Well, I just watched Dead Poets Society and that was really interesting.
hey nice timing the last guy i was talking to just got off oh i loved that film!!!!
hahaha hey again
it made me cry and few films can do that
I really liked the whole message of you have one life to live and you have to use the time you have very well Yeah I swear I'm like incapable of crying, like ever, but it made me cry Such a dark twist at the end, like I was expecting his parents to catch him in the study and talk him out of not killing himself but noe
yeah it was so sad
It kind of reaffirms my decision to be a doctor, because my life and skills are finite resources, and I want to put them to good use with what time I have been blessed with in this life
woah you are going to be a doctor?
Yes, if everything goes well. I'm really interested in attending baylor university in texas or UCSF, which is one of the top schools in the world. What are your plans?
to become an artificial intelligence engineer if that is what you can call it it is an emerging field
Oh cool this challenge is right up your alley
yeah artificial intelligence may be my job someday
that's really cool. What's your major?
applied and computational mathematics hey want to play would you rather?
Yeah sure
would you rather be 10 minutes late every day to everything for the rest of your life or 20 minutes early?
20 minutes early. If I knew that I was early to everything, I would just bring stuff to do do pass the time. But being late would probably get me fired or limit my career options
yeah that is what i would sya say, yet i manage to somehow end up consistently late to every where i go it is a better idea to be early than you can do stuff like chitchat to pass time
haha absolutely ok ive got one would you rather marry a complete stranger or never be able to marry the one you love?
wait what? do i love the stranger?
You don't know, they're a stranger
well the second one is assuming that i love someone but i dont but if i did love someone it would be a lie to marry someone else i suppose if they were already married though there would be nothing i could do so i would get over it and end up loving the second best so choice number 2
Yeah its a hard one. I would probably go with the stranger
really? Well what if the stranger was someone you couldnt get along with and had major issues with addictions and credit cards at least you could marry the person you love second most love isnt just a one time thing you know!!
Yes but I would be there to help them with their issues and in the end, even if I wasn't happy, I would at least be able to improve someone else's life. And I think it would be more painful to marry the person I love second most because I would constantly think of ways they're different from my ideal and I would never be happy
yeah but that kind of already happens in life
With marrying a stranger, I would go into it knowing the reality that I may never love them, but with the person I love second most I would want the full complete love that I
and how would you ever know what your relationship would be like unless the one you love right now is your fiance
couldn't get Remember this is hypothetical, I've actually never even kissed anyone haha I don't know anything about love
oh me either we have that in common haha
haha yeah. I totally slay at never have I ever though Never held hands with someone never kissed never had a girlfriend
i have held hands but it wasnt that big
haha I feel like there would be so much commitment. And I'm not afraid of commitment, I just don't want to be holding hands with just anybody. I don't want promiscuous hands like what does it even mean? what's the point?
it doesnt really mean much it is just a kind of outward show to other people that you are interested in each othe other kind of like  "he or she is mine"
hahaha well I guess nobody's felt that way about me. I know I'll get married eventually, but it just seems so weird that people younger than me are married.  I can't even fathom that kind of emotional maturity Sorry I'm being kind of a downer
yeah dont be that way just keep trying you cant give up and you have to be confident
would you rather eat chocolate that tastes like poop or poop that tastes like chocolate?
wait what are the health benefits which one actually has all the bacteria in it?
The poop that tastes like chocolate. You will, with surety, get have e coli and you'll have do do a round of antibiotics
ok i will probably do the chocolate i mean the texture and the health benefits would be to bad for eating actual poop especially now that it has been sitting there for like 7 minutes
ooh fun fact about e coli, most people think that diarrhea is the body's natural response to the bacteria , but it's actually coating your intestines and making you incapable of digesting and slowly kill you of starvation and dehydration
oh that is terrible
well I guess not slowly. It only takes about a wekk week That's why taking medication when you have food poisoning all the way through, not just until your symptoms go away is so important because you may be feeling better but the
that would be terrible
bacteria's still there
interesting well the antibiotics kill everything else in the process and that really sucks
well, most advanced antibiotics are geared towards the virus they're fighting, so it's not necessarily like injecting hand sanitizer, but the main concern is a new era of antibiotic resistant bacteria, that has evolved to resist the drugs we use to make them ineffective
yeah that is not a good sign
So doctors have to find other ways Yeah not good at all. Have you seen the movie contagion?
no but it sounds good what is it about? do you remember? hey hold on a sec i need to get a drink from the drinking fountain
Yeah its a movie about a very realistic virus that has an incubation period of like 1 day so it spreads really quickly and it kills like a third of the world population and they hired a ton of consulting epidemiologists to make it as realistic as possible and it was stunning to see how ill prepared and dumb people were and there was this conspiracy theorist guy who said that the entire disease was created by pharmacutical companies to make money off of the treatment distributed by the government
ok i am back so it is a movie or real?
