hello good morning!
Hey! Good morning back!
anything good happen the past week?
I finally finished my IB testing! Soooo happy.
yay!!! good job! when do you get your results back?
...July So, they shouldn't affect my final grade. No they really shouldn't affect my final grade because I'm not a full IB student
oh gotcha you feel good about them? confident you passed?
Yes? The computer science was going to go really bad because our teacher didn't teach us anything the entire year. I'm pretty sure I did pretty well on the English essays. And the six history essays, I'm thinking I did good on 4 of them, passable on 1, and a lot of wishy-wash on the last one So...pretty well!
did you have to code for the computer science on?
Kind of. We had to do some pseudocode, which is like really simplified code, but it was in Java, and he taught us in Python He said the graders would except Python, but we didn't even learn how to write the pseudocode for a lot of things
oh got cha yeah I code a lot i love to pseudocode hahaha and my friend who is really really really good at pseudo coding got a job at Amazon as a programmer even though he didn't code ever in his life
woah really?
yeah
I always thought that it would be good to learn to code...maybe I just need a better teacher.
that is very important but what will really help is to just teach yourself to be honest and build some apps yourself I hated my CS classes at BYU because the beginning classes taught the basic but it was very fast paced and it was not geared toward people who never coded in their life I felt like they kind of expected you to know but I heard that it got a lot better so you might have a better time than I did. whenever I went to class I didn't listen to the teacher I just watched youtube videos instead about the subject that day
Haha, nice. Well that's good to know...I was kind of debating whether I should try CS again in college.
you should OR I really suggest that you take IT 101 your first semester I have a friend who was a CS major but hated the CS culture and the program because it was really hard for him but he still wanted to work with computers and tech he took IT101 and it changed his life he hated it because he was in the basement of the math building all the time where there was no sunlight and everyone around him were coding and pulling their hairs out and just depressed
Ouch. Yeah, that's one reason I don't want to go into a "coding" major I need to be outside at some point I don't if I'll have time to take it though! *know if
what you mean time to take it?
My parents want me to stay at 14-15 credit hours the first semester and with Mandarin and Bio 130 and English classes I don't have much room left
IT 101 will be the easier 3 credits of your life I PROMISE you do all your work in class basically and you don't have much homework the IT department don't want this intro course to be overwhelming so they made it so that you get a really good idea of what IT offers and entails and you get hands on experience of whats about to come but yeah take it some time in your early college career
I'll put on my mess of a planning table. It sounds like a good class! I just...mrgh I want to take a lot of different classes, but that would mean being at college forever Why do you advise taking it earlier?
taking it earlier means that you will explore early and it might be something that you want to do if you know what you want to do early then you don't waste time and plus the tech world needs IT people right now and its growing like crazy and you will always have a job no matter what
Hm. That's true. But I think have more of an interest in English/editing than tech, even though I want to have some kind of knowledge in the tech area Mrgh, but always having a job is a really good reason
i have a friend who majors in english and minored in IT or is doing that right now yeah guess what the average IT graduate at BYU make 70-90k guarenteed some go about making 120k in different states
....That's a hecking lot of Benjamins Oh, yeah...I can minor in something too, as opposed to double majoring
yupp so theres a lot of incentive and you are a girl right?
Yep
girls will ALWAYS have jobs in this field. you will also be considered more than men because you are a minority in this field
Are you in this major?
my boyfriend is and he's told me a lot about it I am in industrial design and its also tech related. Its about product design and so I also can relate and vouch for that
Gottcha. Well, you have convinced me enough to give it more serious thought, though more for a minor and less for a major possibility
yeah I'm glad I was able to help
Yep! So...what are you majoring in?
I am in Industrial Design
Oh yeah. That's right. I knew that. You're taking the furniture class.
yess good memory
Haha, I remember because I thought it was furniture history and it most definitely wasn't
hahah no its not I was enjoying it early in the class but now I am just like whatever its not super interesting, the work we are doing is ok i think its mostly because I am doing another project on my own doing sustainable design withe HDPE plastics. I am going to recycle them and melt them down in to rock climbing holds and I am trying to start a kickstarter by the end of the summer and if that goes well then this guy that I know who is super rich told me that he will help transform it in to a non-profit so I am super excited for it because this is what I have dreamed of
Hm. You have my condolences for the furniture class. But that's super awesome about your project!
thank you!
Something that you really enjoy doing and have the connections and inspiration and the connections
yes! i am very passionate about environmental conservation and this is the road for it
I'm assuming that the project kind of ties into your major...so that's really really cool that you can combine your interests with your major.
yeah it is and I am very grateful for the opportunity what kind of dreams do you have Sailor?
I feel like a lot my dreams are a lot less tangible. I did use to want to be an author, but that kind of died out After NANOWRIMO year 2 In terms of writing, just get some writing out there on the great grand Interweb about the things I believe in. Which kind of happened. For one of my Personal Progress projects, I wrote a story/journal like thing about how my testimony in Christ has grown and I posted it on a writers' site and I got some good reviews from other Mormon girls who said that they were glad people were trying to get our beliefs out there.
that is so cool! good job!!!1 you can always write on the side and who knows maybe you will get to be a writer someday. I had to really sought out my opportunity with the plastics it didn't just fall on my lap If I was you I would write on the side and keep going and pursue those dreams
Haha. Thanks for the inspiration. I'm just one of those really slow growers. My processes of practice and learning and looking for opportunities go a little slower than normal but I still try to make it happen. There's just a lot problems out there and there are always people raving about how we should be doing something about it and not doing anything about it themselves And my main "dream" is to just be one of those people that does something instead of complaining
yes!!!! action instead idleness no matter how slow your progress is, its still progress and the slow and steady wins the race your will reach success as you consistently work on your dreams no matter what it is
Haha, roger that. You should be majoring in Inspiration Speaking or something *Inspirational Yep. Journey before destination.
hahahaha thanks its just personal experience I am sharing with you! glad I could share it
Hey, that's what we learned in Sunday School! Teaching by experience
oh no way! this chat was probably inspired to be honest!
The beauty of coincedences I mean, I haven't spoken to you since...before prom, if we're going by any major events
when was that? like last week?
May 5th
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haha. Yep. Did you do anything for that?
we just had a taco party with  my friends hahaha
Yeees! Taco parties all the way.
hey Ill be back! getting some lunch
I gotta go. You should have another taco party at some point. Even better, a Navajo taco party