gooey. Then you take it out, throw ice cream on it, then eat it ASAP!
Haha you got a whole bunch of good advice! I'll see if I can make it this week! It'll help with all of the midterms I got this week anyways
How many midterms do you have this week?
I did 2 so far and I have 1 left I think
I've got one, and it's for the hardest class I'm in, so I'm feeling a little stressed. But what college kid isn't stressed?!? Holy cow! I feel bad for you!
I actually just took one this morning, and didn't do too hot so now I have to study harder for the final so it replaces the midterm :( That's honestly such a saviour
I think I'm not going to do so hot for my test either, but hey, you got your's done with! What class was it for?
Oh music 101 Just got to get it done for GE's you know Have you got a lot of your general classes done?
GE's are the WORST! Is that the class where you have to memorize tons of different classical music songs? I was lucky and was able to knock out all of my generals in two years, so now I just have classes related to my major.
Haha I feel that! Yeah there's a lot of memorization, but you gotta do what you gotta do My freshman year I took more classes with my major instead of GE's and now I'm paying for it What are you majoring in?
Information systems. It's in the business school and basically is a cross over between computer science and a business degree. What about you?
Yeah I knew some people studying that! I'm doing microbiology That's honestly such a versatile degree. What would you like to do with it?
Right now I'm actually starting the data analytics track in their integrated masters program. So maybe work with data to help forecast things for businesses?
Wow that's really interesting! Why do you want to pursue that?
To be honest, it just kind of fell in my lap. I thought I wanted to do accounting, and then realized it was lame. So then I decided to try IS, and I liked it! But I'm not a strong programmer, and the whole cyber security thing isn't very fun to me, so that's why I picked analytics. What do you want to do with microbiology?
Haha accounting is lame! There is no chance that I'd do well at it Kind of like you, it fell in my lap and I got a microbiology internship and I realized that I really liked it I don't really think I'll go to medical school, but I love the idea of going into  work with a medical standpoint
What did you do for your internship?