and there were like raids and kidnappings and it was all really dramatic just a movie. fiction. but very realistic fiction. It's estimated that the bird flu of 1918 killed 50 million people worldwide, and today with how much travel people do and an even more worldwide economy, theres no doubt that a similar virus would do exorbitant amounts of damage. Scary stuff Jeez I'm being a downer again
wow that would be really bad so are you saying it would kill more this time?
absolutely. especially if it had a short incubation time, people would pass the virus on before even knowing they had it. I'm a bit of a pessimistic person, can you tell? I'm trying to work on it. But at the same time it's just so fascinating to me
you sound like eeyore just a bit but i think you are fine it is all interesting stuff to listen to i am not big into viruses but they are definitely a real threat i have a really strong immune system so i rarely get sick
Same me too! Its so nice. It makes me so frustrated when I see parents who are super germaphobes and they don't let their kids get dirty or anything because I'm like you're making your kid even more sick!! aggh OH. And anti-vaxxers just get me going
yeah germs are a good thing yeah vaccines are the real solution i had a class mate that wrote about anti-vaxxers and why he was against
YES. You wouldn't be able to consume food without germs!!
it
Oh my goodness what did he say?
he proposed a anti vaccination tax to recover the money lost to those hospitalized because the virus is spreading rampant and mutating among anti vaxxers
Ooh I thought you meant you had a classmate that was an anti vaxxer and he was writing he believed that
oh hahaha
Yeah his proposal makes sense. I mean, if someone is allowed to choose to make themselves more likely to get sick, why are they allowed to drain their insurance companies and federal money?
yeah seriously
But at the same time, you could argue the same thing for brain dead people and drug addicts who could also be considered "drains on the system".
yeah people want to tell the government to regulate less on vices but put more emphasis on free health care that just make people more likely to do crazy stupid stuff
I think what people forget is the actual humanity of the health care system. Like, these are real life people, and we're all just trying to live. I have a hard time empathizing with people who make poor decisions like that
yeah
but I have to remember that I can't deny them of their desire to live just because they make mistakes that affect them in real lif life.
yeah but we could do more to crack down on or discourage vices
True, but I think prohibition was a complete mistake.
yeah maybe what is your opinion?
Heavenly father created the opportunity to sin by making us mortal and fallible, so we can't completely shut those doors, because that's what satan wanted By giving us more resources and time and wealth more than any other time in history, He has allowed us to grow spiritually more than any other era but those resources can be used to purchase alcohol and drugs, and to watch porn and waste our time.
yeah
And people will find a way to get drugs and alcohol, they're not too hard to make, so I'd rather that they do it in a regulated way that's taxed than drinking moonshine and having methanol blindness
yeah
But that's just my opinion, and my mom REALLY disagrees with me.
we should just really heavily tax it then
Yes absolutely. Like cigarrettes.
yeah where are you from?
Well I lived almost all my life in Portland, Oregon, but I moved to Gilbert, Arizona my senior year
oh thats kind of diappointing
haha why?
that kind of what happened to my younger brother because your senior year was spent with all unfamiliar people who already had their friend groups were they accepting?
Yeah it was hard at first but I actually had a better time in gilbert than most of my high school years in portland.
really? What makes you say that?
I was the mascot for all of high school, but in gilbert I got to actually be in student council and I spoke at graduation
oh wow that is a fast turn aroung! were you valedictorian?
I did a lot of the things that I think contributed to helping me get into BYU Haha heck no. My school was extremely affluent and I had a 3.6 and I was ranked like, 77th in the class wait I meant 277th
yeah 77th isn't that bad
haha no that would have been like a 4.2 at that school It was an interesting transition, because my school in oregon was very very poor and had a lot of low income families and our sports teams sucked so the only way to stand out and excel was take ap classes so I took a lot, but at my arizona school we had the best jazz band, orchestra, choir, dance, marching band in the state, so it was different going to a school where we actually won stuff And the dance program was really good. I do dance, by the way. Ballroom and ballet
wow that is awesome! i am doing ballroom next semester but as a beginner yeah i have to admit my highschool wasn't the best either
Thats great! It really helps with coordination and you can slay at social dances Where are you from?
i am from las vegas
I am very sorry to say this, and I hope you don't take offense, but I really don't like las vegas do you like it?
it is really hot i moved away to utah so i dont take offense why dont you like it?
If i have to describe it in one word, its sleazy I really hate places that reflect the mass consumerism that engulfs people today, and las vegas is one of those places it just grosses me out sorry
yeah that is the strip i lived in NORTH las vegas different place entirely haha
yeah I only really have experience with the strip so I wouldn't know how the other parts are Have you read the goldfinch?
no what is that? yeah the strip is not a place i want to be the casinos are ok if you just park in the parking garage and then go to the mall on the inside and maybe stop at the theatre to watch a movie every casino comes with a cinema and they are all really nice
Its a book by donna tartt and its partially set in nevada, a few minutes outside of las vegas. That has also influenced my perception, and is one of the reasons why I don't like las vegas but movies are great so I'll applaud that
yeah there is a temple there i suppose it balances out all the sleaze
Well I guess that's good
Hey i have to transition to my phone is that ok?
You can do that? Yeah yeah its ok
yeah just open a new window