Probably make the decision to take Spring classes haha! How are you doing this lovely Spring/summer day? :)
I know. Why did I do this to myself. I am doing well. How are you? How are classes going?
Pretty well. How many credits are you taking? They are just so reading-dense.
6 Way too many. I just wanted to talk 3
I'm taking 8 :P So I feel ya.
Ugh. That is rough.
But I just keep telling myself that I will survive and just be that much closer to being done and graduated haha :) Optimism, right??
Right! That is what I need to say. I just keep telling myself that I just have a few more weeks and then I can take a break. Are you doing summer ?
We are literally 1/7 of the way through this term/semester already. We're doing great ;)
Right. We're doing great! :)
I'm taking one online class during summer, persuasive writing, but we are moving to Indiana for my husband's internship, so I couldn't do much more than that.
Yeah, don't do it to yourself. Still online can be rough.
That's why I am trying to do just one class :( What about you?
I won't be doing classes. Just working. Thank goodness.
For sure. What is your job like? Is it enjoyable?
I work helping BYU going over expense reports and I work as an RA. Yeah, I like both these jobs.
Hey, I am an RA too! Going over expense reports sounds like a large amount of responsibility, so kuddos to you for being trustworthy !:)
Thank you! What are you an RA for?
It's for a study about emerging adults, so basically I just contact participants that are 18 and 19 and remind them that they actually did sign up for this haha. You?
That is interesting.
It's a job haha :) I do enjoy feeling like I am contributing to something in the long run though. It's a longitudinal study.
I work on research and programming for a HoloLense to figure out the information asymmetry and healthcare with augmented reality. Right, I see it that way too. Contributing. :)
....wow, that sounds really high tech! What's your major?
I want to go into Information Systems.
That is SO cool. I really wish I had a natural affinity to that.
Yeah, It's really complicated to explain. Haha. It's not too bad. I bet you could pick it up. Just some coding and research.
I tried using Code Academy one summer, but I find that my brain's ability to retain the minute details wasn't as great as one would hope.
Yeah, me too. It's rough. Just a lot of repitition and doing your own projects. It kind of gets boring if you just do other people's projects.
But technology development is such an open, expanding field. It is really a smart move for the future to look into that.
Yeah, it really is expanding. Technology is cool as long as we use it as a tool and it doesn't get the better of us.
That is for sure. I keep getting questions on here about AI and computers with feelings, abilities, etc as if they are personified. What is your opinion on AI?
If they ever do get the chance to think and feel then they should be given rights. But, if it is just humans programming them of what to think and feel and act then they do get the right to vote or be given an opinion. But, I don't know if we are going to be getting to that point that soon. In a way, I don't if we can make something that has "life" like we do. But, perhaps. Nothing is impossible, right.
Super weird though, because I just have a hard time imagining an inanimate object with "life". Soooo creepy to think about.
Yeah, right. T They don't have any now. And, the way that I know the Plan of Salvation works kind of confuses me with machines in the mix.
I for sure agree. But luckily I can just be a bystander to all that haha :)
Right - For now ;)
Hahaha, don't freak me out ;)
Haha.
I am just grateful we have technology. I can't even imagine doing homework how our parents did. I think it takes a lot of time now, but I can't imagine how long my assignments would have taken with internet access to articles.
Right. I actually remember when I was first introduced to the computer when I was in elementary school. I had written out all my reports before that day and then I was to write them on the computer and save them to a floppy disk. I think it is so funny that I used those. Just in my lifetime computers have changed so much.
A floppy disk, really? Were you a 90s kid? Or are you older (if I'm allowed to ask that) haha.
You can't even use floppy disks at all now. Yeah, I was Well, born in the 90's My family might have been late to catch on, still don't have the newest gadgets. Well, I do. Just my parents never cared to. And, floppy disks worked.
I just personally have never used one, but I know my dad did and I know how they work, etc. I honestly can't remember when I first used a computer.
Young enough? Yeah, it took me years to use one for some reason. Just never needed to. Funny 'cause now I'm going into computers.
That is so interesting. I mean, I remember what my parent's lives were with super basic cell phones, and now look at where we are. Technology is moving so fast.
Right, just in our lifetimes it's moved so fast. Crazy
Someone asked the other day in a class what our kids are going to grow up with that we didn't. A lot of people brought up that kids now will grow up with technology-obsessed parents
Yeah. Sad in a way, but true. We all need to loose our technology and appreciate the world around us. Balance in everything
I agree. And it hard to say what I will do as a parent. It's easy to point fingers and pass judgement but until we are in that position, we really can't give our two bits
Right. It really is. I'm scared for when I'm a parent and how I'll parent.
I agree. There is so much pressure to do it well.
Right.
I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me today! It really is such a beautiful day outside.
It really is. We all need more sun. Makes us happier.
Someone was explaining to me that we don't GET Vitamin D from the sun, but that it enables the process for us to naturally create Vitamin D inside us?
Yeah, my mom was telling me that the other day. She said I needed to be outside a lot more and that I needed to take vitamins.
