Is this a troll? I've had a ton of people start chats and then not participate.
nah i'm here and same lol
Yay! :) A new person. How's your day been going??
pretty good! i got to leave school early because i had an ap exam this morning so at least i got to come home early lol
Oh that's exciting! Are you still a high school student? What AP test? Oh the memories haha.
yeah! and i took ap lit what year are you in school?
I'm a Junior at BYU: ) I took AP Lang, but not Lit in high school.
cool! most of the people i've talked to on here are incoming freshman too, so it's nice to see someone who kinda has the hang of byu! :)
Oh, yeah, you'll get the hang of it after your first semester here :) The first semester is a huge learning curve, but you get the hang of it completely after that. When this chat thing started, I mostly got incoming Freshmen, but now I only get RMs haha. I just do this while I'm bored in class or work haha!
hahahaha that's funny
So what are your academic goals for BYU?
oh gosh. i wish i knew lol. i'm still undecided. what's your major?
I started out undecided too haha. Are you a boy or a girl? I can't tell. Haha. I'm studying Human Development :) It is part of the School of Family Life, sometimes referred to as the "Mom Major". Do you have a knack for anything in particular? Or just going to take GEs until you feel something?
I'm a girl. and that's cool! and yeah, until i decide my major i'll just take typical classes, see what i like, then go from there i like sociology a lot, but i don't know what i'd do with that you know?
That's how I always feel! I like certain things, but how do I make a career out of it? That's why my husband is going to be a doctor, and I'm going to be a mom haha. We all win. Hey, suggestion>.... Take Intro to Sociology (I think it's SOC 111) from Curtis Child. He is AMAZING and HILARIOUS. Best class I've taken.
thanks for the tip! i really can take all the advice i can get lol. ok question. did you move far to go to byu or did you live sorta near campus?
I lived south of campus and that was nice. I was enough away that I didn't feel like I was automatically pinned as a Freshman, but close enough I could walk everywhere. Seriously, any questions you have, I'd LOVE to help :) Or did you mean where I originally am from? I'm from Utah, but I had to move because my parents lived 30 minutes away Plus, I was an RM when I started, so being almost 21 I didn't want to live with my fam haha
I feel that hahaha. I'm staying in heritage, but i honestly have no idea where that is lol. and where did you serve?
So that's just north of campus, but technically on campus. So you'll be 10 minutes tops walking onto campus :) I served in Mexico :)
ok great! and that's cool my brother served there too from 2013-2015!
Do you know what mission? I was in Cancun from 2014-2016. There are 35 missions haha :)
he was in Monterrey, but that' s cool that you got to learn a language!
Yeah, I got to learn two! I learned Mayan and Spanish :) And Monterrey is awesome! We were just on opposite (north south) parts of Mexico! When do you sign up for classes? What classes are you hoping to take?
i think it's june 6
Oh, that's coming up!
yeah, hopefully i'll figure out my major soon after fingers crossed lol
Hey, no rush at all! It took me a year, but I'm still graduating in only 3 years :) It's a time to experiment with a lot of resources!
nice! that's great! yeah i'm super stoked!
Do you know for sure what you DON'T want to do/study? Like, I personally don't like math or science
for sure no math or science hahahaha same
Oh my life. It's so hard here hahaha.
yeah i'm not great with numbers so i'll take a pass on that lol
i couldnt agree more
i'm so pumped to move to utah though! it'll be something new and a whole lot different than home but still good!
It's so nice to have a change and fresh start. Have you visited campus before? Where are you from? :)
I went to efy last summer and had a blast! and i'm from alabama
Oh, that is so fun! :) So that's good you'll probably know your way around more or less. People would say, when I first got here, "I'll meet you at the ____" and say SWKT or JFSB or whatever and I had no clue what was going on.
oh gosh that's gonna be me hahaha
But they have lots of people with signs that say "Need help finding your class?" so they'll help you haha ;)
thank goodness i'll need it lol
What classes do you wanna take this first go around? I mean, you sound like a smart one, so you probably have knocked some GEs off already.
that's something i'm actually trying to figure out lol. i'm taking a class this summer at my local community college,  but i'm trying to decide what to take
Isn't it overwhelming how many choices there are?
oh goodness yes. my only problem is trying to choose a class that will transfer
BYU is sooooo picky. Are you just wanting to do it to kill time before you move to Utah?
well i was able to get a free class there this summer, so i want to go ahead and get a class out of the way before this fall one less thing i have to do ya know?
Oh, that's brilliant. You are going to excel here if you're already so prepared for your future haha :) Super good idea.
hahaha i hope so!
Anything else fun planned for today? Do you have any other AP tests you've had to take or will take before finishing school?
i still have ap gov, computer science, and bio to take, but after that i'm done! :)
Oh wow, that is so many!! I wish you luck with all those. I remember my Sr. year I had AP Stats and AP Lang tests back to back on the same day in May and I was worthless after that haha. My brain was just mush
oh dang that sucks. i was really lucky that all my aps didn't fall on the same day hahaha
That is super lucky, especially with how many you have!
don't know what i would've done hahaha\ well i have to go because i have to go to work, but it was super nice talking to you! thanks for all of the advice, it was very helpful!