Inventory

The questions for this blog post are: What did you find better then you anticipated; what is one aspect of school you found harder; and if you could change one part of your experience at BYU what would it be.

Well, when I first thought about the first question I found it difficult to answer. I was so busy prior to coming to BYU (being on a different continent for August, and then moving the day I got back) that I hadn't really the time or inclination to anticipate anything. I suppose the only thing you could say is that there are certain things that I think are better here then in other universities. One of those things is how close together everything is on campus. I do have a 30 minute walk onto campus in the morning (and back in the evening) but my friends that go to university back home in B.C. could spend 30 minutes walking between classes! I didn't, when choosing classes, how close everything is on campus.

For the second question I suppose that it'd have to do with the reading that is involved in university classes. I didn't realize until I saw my syllabuses, how many pages of reading I'd have to do each day. I have to read chapters every week for Political Sciences, a half hour of Book of Mormon everyday, the New York Times everyday (which can take a really long time), a chapter of Physical Sciences three times a week. And that's on top of studying and essays...


Last paragraph. What would I change about my experience at BYU? Well, I sure wish I had less work to do during the day. Work like doing this blogpost actu

Adventures in Zoobieland

What exactly is Zoobieland? 

My adventure was quite an adventure. It did not involve anything Zoobieing nor did it take place in Zoobieland. It took place on BYU campus.

I was planning to meet up with Ran and Kyle, but I miss-communicated and ended up missing them by about an hour. So I did my exploring in the library (yes, how original). On the fourth floor I did find something rather interesting, a really cool poster that I know want to buy. It's the Wave of Peace poster, by and LDS professor in 1985, in commemeration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Incidentally, I'm half-Japanese and have actually been to Hiroshima, and the Hiroshima Peace Museum and Memorial. Anyways, as well as travelling through the upper reaches of the library I also hit up the lower levels of the library. Can't say I found anything that terribly interesting. Finally I headed over to the Spencer W Kimball Towers and headed for the next to top floor (the top floor takes a pass key to get to). I looked around, didn't find anything (just classrooms and stuff) and then headed back down.

I wish I had dressed up the Mauser Statue instead...

Bloch Talk

For this assignment we were asked to look at the painting by Carl Bloch, Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda. What was struck me that most about this painting was how little people seemed to care about Christ. In particular, the man in the red hat seems disinterested in Christ even though he seems to be waiting to be healed by the pool. In fact, he is on the edge of the pool, seemingly waiting to jump in at the first sign of a ripple (in order to be healed) when it is in fact only by coming unto Christ that he will be healed. I take this as a sort of metaphor for the world. That we rely on other objects and fancies to 'heal' us when all we have to do is rely on Christ.

The question that was asked in assignment was who do I most resemble? I would have to say that I most resemble the child. The child in the painting looks interested in what Christ is doing but also somewhat mystified by it all. I feel that as lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I am aware of the atonement of Christ but I sometimes fail to take advantage of all the benefits of it.