Finally. Results.

Have you ever thought about how much crap you had to do as a kid? I don't mean cleaning your room or making your bed. If you run over all of the things you had to do just your last year of school, it is insane. Now multiply that by 12. About a billion and two math problems. 25 of the most pathetic worthless posters the world has ever seen. How is that even a requirement? I understand reading and writing, but production of posters? Which only really takes a printer and google images? And speaking of writing, how many essays have you had to write? I printed of all of my essays from my 12th grade English class alone and it was about an inch thick (not including the multiple drafts of each).

It gets kind of ridiculous kind of quick.

But apparently it pays off.

This week I've started to see the results of all those late nights. I suppose I should have been satisfied getting into what may be the sweetest university on the face of the planet. That counts as a result for sure, but it didn't seem like it was quite worth it, especially considering the amount of cash I could have made (thats right, made, as in profit) if I went somewhere like Snow.

My AP test scores appeared on my BYU transcript a week ago. As many of you know, I took 4 tests senior year: European History, Art History, Calculus AB, and Literature. I got fives on all of those besides Art History, which was a solid four. Honestly if I had gotten a five on the Art History test I would have lost all faith in the system as I took one of my essays and just wrote a note to the grader demanding that they demand a raise for working so dang hard.

Needless to say, I am well pleased.

What this amounts to is a grand total of 28 credit hours to BYU when you throw in my concurrent enrollment credit from my english class. That class alone got me 9 credit hours, which is more than I am taking right now.

As if that wasn't sweet enough I also got a scholarship today! My dad's company, IM Flash Technologies, offers a scholarship for their workers dependents. I applied three or four months ago and forgot all about it. I got a call this morning at 8:40 from IMFT which I promptly hung up without answering as I went to bed about 5 hours previously. I woke up and hopped in the shower at 10:35, got out and saw that I had missed yet another call. Then I missed a call in the middle of my New Testament class. Epic fail, until I finally answered at which point it became an Epic Win!

Critiques

I saw a sweet mind bending movie called Memento last week. It is one of Christopher Nolan's earliest films. It follows a man who has short term memory loss, which he gained (spoiler alert) trying to save his wife who was killed...among other things. Nolan shows the movie backwards, with the first scene showing how the linear story ends. This play on time continuum makes you feel as disoriented as the protagonist is. I highly recommend it edited, as it has some very R rated language. Very, very R rated language.

Also, just finished the first season of the Walking Dead. Its essentially a zombie apocalypse show, but it was actually super high quality. The acting is brilliant and the story is gripping from the start. The most interesting part is watching the different characters react to the challenges they face as they develop. It is, however not for the easily upset. As a zombie apocalypse series, the violence is particularly gruesome and there is a bit of what we shall henceforth refer to as "bingo." Yes, I stole that from Atwood. Deal with it.