Currently Loving:

These are a few of my favorite things… 
because they occupy my life.

1. Count down paper chains.
2. Skiing in the deep.
3. Mr. President and his day of sorts.
4. Hearts (that my mom willingly cut out for me to decorate my apartment slash sit on my desk? If you're interested?)
5.  Vacuuming. When the vacuum is up for it?
6.  That photo up there.
7.  Making that high-pitched noise, because it's just oh so cute.
8.  Thinking about graduation = too, too far away.
9.  Lady Gaga.  As much as I want to hate her (music), I can't.  It's impeccable. Guilty pleasure? maybe.
10.  The undersized heart-shaped wreath that hangs on the door.  I don't want February to end… because heart-shaped wreaths are only for this month of love?
11.  Kodiak.
12.  Warming my hands on the lamp at my desk, because it's impossible to have warm hands (studying) ever.
13.  Instagram. What's better than something so instant?
14.  Elder Holland's talk on the Missionary Work and the Atonement… because Elder Holland is my favorite and the gospel is omnipresent.

 

The mandatory BYU meal card for all freshmen living on campus is bad.

Mostly because…..

ONE: It’s incredibly expensive.

TWO: It gave me no proper perception of the value of the dollar. In my mind I had an endless supply of money, and in a way I did… I struggled to use all the money left over on my card and no longer viewed it as money, but like a point system. I was always around 80-100 “points”.

THREE: The card, in fact, became my credit card. It was instinctive to pull out my student ID card when at the Movie Theater, mall or any other place. If they didn’t take dining plus, they didn’t get my service.

FOUR: I discovered how to use a vending machine=very dangerous.

FIVE: It has made for addictive habits. Upon arriving at BYU I was overwhelmed by the food selection. As I slowly discovered the new world of food on campus, my diet changed, in an I-need-my-daily-Twix-bar-before-noon-kind-of-way. I loved Twix bars. One time Stover Hall was all out of Twix bars, as was Taylor Hall, I finally found my candy of choice at David John. Later, Kelsie bought me an endless supply of Twix bars; she must have felt bad for my pathetic addiction... she’s so nice. Unfortunately, Twix bars weren’t the only things I came to love. The Skyroom was frequented by me/Andrew/Clayton. And the boy at the creamery ran out of things to say to me as I waited for numerous hard-shakes. Subways lines didn’t seem to bug me as long as I could get a six-inch turkey on wheat bread. And Smart Waters were scattered all over my room (Can I even claim being addicted to water? Maybe just consuming the bottles?)

SIX: Freshmen fifteen… or twenty… or twenty five……… ??? I understand. The meal cards made it all too easy; I don't know how it didn't happen.

SEVEN: It served as another excuse to not do my homework. When I wanted a break from homework Kelsie and I visited the creamery for a raspberry chocolate shake.

***The meal card became a crutch for me to depend. And now I’m in summer semester, and I’m missing this crutch in my life and am living a slightly less fattening life. Except for yesterday, when I needed a hard-shake.

75 days.

PdBio 120= Chemistry.

PdBio 120 is my first real exposure to biology; I took human biology my freshman year in high school, but I would hardly call that "real". So far I've learned a lot about… Chemistry. My book titled: Biological Science reads, "Chemists had worked out the structure of nucleotides and knew that DNA polymerized through the formation of phosphodiester linkages" (62). I also learned Chemists, Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry for showing that ribozymes exist in organisms. These are just two specific examples out of the many I have read about in my biology book. Chemists created biology, I think. I think it's the master science… I think this is why I'm majoring in chemistry.