hello?
Hello!
heyyy hows it going?
Pretty good. How about you?
I am in cloud nine right now because I got my internship that I really wanted for the summer!
Sweet! Congrats to you! What's the internship for?
thank you! the internship is Product Internship
Sounds interesting. :) What are you majoring in?
so I will be working with product managers and User experience Designers to improve and create apps and other digital products I am majoring in Information Technology emphasis in user experience design what about you?
Cool! My brother's going into IT, but he's leaning more towards cybersecurity. I, meanwhile, can crash a computer just by looking at it. So I'm going into Early Childhood Education.
hahahah is he in IT at BYU right now?
Yeah. He just started last summer.
I probably know him ohhh ok so he is a freshy
Yeah. He's only taken a few classes related to his major right now.
ok gotcha. I am going to be a senior in the program so we have a big gap hahaha cyber security is really cool and its a good field but it can be stressful i have a side passion for cyber security though. If I didn't do user experience design I would be doing cyber secrity
Yeah, just a bit of a gap. XD My brother doesn't get stressed about ANYTHING, so I think he'll be able to handle it. Haha there are days when I wonder if he's really a zombie.
hahaha well i hope he will enjoy the major its really a fun major and I love it so much. I am really glad that I chose this major
That's good. :) So far he's seem to enjoy the classes he's taken; he's always been crazy computer man.
good! so what about you what interests you in early childhood development?
A number of things. I love little kids, and I've always enjoyed teaching others. I had an awesome kindergarten teacher, and I want to be able to give the same kind of introduction to education for kids so they learn to love learning
would you consider your kindergaten teacher one of your heros in life?
For sure. She made learning fun, which is definitely not always easy.
so cool! yeah I wish that I learned to love learning when i was younger I wish that I found my skill set earlier
To be fair, technology has changed so much since then that it'd still be quite different. :)
yeah true
So what caught your interest and led you to IT?
So before my mission I was interested in going in to the medical field but I went to San Francisco on my mission and I met so many people in the tech industry and the start up industry and I was like that is what I want to do so after I off the mission I decided to pursue a computer science degree but I soon came to realize that coding was not what I wanted to do and  i sucked at it I had a friend who was doing IT and he told me to take IT101 class and I absolutely loved it That really opened my eyes on what you can do than just coding
That's awesome! Haha yeah, coding can be a pain.
yeah coding is cool but if you suck at it then its not very fun
Amen to that.
what are you up to this week? are you still in high school?
Not too much; just working. I graduated high school a few years ago. But this Saturday my sister, some of her friends, and I are going to do a mission at the Space Center.
oh ok hahah sorry for assuming that you were still in high school almost everyone on here are just graduating what is the space center?
Don't worry about it; I've noticed the same thing. The space center is this immersive experience where you get to be the crew of a spaceship like in Star Trek, and you get to do missions where you have to accomplish things. I've never done it before, but my sister and younger brother volunteer there and LOVE it. So I figured, why not. Plus, I enjoy nerdy stuff, so...
whatttt that is so dope! what the heck I never heard of something like that before is it pretty popular as a business?
I'm not sure; I would imagine so, considering it's been around for a while. It's actually a part of Alpine School District. It's in an elementary school in PG. I think there may be a couple other locations, but I'm not sure.
oh my girlfriend is from pleasant grove she graduated from PG high
Neat! My younger siblings are going to PG high.
oh no way! They probably know my girlfriend's younger brother he goes there too do they play lacrosse by chance?
They don't. They're mostly involved in choir. My little brother does tech competitions, too.
oh wow smart family
Hahaha thanks. I blame it on my dad; he graduated from MIT, so he kinda doomed us all.
hahahaha yeah sorry that sucks sooooo bad MIT curse
Only when we try to get homework help. XD Then it's a lost cause; he goes on every tangent known to man, and even a few that I'm not even sure are a real thing because I can't understand a word he's saying
hahahah what does he do for a living?
He used to work for Intel as a failure analysis engineer (figuring out why microchips didn't work). Now he works at BYU as an electron microscopy specialist. He helps students and professors use the electron microscopes for research.
Intel! so cool! that would be a fun company to work for. and now he has a pretty good gig at BYU
He enjoyed Intel a lot, but the site he was working for started getting phased down to a skeletal crew, so he nope'd out before he could get laid off. He actually doesn't like working for BYU very much. XD
hahaha why not?
A number of things. Too much red tape, the salary is a good deal less than he made with Intel, you'd be amazed at the amount of trouble students and professors cause, he's too used to the business-type environment to really work with the academic side of things. He keeps threatening to find another job, but so far he hasn't really done anything about it.
hey ill be back
ok