Haha, I totally sound like a buzzkill, but did you know that there isn't any research that actually shows vitamins helping? Unless you have a deficiency in a specific one?
Oh... maybe I should tell me mom. Haha. Helps me though. I haven't been taking the vitamins... I should just go outside. Too bad, I have to study and work inside all the time.
RIGHT? Like, we get these lectures about not being active or outside enough, and it's like, "I'm working so I can keep going to school like society expects of me." hahaha
Society is just never satisfied. We've just got to learn to be happy with ourselves. Something that I've got to keep reminding myself.
It is something so easy to say, but definitely harder to internalize. I'm sure we would all be happier if we just did not give a penny what other's thought.
Right. So true. I want to remember this and try to remind myself, but yeah. So hard to do. WE just don't want to disappoint those around us or make it seem that we are incapable in front of others. But, yeah what would a world be if we didn't do this. Too bad it is so ingrained in our societies.
For sure. sometimes feel whoops, let me finish that thought Sometimes I feel like we are so obsessed with not "sticking out" for being different, that we almost make ourselves stick out more? If that makes sense.
Because we all want to be the same so we can fit in, but we all say we want to be different and unique is good. Yeah, that makes sense. It is an interesting thought.
Hmm, what should we discuss now?
I'll find a prompt. Would you rather be the most popular kid in school or the smartest kid in school? Smartest, duh
For sure smartest. Popularity sounds exhausting.
Right. I'm exhausted with the friends I have and family. ;) Love meeting new people, but I like having deep relationships too.
I agree. I think the more people you have in your social circle, the more superficial your relationships are with them.
Right. Here is a fun question. Would you rather be granted three wishes of your choice in ten years or be granted one today? And what would they be? If you want to share.
Oh man. I think I would save them for 10 years from now. One, because I would have 3 to work with, and two, because our little family just has 2 people in it. In 10 years, we will have kids, and I imagine I will have more things and perspectives to work with and want help with. What about you?
Yeah, I think I'd wait too. Now, I'd wish for school and money and such, but yeah in 10 years who knows what I would need and I like knowing that in 10 years I will have those wishes if everything doesn't go well.
I agree.
Here is another interesting question: do you read reviews about a movie before deciding whether to watch it or not?
I do not read reviews from Rotten Tomato and IMDB and stuff, but my husband will check it. I more go by what friends and family say (word of mouth) or just decide that if I am interested or not based off of what previews tell me. What about you?
I watch the trailer and decide from that. That is pretty much all. If the trailer looks boring or tells everything yeah. Also, I listen to what people say. What have you seen recently you've liked?
So I watched this movie the other day with my husband that had The Rock in it. I don't normally really like him, I think he's really blown out of proportion popularity-wise.
He really is.
But it was about him as a Juvenile Detention worker and how he started a football team with the teenagers there, and how he helped them turn their lives around despite all the odds being against them.
Honestly, I didn't really know who he was until last year.
It was one of those feel-good sports movies, but it really has made me think about how much one's socioeconomic upbringing. It seems so unfair at times.
Sounds like a sweet movie. Yeah, it does.
What good movies have you seen lately?
I saw Avengers. I can't think what movies I've seen. I've been watching these TV shows with my friend. Do you know of "The Good Place"?
No I don't, but I have heard of it. I recently started watching Madam Secretary and am addicted. Also, This is Us. But I just really need Season 3 to start.
Oh. I've seen that. What is it about? I'll look into that.
Madam Secretary? Basically this ex-CIA worker who becomes the Secretary of State through crazy circumstances. I'm not too far in, but it has just the right amount of everythin g to make it a good show
Yeah Sounds interesting!
And, she has a functional family, which you just do not see anymore on media. Like, her and her husband get along great.
That is great. I like it when I find a good show to watch.
I agree, but then I also waste a lot of time.
Haha. Right. So you've got to find it when you're not in school.
....so never *tears*
Yeah.... guilty pleasures it the evenings ;) Got to do it to... relax. :) Right.
That's super true. We have gotten into the lazy/bad habit of watching it while we eat in the evenings....
But, it is so easy to do. Yeah, I would totally do that too. But, it is a bad habit.
I told my mom once, and she was so disappointed hahaha
Haha. Yeah, my mom would be too. She'd be like, I thought I taught you better. Um.... I need to relax, Mom. ;)
I agree completely haha. My mom purposefully never let us do that. What crazy rules did you have growing up? I mean, crazy could mean unique too :) One of ours was that we had to be back from our friend's houses or back from playing outside by 5 so we could be ready for 5:30 dinner. I didn't like it because my friends always got to stay out later. But now I am grateful because family dinner is super valuable to helping family cohesion.
Right. Let's see. When I little the rule was that when the street light turned on I needed to go home. Never had a watch, but when that happened I knew it was time to go home and go to bed. Family dinner, we had it. My mom always wanted it more than we did, but people got busy and my dad was gone a lot.
That's adorable! I always disliked early bed times (man, why do kids hate sleeping?? We crave it so bad now haha) because during the summer we'd go to bed at 8 and it was stil light and my dad would be out mowing the lawn so I could hear it
But, we did it on a regular basis.