On the sixth day of Christmas...

If you're reading this, it's because I'm in Dallas watching BYU play Tulsa in the Armed Forces Bowl! (Front Row!!!) Too busy to post anything.  :)  Happy New Year!

A Merry Christmas From My Professors!

Who could be sad with a 3.88 GPA this semester?  I did better than I thought I would this semester.  There must have been some adjusting of grade cutoffs at the end of the semester, because I did so much better than I thought I should have.

This week has been awesome!  Good grades are good news.  I'm looking forward to an entire year of saying, "Double Deuce" when asked about my age.  And I got to spend most of the week with an awesome friend.  And I've learned a lot from her, even though she didn't intend to teach me anything.  I don't really know how to explain it, except for that I felt more gentlemanly this week.  Maybe it's because I'm 22 now.  But I think I've proven to myself that I actually could be normal around girls.  Well, somewhat normal.  And that I can still be myself and people won't think that I'm that weird.

Now I've talked myself in circles.  Merry Christmas everybody.

No more finals!

Well, now I can only pray that the graders will be nice.  Especially for O-Chem.  I really just want to keep my scholarship, though I know that if I don't, it isn't the end of the world.

And that's pretty much been life for the last week.  Studying, worrying about finals, sitting in the testing center, being exhausted, even though I didn't physically do a whole lot.  That still boggles me sometimes.

Believe it or not, I saw miracles this week in the testing center.  On every test, I sat, and stared, and sat, and stared some more, and just couldn't think of the right answer.  Then, suddenly, something would come to my mind.  Enlightenment!  Honestly, it was like a light bulb turning on in my head.  Totally reminds of me this scripture in John.  I know that there is no way I could have ever come up with some of those answers on my own.  But someone is looking out for me.

The magic shows I do are like this, but not quite.

In other news, I get to do two more magic shows this week at Diamond Fork Junior High School.  It's going to be super awesome!  If I could support a family during chemistry outreach, or whatever this is called, then I would have a dream job.

GKTAEF Update

The winners of Round 1 of the GKTAEF tournament have been selected. Click on the link above to see who moved on.

Something Interesting

Here we go...

Well, I'm trying to post interesting things, and this something isn't that the GKTAEF is advancing a round tomorrow.

The last day of class for the semester.  I think I'm actually going to miss my Book of Mormon class.  Sister Johnson was such a wonderful teacher, bringing in insights like I've never experienced.  Hopefully my experience with the New Testament will be similarly enlightening.

I'll also miss Dr. Bergeson's wonderful lectures about Physics.  I actually understood it this time around.  And that's good, since I'll be using a lot of this in my other classes later on.

Interestingly enough, my chemistry classes are the ones I'll miss the least.  As much as I love Dr. Savage, and as much as I'll still have him next semester, I wish I didn't have to take O-Chem.  It really is hard to keep things straight in my mind.  But that's probably my fault.  I'm also glad the stress of Chem 113 is over.  But I had tons of fun in there.

Well, I wish I could let you in on my secret, but I can't.  Get a hold of me and ask, if you really want to know.  And I might maybe tell you.

College Football and Finals

Front Row Tickets!

College football is coming to an end.  BYU's last game of the regular season is this week, along with a bunch of conference championships.  Needless to say, I'll be making my selections for the GKTAEF tournament this weekend.  Check the GKTAEF tab above for updates on how that's going for me.

I think that the most exciting about the bowl games this year is that I'm actually going to one for the first time.  Yes, I'll be at the Armed Forces Bowl watching BYU play some sweet football against a team from Conference USA.  And yes, I'll be on row 1.  It's going to be awesome!

The potential 2012 GKTAEF trophy

I've also been working on a trophy that I will probably send to the team that wins my tournament.  Check it out.

Anyway, only 2 weeks until the end of finals.  Whoo-hoo! [Insert jokes about students being the only group of consumers that doesn't want a high quality in what they pay for here.]